Tamasin Ramsay
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Tamasin Ramsay (born 1969) is an Australian anthropologist (with a background as an actress), having studied medical anthropology at the University of Melbourne and received her PhD in the same field from Monash University in 2009. Tamasin resides in Melbourne, Australia.
Acting career
Her parents are Robin Ramsay and Barbara Bossert Ramsay (actress and critically acclaimed writer). As a child she worked as an actor, with roles in an ABC Television series, The Truckies and the film Dimboola. At age 17, she was cast in the Australian television series Possession (1985).[1] She played Princess Talitha in Return to Eden (1986), followed by roles in Prime Time (1986), Neighbours (1987), Darlings of the Gods (1989), The Great Gatsby (Rippon Lea, directed by Robert Chuter) Blue Heelers (2001),[2] Queen of the Damned (2002), and Tao of the Traveller (2008), a film based on a theatre script and book written by Barbara Bossert Ramsay, and produced and directed by her father, Robin Ramsay.
Later interests
During the 1990s, Ramsay left television and became a qualified ambulance paramedic in Melbourne. She was awarded a number of commendations during her paramedic career.[citation needed] During the 1990s Ramsay also qualified for a black belt in Gōjū Kai karate after winning a number of national and international titles in martial arts.[citation needed]. While continuing to volunteer in the health and emergency services, Ramsay attended graduate school at the University of Melbourne and was awarded a PhD for studies in anthropology and health at Monash University in 2009 on the basis of her in-depth ethnographic study of the Brahma Kumaris "Custodians of Purity". Ramsay is a notable practitioner-scholar within the Brahma Kumaris and has been commissioned to write on the group.[3] She is considered an authority on the history of the Brahma Kumaris as evidenced on the website brahmakumarisresearch.org.
Between 2010 and 2014 she worked as an NGO Representative to the United Nations for the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University focussing on climate change, sustainability and the environment.[4] She has written widely on the Brahma Kumaris.
Current career
After representing civil society at the United Nations and participating in climate change deliberations, Ramsay returned to working at the level of local communities as an activist for social, environmental and animal justice. Ramsay ran in the seat of Albert Park, in the 2017 Victoria's state election.[5] She now works as Research and Policy Advisor to Andy Meddick.
References
- ^ Elizabeth Riddell At last a show for those who can't count The Sun-Herald 20 January 1985, p. 54
- ^ Tamasin Ramsay interview, at Neighbours: the Perfect Blend (Grundy Television Pty), 12 May 2007
- ^ Ramsay, Tamasin (November 2017). "Brahma Kumaris". www.oxfordbibliographies.com/. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ^ Ramsay, Tamasin (2012). ""Awakening Biodiversity Consciousness." Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Eleventh Meeting, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, India October 8‐19, 2012" (PDF). www.cbd.int. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ^ "Tamasin Ramsay candidate for Albert Park". ajpvic.org.au. Retrieved 6 June 2018.