Award winning Higher School Certificate Personal Interest Projects (PIPs), 2021

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2021

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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 2021

Grace Bu (Willoughby Girls High School)
The L word: Heteronormativity is enforced by the patriarchal and male chauvinist institutional structures underlying society

Yuna Chung (Willoughby Girls High School)
In business to change the world

Isabella Fung (Hunter School of the Performing Arts)
This is Australia. Speak English: An investigation into the construction, perpetuation, and ramifications of Australia's monolingual attitude through the hypothesis: "Australia's dominant culture of monolingualism is driving the decline in acquisition of languages other than English, thereby perpetuating Anglo superiority and exclusion of non-Anglo individuals"

Lucinda Johnston (Lindfield Learning Village)
The drover...and his wife: The exclusion of women from Australian national identity

Olivia Kelly (All Saints' Catholic school, Casula)
The real housewives: A sociological investigation into the continuity of household gender role stereotypes and how this has subsequently perpetuated the female mental load

Kushi Leggo (Willoughby Girls High School)
What's the catch? Blackfishing: The rise of digital technologies has developed concepts of black fishing which contributes to existing prejudices against peoples of colour, thus further perpetuating social exclusion"

Latisha Lightowler (Clancy Catholic College, West Hoxton)
R.I.P. Rest in perpetuity: An investigation into the extent to which the socio-cultural construction of death has been altered by communication technologies. Is the changing nature of grief and memorialisation accepted or rejected by contemporary adolescents?

Sophie Loiselle (Merewether High School)
Feminism? In this economy?: An investigation into how neoliberalism compliments Australian ideology and identity to undermine feminism

Crystal Wan (Willoughby Girls High School)
Queerbaiting is the hook that lures out the LGBTQI+

Rosalie Wilson (Trinity Catholic College, Lismore)
Born to buy: An investigation into how the advertisement industry reinforces society's masculine ideals to perpetuate a capitalist, consumer-based reality

Jade Yee-Smith (Willoughby Girls High School)
A beginner's guide on the word: 'Feminist': Feminism continues to be a heavily contested ideology, with the perpetuation of negative mythology and widening dissent

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