PhD Candidate Holly Sansone awarded the inaugural Dr Danielle Tindle Memorial Scholarship

Holly was awarded the inaugural Dr Danielle Tindle Memorial Scholarship this week for her PhD research
“Only a phone call away”: A Study of Telephone Calls to Queensland Paediatric Palliative Care Services”

 

About the scholarship

The Dr Danielle Tindle Memorial Scholarship was established to recognise the outstanding contribution of QUT PhD student Dr Danielle Tindle. Emeritus Professor Robert Tindle and Dr Elizabeth Tindle established the scholarship in memory of their daughter who died in 2017 from a rare neuroendocrine carcinoma following a cancer diagnosis in 2002.

Danielle’s cancer experience led her to devote her life to advocating for improved services and care for adolescent and young adult cancer patients. She was awarded a PhD from QUT in 2015 for her thesis ‘Creating meaning: the cancer survivorship experience of young adults in Australia, England and the United States’. Danielle expressed a wish that her work in this field be continued, leading to the establishment of the Dr Danielle Tindle Memorial Scholarship.

The $30,000 scholarship, to be awarded to one student annually, will allow QUT PhD students to further and enhance their work in cancer research. The scholarship supports current QUT PhD students undertaking research in the field of cancer care to further their career development by undertaking a program of research and study at notable national or international cancer research institutes or organisations.