Berry Family Fellowship

The $15,000 Berry Family Fellowship supports a project exploring an aspect of the social history of Melbourne or Victoria, based on the State Collection.

The Berry Family Fellow receives a grant of $15,000, access to a desk space in a shared office at State Library Victoria for 12 months (January – December 2023), access to collections and staff expertise.

Offered biennially, the Berry Family Fellowship commemorates the contribution of the Berry Family to the cultural life of Melbourne and Victoria.

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Previous recipients

Explore our fellows gallery to learn more about the inspiring projects undertaken by past and present fellows.

• 2022: Ana Tiquia and Reanna Browne with the project After work, a five-part audio essay which explored the future of work through the voices of workers - past, present and future.
• 2018: Dominic Gordon with the project Disengagement, a collection of creative non-fiction essays thematically linked by a strong sense of disengagement and disillusionment with current society, focusing on the people who fall through the cracks.
• 2016: Guy Rundle and Jo Waite with the manuscript The Secret Life of Building X – The Lives, Works and Secrets of One Melbourne Commercial Building, which studied a Melbourne commercial building, using the Sands & McDougall directories, and revealed forgotten lives and vanished professions.
• 2014: Minna Muhlen-Schulte with the article and radio program Crossing enemy lines: German–Australian identity in wartime Victoria, which explored the complex relationship German–Australians have with their wartime past.  
• 2012: Stefan Schutt with the project Sign of the times, an online history project about signwriting firm Lewis & Skinner, which operated for 60 years in Footscray, along with the social history of the communities in which the signs were used.