Imogen has an impressive list of accolades from her time at Sydney. In addition to achieving First Class Honours, she was awarded the University Medal, a Sydney Scholars Award, the Academic Merit Prize and placed on the Dean’s List, to name but a few.

“My lecturers and tutors were amazing. They were not only experts in their fields but were also extremely supportive of their students and poured a lot of work into our units of study. I owe them an enormous debt of gratitude for encouraging me to pursue further study.”

“We were encouraged to read widely and engage with global issues through a variety of media, to think deeply about the messy complexity of the world and how people have tried to understand or give meaning to that complexity in the past.”

Following graduation, Imogen worked in an education role at the Australian Human Rights Commission, delivering human rights training to schools, workplaces and other sections of the community. Prior to that, she worked as an educational content creator, writing interactive history lessons for high school students across Australia.

“I love working in education because it allows me to give back to my community. Many of the educational opportunities we take for granted—like learning to read and graduating from university—continue to be denied to people in Australia and around the world. I am fortunate to work in a space where I can use my own education to support the rights of all people to understand and engage fully with the world.”

“An arts degree teaches you to think for yourself, interpret information and communicate your ideas. These skills are at the heart of a diverse range of careers, but they’re critical to the work I do in education. To explain tricky concepts like history or human rights, you have to know your subject matter back to front. But you have to imagine not knowing it, too. This demands empathy and an acute sense of your own position in the world. I can’t imagine a degree that would’ve prepared me better for that task.”