Borrin Fellows and Recipients of Awards & Scholarships
Learn more below about the people we fund and the work and study they are pursuing through our Fellowships, Scholarships and Travel and Learning Awards.
Borrin Foundation Justice Fellows
Borrin Foundation Justice Fellow Elizabeth Hall
Elizabeth Hall is a Borrin Foundation Justice...
Borrin Foundation Justice Fellow Michelle Zang
Michelle Zang is a Borrin Foundation Justice...
Borrin Foundation Justice Fellow Jennifer Braithwaite: Access to Justice for Children and Young People in Aotearoa New Zealand
Jennifer Braithwaite is the inaugural Borrin Foundation Justice Fellow. She will be exploring children and young people’s access to justice in Aotearoa with a focus on identifying the barriers children and young people experience through mixed-methods research including interviews with key stakeholders and focus groups with children and young people.
Borrin Foundation Women Leaders in Law Fellows
Women Leaders in Law Fellow Lili Song
This Fellowship is supporting Lili to examine various aspects of Aotearoa New Zealand's refugee law.Lili's plan Lili will use the fellowship to...
Woman Leaders in Law Fellow Christina Pikiuha-Billing
This Fellowship is supporting Christina to pursue a Postgraduate Diploma in Bioethics and Health Law (PGDipBHL), and a Master of Bioethics and...
Women Leaders in Law Fellow Iris Reuvecamp
This Fellowship is supporting Iris to produce a comprehensive text on public health law in New Zealand.Iris's plan Iris intends to use this...
Women Leaders in Law Fellow Marnie Lloydd
This Fellowship is supporting Marnie to pursue the Women’s Leadership Development Programme offered by the University of Oxford and study towards...
Women Leaders in Law Fellow Helen Dervan
Helen Dervan is one of the inaugural Borrin Foundation Women Leaders in Law Fellows. She will be examining prudential regulation and proposed reforms to the Reserve Banks’s legislative and institutional framework as part of completing a PhD thesis on prudential regulation in Aotearoa New Zealand through Melbourne University.
Women Leaders in Law Fellow Natalie Pierce
Natalie Pierce is one of the inaugural Borrin Foundation Women Leaders in Law Fellows. The Fellowship is supporting Natalie to complete her Masters in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford (New College).
Borrin Foundation – Community Law Fellows
Community Law Fellow Dhilum Nightingale
Supporting Dhilum to examine employer accountability in relation to migrant exploitation within Aotearoa New Zealand. Dhilum's plan Dhilum’s...
Community Law Fellow Sarah Barnaart
Sarah is one of the inaugural Borrin Foundation – Community Law Fellows. The Fellowship is supporting her to undertake a Master of Leadership for Development offered by the University of Melbourne.
Community Law Fellow Sarah Croskery-Hewitt
Sarah is one of the inaugural Borrin Foundation – Community Law Fellows. She is exploring the intersection of immigration law and family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. She hopes to identify current gaps in protections for migrant women and to formulate proposals for reform of immigration policy.
Community Law Fellow Digby Livingston
Digby is one of the inaugural Borrin Foundation – Community Law Fellows. He is examining the current situation of prisoner pay rates in Aotearoa New Zealand compared to jurisdictions overseas, to explore the feasibility of increasing prisoner pay rates.
Borrin Foundation – Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Postgraduate Scholarship Recipients
Borrin Foundation – Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Postgraduate Scholarship for Yasmin Olsen
Yasmin is pursuing a LLM AT Yale University in Connecticut, USA. Yasmin hopes to play a part in criminal justice reform to develop a system that...
Borrin Foundation – Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Postgraduate Scholarship for Rachael Evans
Rachael is pursuing PhD in Law at the University of Canterbury. Rachael’s PhD will investigate how iwi can fully exercise their rangatiratanga...
Borrin Foundation – Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Postgraduate Scholarship for Holly Reynolds
Holly is pursuing a LLM in the USA. Holly is working towards a career in academia where she hopes to contribute towards transformative change that...
Borrin Foundation – Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Postgraduate Scholarship for Maryann Panoho
Maryann is pursuing a Masters of Indigenous Law and Policy at the University of Arizona, USA. Maryann wants to work towards ensuring Aotearoa is a...
Borrin Foundation – Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Postgraduate Scholarship for Gabriella Makerita Hinetu Brayne
Gabriella is pursuing a Masters of Indigenous Law and Policy at the University of Arizona, USA. Gabriella hopes to return to Aotearoa to work in...
Borrin Foundation – Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Postgraduate Scholarship for Zachary Katene
Zachary Katene is one of the inaugural Borrin Foundation - Ngā Pae o te Māramantanga Postgraudate scholarship recipients. Zachary is pursuing a...
