New Horizons Fellows for 2025

Headshots of Nicola Redhouse and Sonia Jawaid Shaikh

Pictured: Ms Nicola Redhouse and  Dr Sonia Jawaid Shaikh

Congratulations to the two successful recipients of the 2025 New Horizons Fellow in Residence Program, which fosters education and research collaboration between the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences (MDHS).

Ms Nicola Redhouse’s project on the Pedagogy of Noticing will develop students’ reflective capacities using a creative writing technique adapted from psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion’s method of listening to patients.

Dr Sonia Jawaid Shaikh's fellowship project on Human-AI Interaction aims to develop an adaptable virtual interface which will be used to run experimental, qualitative, and simulation-based studies on human-AI interaction, teamwork, and decision-making in clinical settings.

The New Horizons Fellow in Residence program was inaugurated in 2025.

In 2025, two Arts Fellows will be hosted in the MDHS Collaborative Practice Centre, and in 2026, two MDHS Fellows will be hosted in the Faculty of Arts. Seed funding of $25,000 per Fellow is provided, and the Fellows work with the host faculty to define a program of work.

We envisage the connections and outputs resulting from this Fellowship will seed further cross-faculty collaboration opportunities such as guest lectures, conference presentations, joint courses, learning and teaching innovations, shared research collaborations, and shared PhD supervision.

For further information on the scheme, contact Professor Elizabeth Molloy, Deputy Dean Education, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, elizabeth.molloy@unimelb.edu.au or Professor Beth Driscoll, Deputy Dean Academic, Faculty of Arts, driscoll@unimelb.edu.au.