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 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 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 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.