Award winning Higher School Certificate Personal Interest Projects (PIPs), 2019

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The Personal Interest Project (PIP) is a compulsory section of the Higher School Certificate (HSC) Society and Culture course. The PIP can be up to 5,000 words and is worth 30% of the course for the HSC. It provides an opportunity for students to carry out guided social and cultural research in an area of personal interest.

The annual Society and Culture Awards are held under the auspices of the Society and Culture Association at the Mitchell Library. These awards acknowledge both excellence in the overall HSC examination for the ‘Top 10’ candidates and for excellence in the Personal Interest Project by acknowledging candidates who have achieved a High Distinction. Each recipient is given an individually engraved medal and in some cases a specific prize.

Award winning Personal Interest Projects for 2019

Mariam Arsalah (Willoughby Girls High School)
Beyond the helpless victim: The misrepresentation of Afghan women in mainstream media has constructed harmful stereotypes that perpetuate exclusionary perceptions of an oppressed passive gender.

Lily Kitteringham (Caringbah High School)
I am not a Feminist...But: An inquiry into the 'corruption' of feminism and if there is a need for a new title to continue purposeful discourse within the gender equality movement.

Zahra Kumarasinhe (Willoughby Girls High School)
Climate crisis? What climate crisis?: Climate change action has been paralysed by political and social denialism fuelled by ignorance, apathy and misinformation.

Scarlet Lennon (Central Coast Grammar)
Eat. Sleep. Gender binary. Repeat: An investigation into... Feminism's attempt to deconstruct the gender binary and norms of the domestic sphere.

Ella-Rose Liasides (Georges River College, Oatley Senior Campus)
The only fair is laissez-faire: An investigation into the repudiation of capitalism within the youth of western democracies.

Muir McLennan (Arndell Anglican College, Oakville)
Boys don't cry: How the shackles of the patriarchy restrict masculine expression and hinder gender inclusivity. An investigation into the currently limited gendered terrain and a false sense of liberation.

Mika Nakamura (Willoughby Girls High School)
We are the future: Despite the stereotypes of youth's shallow digital social and political engagement, young people are a highly socially and culturally aware generation.

Reid Quealy (Engadine High School)
Saving the day, the "gay" way!: An investigation into comic books' capacity to act as a powerful conduit for change with regards to the acceptance and inclusion of the LGBTQI+ community.

Marni Elizabeth Taylor (Engadine High School)
Appropriation and misuse of indigenous art: An investigation into how the appropriation and misuse of indigenous art affects the inclusion of Aboriginal peoples identity and culture in Australian society.

Georgia Topic (Willoughby Girls High School)
The perfect political persona: Politicians are increasingly utilising social media as a campaigning platform, bypassing traditional media sources and hence, threatening democractic principles.

Annie Touw (Pittwater High School)
Empowering voices for change: An investigation in the effects of media representations on the social inclusion and exclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia.

Karen Yoshimura (Willoughby Girls High School)
The sanitising of menstruation: An investigation into the social and cultural taboo of menstruation and its impact on gender identity in western society.

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Reference copies of all PIP papers are available in the SRL Reading Room