Tamasin Ramsay


Tamasin Ramsay is an Australian anthropologist, 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. 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. She played Princess Talitha in Return to Eden, followed by roles in Prime Time , Neighbours, Darlings of the Gods, The Great Gatsby Blue Heelers, Queen of the Damned, and Tao of the Traveller, 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. 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.. 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 . Ramsay is a notable practitioner-scholar within the Brahma Kumaris and has been commissioned to write on the group. 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. 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. She now works as Research and Policy Advisor to Andy Meddick.