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Bronwyn
Bronwyn is a Welsh feminine given name, a variant of the mostly feminine version Bronwen/ Branwen, literally meaning "White Raven (or Crow)" or, abstractly, "White Breast" (from ''bran'', raven, and ''bron'' ("breast") and 'g'''wen'' ("white, fair, blessed)".''Behind the Name''"Given Name Bronwen" Retrieved on 22 January 2016. Because the suffix ''-wyn'' is grammatically masculine in Welsh, Bronwyn is a spelling generally only used for female names in the English-speaking world outside Wales. The name may refer to: People *Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958), Australian artist *Bronwyn Bishop (born 1942), Australian politician *Bronwyn Calver (born 1969), Australian cricketer *Bronwyn Drainie (born 1945), Canadian journalist * Bronwyn Eagles (born 1980), Australian athlete *Bronwyn Eyre (born 1971), Canadian provincial politician *Bronwyn Halfpenny (born 1963), Australian politician * Bronwyn Hayward, New Zealand political scientist *Bronwyn Hill (born 1960), British civil servant *Bronw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Bishop
Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop (née Setright; born 19 October 1942) is an Australian former politician. She was a member of federal parliament for almost 30 years, the longest period of service by a woman. A member of the Liberal Party, she was a minister in the Howard Government from 1996 to 2001 and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015. Bishop was born in Sydney and worked as a lawyer before entering politics. She served as state president of the New South Wales Liberals from 1985 to 1987, and then won election to the Senate at the 1987 federal election. She became the state's second female senator and the first to be popularly elected. In 1994 Bishop switched to the House of Representatives, winning a by-election for the Division of Mackellar. She was a shadow minister under John Hewson, Alexander Downer, and John Howard. In 1996 Bishop was appointed Minister for Defence Industry, Science and Personnel in the newly elected Howard Government. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Davies
Bronwyn Davies is a fictional character from the Australian television soap opera ''Neighbours'', played by Rachel Friend. She made her first appearance during the episode broadcast on 7 July 1988. Bronwyn is the sister of Sharon Davies. Bronwyn fell in love with Henry Ramsay and when he left for New Zealand, she followed him not long after. Bronwyn departed on 22 February 1990. Casting After Kylie Minogue, who played Charlene Robinson, announced her departure, the serial's producers decided that they needed to replace her with a similar actress. They were planning to start a nationwide search when they discovered Rachel Friend. Friend was eighteen when she joined the cast, and she chose to postpone her university degree to play Bronwyn. Her casting was announced in June 1988, and she told a reporter for ''The Sun-Herald'', "I'm a bit overwhelmed by it all but I think I'm going to like working on ''Neighbours''." Friend was initially contracted to appear in a few episodes, but vie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Oliver
Bronwyn Joy Oliver (née Gooda, 22 February 1959 – 10 July 2006) was an Australian sculptor whose work primarily consisted of metalwork. Oliver was raised in rural New South Wales. She trained at Sydney's Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education and London's Chelsea School of Art. She had early success, winning a New South Wales Travelling Art Scholarship in 1981 and the Moet & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship in 1984. Oliver settled in Sydney, where she practised and taught until her death in 2006. Oliver's sculptures are admired for their tactile nature, aesthetics, and technical skills demonstrated in their production. In her later career, most of her pieces were both public and private commissions. Her major works include ''Vine'', a 16.5-metre-high sculpture in the Sydney Hilton, ''Magnolia'' and ''Palm'', in the Sydney Botanical Gardens, and ''Big Feathers'' in Brisbane's Queen Street Mall. Recognition of her work included selection as a finalist in the ina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Bancroft
Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958) is an Aboriginal Australian artist, and among the first Australian fashion designers invited to show her work in Paris. Born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, and trained in Canberra and Sydney, Bancroft worked as a fashion designer, and is an artist, illustrator, and arts administrator. In 1985, Bancroft established a shop called Designer Aboriginals, selling fabrics made by Aboriginal artists, including herself. She was a founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative. Art work by Bancroft is held by the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. She has provided art work for more than 20 children's books, including ''Stradbroke Dreamtime'' by writer and activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal, and books by artist and writer Sally Morgan. She has received design commissions, including one for the exterior of a sports centre in Sydney. Bancroft has a long history of involvement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Thompson
Bronwyn Thompson (born 29 January 1978 in Rockhampton, Australia) is a long jumper from Australia. She was the former Commonwealth record holder and holds the Australian record for the long jump. She has been ranked as high as number two in the world. Her greatest achievements include winning gold in the long jump at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and placing fourth at the 2004 Olympic Games. However Bronwyn has suffered numerous injury setbacks during her career and retired at the end of the 2008/09 Australian domestic season Bronwyn was born in Rockhampton as the youngest of four children and moved to her current home of Brisbane, Australia during primary school. As a child she excelled at both athletics and volleyball, but eventually chose to focus on athletics. She missed selection on the Australian team for the long jump at the 1996 World Junior Championships, which resulted in her decision to take a break from athletics and concentrate on her studies. After completing a deg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Hayward
