BedZed by Bill Dunster Architects: one of the projects Rachael visited during her Churchill Fellowship in 2003.

In 2003, Rachael Bernstone was awarded the
AV Jennings Churchill Fellowship

This incredible opportunity enabled Rachael to travel to the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden and the United States for 10 weeks, to study Sustainable and Affordable Housing.

The people she met and the lessons and insights she gathered during her study tour have shaped her advocacy and career priorities and directions for more than 20 years.

Now, as a Churchill Fellow, Rachael is happy to help architects and others working in built environment fields to prepare your own Churchill Fellowship application, and to offer advice about how to frame your project, plan your research and manage the logistics of travel, interviews and compiling your report.

And if you’re interested in reading Rachael’s report - which contains many useful lessons about how to improve sustainable and affordable housing outcomes - you can download a copy by clicking on the button at the right.

Read more Churchill Fellowship inspired stories

  • The Architect magazine Homes Edition 2022 features an article about Rachael Bernstone's Churchill Fellowship research

    Affordable Housing - The Architect (WA), 2022

    This article highlights several exemplar projects from the Churchill Fellowship study tour, in light of recent developments in Australia's housing sector. Download the first page here and the second page here.

  • A home for All, article by Rachael Bernstone on affordable housing

    A Home for All? - ArchitectureAU

    Rachael Bernstone reviews A House for All, an exhibition at the V&A in London, which looks at six experimental public housing projects from the 20th Century. Read the article here.

    (Alexandra Road by Neave Brown. Supplied by RIBA Library and Collections)

  • The Architect magazine, Victoria, cover

    Sustainable design - The Architect (Vic), 2021

    Rachael Bernstone distills her 18 years’ worth of wisdom on architecture and sustainable design down to 5 pertinent steps that architects and design practices can action now. This article was first published in The Architect (Vic) and later republished on IndesignLive, here.

  • Nightingale Housing in Melbourne by Breathe Architecture

    Nightingale Housing - Steel Profile 128

    Affordable, Social and Sustainable: How Nightingale is delivering triple-bottom line housing. Read the article here.

  • Churchill Fellow Shelly Dival

    Design for Autism - Architecture&Design

    This article is about another Churchill Fellow - Shelly Dival - who studied Design for Autism. Read the article - by Rachael Bernstone - here.

  • Energy Efficient Housing in Australia - an overview (2020)

    Housing 1 - habitusliving

    Rachael Bernstone delves deep into the current state of energy efficient housing in Australia: what initiatives are currently in place and what effect are they having? Read the first part here

  • TheFern by Steele Associates from HabitusLiving

    Housing 2 - habitusliving

    The second in a two-part series, Rachael Bernstone delves deep into the current state of energy efficient housing in Australia: what is passive house standard and how can you meet it? Read the article here.

  • Anthropocene - habitusliving

    As a nation, we are familiar with droughts and flooding rains, but the extreme bushfires of the past spring and summer – followed by floods, hail and dust storms in some parts of the country – have sharpened our collective attention on climate change threats. Read the article here.

  • McIntyre Drive Housing by MGS ARchitects in Altona, Victoria

    McIntyre Drive Housing - Steel Profile 115

    A sweeping gesture by MGS Architects aimed to embed this new social housing project in its surroundings while creating a vibrant community for residents. Download issue #115 to read the article by Rachael Bernstone here.