The Gold Coast Branch offers three awards as follows:
1. Isobel Taylor Award – Griffith University Gold Coast Campus – highest achieving female teaching graduate
2. Sybil AM Vise Award – Bond University – Community Leadership
3. Vivienne Cowlishaw-Shortell award – Griffith University Gold Coast Campus – awarded to a first year student with excellent academic results who is experiencing financial hardship.
2025 Awardees
Recipient of the Sybil Vise Award 2025
Jody Lee Fiyic
Presented at the Executive Dean’s Awards
Bond University by Dianne Cecil
Faculty of Society and Design
2024 Awardees
The Sybil A M Vise Award, Bond University
Molly Swanson Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Policy and Economics. In 2025 she will be working as an Associate to a Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland.
The Vivienne Cowlishaw-Shortell Scholarship
Grace Gavin, Bachelor of Social Work. Working in the field of Mental Health either in the Community or with the Human Rights Commission.