The AustMS has various scholarship and fellowship schemes, especially for students. Many of them are funded by a bequest of some description. Sometimes the conditions of the scholarships as specified by donors are not always compatible with equity of opportunity. The AustMS did not have a clear “official” statement of its guiding principles regarding equity, diversity and inclusivity that should apply to all of its awards, scholarships and so forth. I was asked to be part of a small committee to formulate such a set of principles. In a team of three Australian academics, we wrote the guiding principles that can now be found here

https://austms.org.au/awards-grants/

The document is attached.