Amy Galliford is an English and Sociology graduate from Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Advanced Studies from the University of Sydney for which she was named a Dalyell Scholar and included on the Dean’s List for academic merit. She has recently worked as a reporter for a church network and supported an author in the cultivation of ideas for his recent book on the art of persuasion. Whilst her current positions involve communications and creative strategy, Amy’s passion for ideas and language expresses itself through essay, poetry and song. With her World Universities Ramsay Postgraduate Scholarship, Amy will study a MPhil in Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge where she is keen to explore questions of free will, belief, meaning and purpose. In the future, Amy hopes to influence public thought through both intellectual and artistic avenues, illuminating the timeless truths most vital to our cultural moment.