They are both recipients of the 2018 Sue Napier Scholarships in Education, announced at the Newnham campus on Monday.

Mr Glancy is a first-year health and physical education student who said receiving the scholarship meant his mum wouldn’t need to work so much to provide him to live away from home.

“It means a lot to me, and my family, that I have received this scholarship,” he said.

Mr Glancy said he had always had a passion for sport and physical education and had enjoyed his first year.

“There is a bit of a misconception that [the degree] is just about playing sport all day, but it’s much more than that, and I’m glad it wasn’t just like that,” he said.

Ms Cashion took out the Sue Napier Postgraduate Fellowship in Education after graduating in 2017.

“It is an honour to be the recipient of the postgraduate fellowship in education for 2018. Sue Napier was an exceptional female leader who championed the rights of many and fought tirelessly for individuals, particularly for those with a significant disadvantage,” Miss Cashion said.

Postgraduate scholarship recipient Rebekka Walden-Baur, also from Blackmans Bay, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2017, majoring in Sociology. She is currently enrolled in her first year of the Master of Teaching in Hobart.

The scholarships were founded by the family of the late Sue Napier and the University of Tasmania to honour the former politician.

Ms Napier was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in Bass from 1992-2006. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008 and recovered in 2009. 

However, she announced she would not contest the 2010 election after she discovered the cancer had returned. She died in August 2010.

Sue Napier’s son James, who sits on the selection committee for the scholarships, said it was humbling to know his mother’s legacy lived on through the awards.

“Mum always wanted to make the world brighter, and a better place,” he said.

He said it took the family about 10 minutes to decide to establish the awards when he received the phone call offer from then-Premier David Bartlett.

“It’s very humbling,” he said.

The awards are a testament to his mother’s character and Mr Napier said he believed she would have been extremely proud of the recipients.

“She would have loved to have been here today.”

The Tasmanian government, through the Department of Education, funded the Sue Napier Scholarship in Education, which is awarded to a Bachelor of Education student and a Master of Teaching student each year.

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