The Fellowship
The Jack Hobbs McConnell Travelling Fellowship was established in 2007 following a bequest from his estate. His Executors and close associates established that his intention was to provide funding to promising young designers, who might expect in due course to practice in South Australia, to support an independent study tour or formal program of post graduate education, most likely overseas.
Applicants must be recent graduates from one of the recognised architecture programs in South Australia.
Academic merit, while relevant, is not to be the sole criterion for selection. Applicants will submit a folio of design work which may include advanced student projects and work undertaken in practice. The potential of the applicants to increase their understanding and skill in architecture and design through travel and experience is fundamental to the aims of the Fellowship.
The Fellowship is administered by a committee of three members working in association with Institute staff. The three current committee members are the Chapter President, Immediate past president and a third distinguished member as appointed by the Council of the SA Chapter of the Institute.
The Fellowship may not necessarily be awarded annually and is affected by the quality of applications and available funds. The value of each Fellowship, within an upper limit determined from time to time after considering inflation and earnings of the fund, will be agreed on by the Committee, having regard for the proposed project and likely cost to the Applicant.
It is recognised that for some Applicants, work and/or family commitments may preclude extended absence from their employment and that modern travel and communications permit useful professional experience projects of short duration.
A longer period involving overseas work experience with periods of travel could be considered. Others may have gained entry into a post graduate university program of one or more years.
On completion of the Fellowship the Recipient will be expected to disseminate the outcomes through a Journal and a lecture to Institute members.