{"id":84983,"date":"2022-11-15T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T13:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=84983"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:18","slug":"carleton-student-awarded-2023-rhodes-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2022\/carleton-student-awarded-2023-rhodes-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Student Awarded 2023 Rhodes Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Student Awarded 2023 Rhodes Scholarship\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Public Affairs and Policy Management student
heading to Oxford to pursue master’s<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Carleton Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management<\/a> student Maeve Collins-Tobin has become the university’s 7th Rhodes scholar. Valued at more than $100,000, the Rhodes Scholarship<\/a> is one of the most prestigious in the world, covering the cost of postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford in the U.K., and Collins-Tobin is one of only 11 students from across Canada selected to receive the award.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“This is a tremendous recognition of Maeve’s academic excellence and community engagement,” says Carleton’s President and Vice Chancellor, Benoit-Antoine Bacon. “Maeve is challenging practices that affect the ways we govern and impact the Earth. I look forward to see how she will tackle these challenges and create positive change at Oxford and beyond. Congratulations Maeve!”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Originally from Newfoundland, Collins-Tobin is keenly interested in migration and climate change, including being a climate change activist in the Carleton community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maeve Collins-Tobin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“We are incredibly proud of Maeve Collins-Tobin, who has received one of the greatest distinctions in academia,” said Brenda O’Neill, Dean, Faculty of Public Affairs<\/a> (FPA) at Carleton. <\/p>\n\n\n

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“Maeve’s dedication to public policy, international relations, migration, refugee studies, and climate change reflects the mission of FPA to build a better society, better democracy, and address regional and global challenges. Maeve is the latest in a long line of FPA graduates who are making a difference in the world. We wish her every success at Oxford.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Collins-Tobin is completing her final semester of a Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management, specializing in international relations and conflict. She looks forward to studying both a MSc. in Forced Migration and Refugee studies, and a MSc. in Global Governance and Diplomacy at Oxford, focusing on climate change. She hopes to work supporting informed and just policymaking in her future career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scholarships recognize a commitment to timeless virtues\u2014intellectual excellence, strength of character, energy to strive, commitment to serve and instinct to lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Contact<\/strong>
\nSteven Reid (he\/him)
\nMedia Relations Officer
\nCarleton University
\n613-265-6613
\nSteven.Reid3@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Public Affairs and Policy Management studentheading to Oxford to pursue master’s Carleton Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management student Maeve Collins-Tobin has become the university’s 7th Rhodes scholar. Valued at more than $100,000, the Rhodes Scholarship is one of the most prestigious in the world, covering the cost of postgraduate studies at the University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":84991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[88,93,94],"class_list":["post-84983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-awards","tag-faculty-of-public-affairs","tag-public-policy-and-administration"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85051,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84983\/revisions\/85051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}