Mind established the Stratford Scholarship and lecture to honour the late Anthony Stratford’s immense contribution to the lived experience movement.
Each year, Mind offers a $10,000 scholarship for an emerging Peer leader or small group of peers within Australia to complete a 12-month project that contributes to innovation and transformational change to support the mental health and wellbeing of people in their own and the broader community.
The 2025 Stratford Scholarship is currently closed. The next EOI intake will likely be early 2026, sign up to Mind View to make sure you’re in the know.
Anthony Stratford’s legacy
Mind Australia established this annual scholarship in 2024 to honour the late Anthony Stratford’s immense contribution to the lived experience movement.
The Stratford Scholarship builds on his leadership legacy and the legacy of consumers and family/carer Lived Experience leaders who have gone before us and in whose footsteps we walk.
2024 Recipients
The inaugural successful candidate of the 2024 Stratford Scholarship was Mush McLoughlan (they/them). Mush is a psych survivor who is exploring non-pathologising responses to suicide.
You can read more about their project here.
2025 Recipient
The 2025 Stratford Scholarship recipients KJ Hepworth and Tabitha Lean will develop a peer-led, free digital mental health resource based on the Surviving Cramond zine KJ made and distributed during their medical incarceration.
If you have any questions about the Stratford Scholarship, please email [email protected]