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Frederick Leftwich


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MSc Human Rights
London School of Economics
2018 Roberta Sykes LSE Scholar
2018 Chevening Scholar
2017 ​Aurora Study Tour


Fred is a proud Aboriginal man from the Butchulla, Kuku Yalanji and Doomadgee communities and is also of Vanuatu heritage.  As a Roberta Sykes LSE Scholar, he has completed a MSc Human Rights from the London School of Economics in 2019.  He also holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Indigenous Studies from the University of Canberra. 

Fred spent 27 years in public service before pursuing studies as a mature age student.  He aspires to become a writer of Indigenous historic and current events. 


Articles

UC scholarship recipient sets sights on shared sovereignty, University of Canberra, August 2018

Time for a House of First Nations for Aboriginal Australians, Sydney Morning Herald, Fred Leftwich, August 2017

Family history research success for Fred, AIATSIS, August 2017
I just want to say to future potential students that it is possible and achievable.  If you are committed and apply yourself totally you will come through the other side a winner. I think the secret is to adopt a 'project management' approach to the study.  It is a full-time job but if you treat it like a full-time job you will learn and achieve.

I find I am learning much more in lectures and seminars (tutorials) and I have become much more analytical and academically critical in my writing. It is a higher standard and I am learning a lot but most importantly I feel for the first time like a genuine academic. 

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