Brittany Gittus is a proud resident of the Derwent Valley, Tasmania, who works as a Policy and Research Analyst at Tasmania’s Department of Premier and Cabinet. Brittany has worked on numerous projects for the department, including the operationalisation of the Foreign Relations Act and Tasmania’s Literacy Advisory Panel. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and Sociology from the University of Tasmania, with First Class Honours in History. She has also attended Oxford University’s ‘History, Politics and Society Summer School’, obtaining first class results. Brittany is passionate about mass atrocity prevention and assisting people from disadvantaged backgrounds to harness the transformative power of education. With her World Universities Ramsay Postgraduate Scholarship, Brittany will study for a Master of Studies in Modern European History at Oxford, focusing on Britain’s response to Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. Brittany intends to use her historical research to inform the way nations respond to events of mass atrocities.