01/07/2025
📢 I'm excited to announce the inaugural Casey-Cardinia High Schools Women’s Health Prize. This competition is open to all high school students in the City of Casey or Cardinia Shire Council in Victoria, Australia.
🗣️ The goal of the prize is to promote thought-provoking conversation in local adolescents about the health and wellbeing issues that affect women. The subject matter is to be on a women’s health issue from the unique point of view of high school students; we want to live a story through your lens. “Women’s health” is a broad term that encompasses physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of women. The term is not limited to physical health (puberty, body image, period health and so on) but also important topics like barriers to seeking care, gender inequity, gender-based aggression, impact social media, mental health, trauma and gender identity.
✍️ There will be two streams available for entry: (1) Written essay, and (2) Creative arts. The essay is to be a maximum of 1500 words (full details through link in Bio). Examples of creative arts pieces include physical medium (paintings, sculpture, drawings) or digital (digital art, social media videos, short film etc).
🏆 Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of women's health specialists (Dr Nisha Khot, .crowther, ). The prize up for grabs is $1500 for each stream. Winners will have the opportunity to present their work online and locally.
📅 Please find below the key dates for entry in 2025:
Registration opens: 1 July, 2025
Registration deadline: 30 August, 2025.
Submissions open: 1 September, 2025.
Submission deadline: 30 October, 2025.
Notification of short-list: 1, November, 2025.
Notifications of award recipients: 1 December, 2025.
🙌 Sign up online at https://drkiranatmuri.com.au/casey-cardinia-high-schools-womens-health-prize/
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