On-screen text: Jack Cranstoun, a talented young mediator employed by the department’s Dispute Resolution Branch, tragically passed away in 2014. To honour Jack’s memory, in 2015 his colleagues introduced the Jack Cranstoun Scholarship.
Since 2015 the Dispute Resolution Branch has provided over $100,000 to young Queenslanders as part of the Jack Cranstoun Program.
John Campbell, Training Officer, Dispute Resolution Branch: He was new to the mediation space and I was the first mediator that he co-mediated with. A lot of our mediations are done individually but there's also a lot that are done together and so Jack and I actually mediated for his first co-mediation.
On-screen text: What was your experience like working with Jack?
John: I think the overall experience of working with Jack was a real standout. Monday mornings. Every Monday morning after a weekend he was so full of life and enthusiasm. He'd come in talking about his weekend and what he'd been up to and his zest for life was then quite infectious and I think that was the real highlight, the fact that talking to Jack on a Monday morning was a real uplift and it just set the scene for great working week.
On-screen text: As a former colleague of Jack, are you proud of the scholarship’s success?
John: It's a tremendously fitting acknowledgement of Jack as a colleague, but also his contribution to the mediation space. But I also think it's a very important avenue or vehicle for other young people like Jack who have that innate attraction to mediation and those innate skills to give them that opportunity to become mediators.
On-screen text: Applications are open for the Jack Cranstoun Scholarship 2022.