Borrin Foundation – Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Postgraduate Scholarship for Ben Morgan
Ben Morgan is one of the inaugural Borrin Foundation - Ngā Pae o te Māramantanga Postgraudate scholarship recipients. Ben is pursuing an LLM in the...
Borrin Foundation Travel and Learning Award Recipients
Travel and Learning Award for Helen Mackay
Supporting Helen Mackay to conduct a study tour of Australia and the UK, to explore leading practice NewLaw developments and to bring these insights...
Travel and Learning Award for Anna Marie Brennan
Supporting Anna Marie Brennan to travel to Holland to spend six weeks’ conducting research at the TMC Asser Institute for International Law and The...
Travel and Learning Award for Natasha Lewis
Supporting Natasha Lewis to attend two international conferences on ageing and meet policymakers and researchers on ageing policy in the UK and...
Travel and Learning Award for Mihiata Pirini
Supporting Mihiata Pirini to learn about indigenous law research, method, and practice in Canada and share her learnings with Māori law academics...
Travel and Learning Award for Hon Justice Matthew Palmer
Supporting Justice Matthew Palmer to Travel to Oxford and Paris to research and write an article about the reasonable use of unreasonableness at...
Travel and Learning Award for Vinod Bal
Supporting Vinod Bal to travel overseas to explore strategic and public interest litigation in pursuance of LGBT+ rights realisation. Vinod's plan...
Travel and Learning Award for Olivia Klinkum
Supporting Olivia Klinkum to complete the remainder of her year-long position as a Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court....
Travel and Learning Award for Sam Campbell
Supporting Sam Campbell to Travel to Paris and Stockholm to establish networks and build connections in academia, UN agencies, non-governmental...
Travel and Learning Award for Selina Trigg
Supporting Selina Trigg to travel to Copenhagen in June 2023 to attend the International Surrogacy Forum and meet with other surrogacy professionals...
Travel and Learning Award for Oliver Skinner
Supporting Oliver Skinner to travel to Toronto, Canada to attend the North American Indigenous Studies Association conference to make connections...
Travel and Learning Award for Nicola Taylor
Supporting Professor Nicola Taylor to present a paper at the International Society of Family Law Conference in Antwerp, to spend time working with...
Travel and Learning Award for Drew Buckley
Supporting Drew Buckley to attend the Innocence Network Conference and visit the California Innocence Project and engage with other organisations....
Travel and Learning Award for Lida Ayoubi
Supporting Lida Ayoubi to attend the 2023 International Disability Law Summer School, organised by the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway...
Travel and Learning Award for Aaron Te Koha
Supporting Aaron Te Koha to travel to the Hague and bring back lessons about the function, mechanisms, laws, and the trial process within...
Travel and Learning Award for Nerida Kennedy
Supporting Nerida Kennedy to attend the international LGBTQ Leaders Conference in Washington DC 2022 and take learnings from the wide range of...
Travel and Learning Award for David Jefferson
Supporting David Jefferson to travel to Australia for a period of four weeks in 2023 to network with colleagues whose research focusses on the...
Travel and Learning Award for Trevor Daya-Winterbottom
Supporting Trevor Daya-Winterbottom to travel to Europe (England, Finland, Spain, and Wales) to build networks for academic research and present...
Travel and Learning Award for Bianka Atlas
Supporting Bianka Atlas to travel to Portland, Oregon in November 2022 to attend the 30th annual Animal Law Conference (ALC) and to re-connect with...
Travel and Learning Award for Jamie-Lee Tuuta
Supporting Jamie-Lee Tuuta to travel to Orlando, Florida to attend the 23rd Annual IACP Forum to further her learning and understanding of...
Travel and Learning Award for Luke Fitzmaurice
Supporting Luke Fitzmaurice to travel to his tūrangawaewae in the far north to learn more about his own whakapapa and about the tikanga of Te Hiku,...
Travel and Learning Award for Metiria Stanton Turei
Supporting Metiria Stanton Turei to explore how legal information is represented in visual images, and to share the findings at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference.
Travel and Learning Award for Ronji Tanielu
Supporting Ronji Tanielu to explore innovative and effective models, programmes and organisations working to improve access to justice and legal supports in different parts of the world.
Travel and Learning Award for Myra Williamson
Supporting Myra to participate in online professional development courses through the Advance HE Senior Fellowship programme and the Harvard University Women in Education Leadership programme.
Travel and Learning Award for Anna High
Supporting Anna to attend an online professional development course on mindfulness awareness from UCLA to further explore the use of mindfulness in the legal profession.
Travel and Learning Award for Marozane Spamers
Supporting Marozane to attend the International Academy of Law and Mental Health Conference in 2022 in Lyon, France.
Travel and Learning Award for Julia Whaipooti
Supporting a talented Māori criminal justice reform leader to attend an Oxford conference.