Bronwyn Mary Hayward is a New Zealand political scientist. Her areas of research are democracy, sustainability and young people. She was a lead author on a United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report. Biography Hayward was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. She attended Christchurch Girls' High School and then moved to Dunedin to study at the University of Otago. She completed bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in political science and geography at Otago. Hayward has been Senior Visiting Fellow with the Sustainable Lives Research Group (University of Surrey) and from 2008 to 2011 was a visiting fellow at the Tyndall Centre for climate change research in East Anglia. She was a co-researcher at the University of Oslo on the Voices of the Future project, a study of young people growing up in a changing climate. She is also a Co-Primary Investigator for the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, University of Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Hill
Bronwyn Hill CBE (born 1960) is a former British civil servant, who served as the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Hill was born in Bradford in 1960 and educated at St Anthony's School and St Joseph's College, Bradford, and at Girton College, Cambridge, where she graduated with a degree in geography. She was appointed a CBE in the 2001 New Year Honours List. Hill joined the Greater London Council (GLC) in 1981, where she worked on transport planning policy. When the GLC was abolished in 1986, she moved to the Inner London Education Authority and then joined the Department of Transport (later the Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and then Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions) in 1988. Between 2005 and 2007, she was Regional Director at the Government Office for the South West before returning to what was now the Department for Transport. She was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Calver
Bronwyn Lianne Calver (born 22 September 1969 in Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria) is a former Australian cricketer who played as an all-rounder for the national team. She participated in two World Cups, in 1993 and in 1997, and was part of the winning team in the latter tournament. Early life Calver and her family moved from Broadmeadows to Canberra in 1980. After being alerted to cricket by a school flyer saying "Junior cricketers wanted", she started playing the game at the age of 11 in the 1980–81 season. On some weekends in the early 1980s, she would participate in a junior boys' game and in lower-grade men's cricket on the Saturday, and then take part in the schoolgirls' and senior women's competitions on the Sunday. For about seven years, Calver played in women's cricket matches alongside her mother, Beverley. In 1981, the two of them even co-opted her then 69 year old grandmother, Lily, who did not have a cricket background, to make up the numbers and avoid a forfei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Law-Viljoen
Bronwyn Law-Viljoen is a South African writer, editor, publisher and professor. She is the co-founder of the publisher Fourthwall Books and owns a bookstore called Edition. She acts as the primary editor for works on law and history of South Africa and the architecture and building process of its constitutional court structures, along with artistic book publications of the work of William Kentridge. She has also published her own novel called ''The Printmaker''. Education Law-Viljoen has an MA degree (1994) from Rhodes University in South Africa, a PhD in Literature (2003) from New York University and a PhD in Creative Writing (2017) from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Career Author Law-Viljoen's first novel, ''The Printmaker'', was published in 2016 (Umuzi/Penguin Random House). It was shortlisted for the premier fiction prize in South Africa for the ''Sunday Times'' Barry Ronge Fiction Award, and won the 2018 English Academy of South Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Labrum
Bronwyn Labrum is a New Zealand cultural historian and author. Labrum was born and raised in Whanganui, and attended Whanganui High School. She received a BA Hons and M.A. in history at Massey University, and was deputy editor of the student magazine ''Chaff''. She graduated with a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington in 2000. Labrum worked as curator of history and textiles at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, and was an associate professor in the School of Design at Massey University as well as teaching history at the University of Waikato. From 2016 she was the head of New Zealand and Pacific Cultures at Te Papa. She then joined Canterbury Museum to lead special projects. In December 2020 she was appointed Director of the Whanganui Regional Museum, to start in February 2021. Labrum's 2015 book ''Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand'' ''in the 1950s and 1960s'' was shortlisted for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Published works * ''R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Lea
Bronwyn Lea is a contemporary Australian poet, academic and editor. Biography Born in Tasmania, Lea grew up in Queensland and Papua New Guinea, moving to San Diego to study at California State University. She completed a PhD titled "The way into stone; To dwell in possibility: Social roles of the poet" at University of Queensland (UQ) in 2005 and as of 2021 is a full professor and head of the School of Communication and Arts at UQ. She was a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council from 2005–2008. Lea appeared in two events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Published works Poetry * ''The Deep North: A selection of poems'' (George Braziller, 2013) *''The Other Way Out''. ( Giramondo Publishing, 2008) * ''The Wooden Cat and Other Poems''. (Picaro P, 2003) * ''Flight Animals''. ( University of Queensland Press, 2001) Series Editor (with Martin Duwell) * '' The Best Australian Poetry''. University of Queens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Drainie
Bronwyn Drainie (born 1945) is a Canadian arts journalist. She was the editor-in-chief of the ''Literary Review of Canada'' from 2003 to 2015. ''Literary Review of Canada'', 2017 She has also been a columnist and book reviewer for ''''. Drainie served as a host of programming on , including the flagship program '' Sunday Morning''. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
