Internship Period : 2023

Kate Mellett is a student of international studies from Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. She is a recipient of the prestigious New Colombo Plan Scholarship, an Australian Government initiative To understand the multifaceted security challenges facing Asia today, she first spent 6 months studying Himalayan security tensions in Bhutan. Now, she is in Taiwan for 9 months to learn about cross-Strait security of both the traditional and non-traditional varieties. She hopes that her internship at TCSS will foster deeper engagement, communication and knowledge sharing between Taiwanese and Australian civil society on the security challenges facing the Indo-Pacific today.