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Vice Chancellor's Awards for Exceptional Performance in Research
The Vice-Chancellor offers annual awards in recognition of exceptional performance in research by members of the academic staff.
Awards are available in three categories:
- New Researcher Award
- Individual Researcher Award
- Research Team Award
The awards will be presented by the Vice-Chancellor and include a framed award citation for each individual, as well as an allocation of $5,000 in respect to individual awards and $10,000 in respect to team awards, to be used for professional development purposes within one year of the award being made.
Awards will only be issued for nominations that demonstrate exceptional performance. While it is expected that one award will be given annually in each category, this number may be varied depending upon the quality of the nominations. Any or all awards need not be given in any one year.
Nominations must be submitted on the Nomination form and Guidelines>> (.doc) and be received at the Office of Research and Innovation by COB on the closing date that's announced annually on this page.
Congratulations to previous recipients of the Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Exceptional Performance in Research!
2011 award winners
Individual
Researcher
Category - No award made
New Researcher Category - Dr Kerstin Zander
1. Healthy Skin
Research Team :
2. Severe Malaria
Research Team:
Assoc
Prof Ross Andrews
Ms Teresa Kearns
Ms Leanne Bundala Dhurrkay
Ms Roslyn Gundjirryirr Dhurrkay
Ms Marilyn Dhurrkay
Ms Janice Djilirri
Mr Terry Garrawarra
Ms Veronica Gondarra
Mr George Gurruwiwi
Ms Grennady Wiranata
Mr Thomas Yalandhu
Dr Asha Bowen
Dr Debra Holt
Dr Shelley Walton
Dr Malcolm McDonald
Dr Steve Tong
Prof Jonathan Carapetis
Prof Nicholas Anstey
Prof Ric Price
Dr Tsin Yeo
Dr Tonia Woodberry
Dr Gabriela Minigo
2010 award winners
Individual Researcher Category
• Anne Chang
New Researcher Category
• Lucas Cernusak
Research Team Category
• David Thomas
• Vanessa Johnston
• Darren Westphal
• Ramya Ramamoorthy
• Karen Kairupan
• Elizabeth Heenan
• Melissa Dunbar
2009 award winners
Individual
Researcher Category
• Keith Christian
New Researcher Category
• Jun-Yi Zhang
Research Team Category
• Samantha Setterfield
• Michael Douglas
• Lindsay Hutley
• Natalie Rossiter-Rachor
2008 award winners
New Researcher Award - Clive McMahon
Clive currently holds an Australian Research Council Post Doctoral Industry Fellowship at Charles Darwin University (CDU) working on the Epidemiology and Ecology of feral swamp buffalo. For his Doctoral thesis Clive compared the demography of two elephant seal populations; one in the Southern Indian Ocean and the other in the Southern Pacific Ocean and identified the key life-history parameters driving population change and how these life-history traits were affected by climatic variations (and therefore resource availability) in the Southern Ocean. It is for a combination of these works, success in obtaining research funding and post-graduate supervision that Clive has been awarded CDUs Vice Chancellor award for Exceptional Performance in Research in the New Researcher category.
Individual Award - Lindsay Hutley
Lindsay's research activity covers 1) savanna carbon sequestration and
greenhouse gas emissions, 2) water resource management, 3) indicators
of landscape health, 4) climate change and vegetation dynamics and 5)
weed biology. This research has strategic benefit for north Australia
and for research and research training at CDU. Lindsay's focus is
aligned with CDU’s research strength in Natural and Cultural Resource
Management and the Tropical Knowledge Research Strategy. Lindsay is a
member of the Tropical Environmental Disturbance and Stress (TEDS)
Research Group within SELS. Understanding disturbance processes is
fundamental for improved land management and my research encompasses
impacts of altered fire regimes, weed invasion, grazing impacts, water
extraction and climate variability.
Research Team Award - Lesley Barclay, Sue Kildea, Sue
Kruske and Suzanne Belton
CDU have a rather unique bunch of midwives. Their unique
characteristics of work include their attention to Indigenous mothers,
families and children and their mixed methodologies that integrate
participatory approaches with randomised controlled trials, qualitative
studies (and epidemiology to improve clinical care, its acceptability
to women, and implementation of best practice by health services. All
four members of the team research and publish together. They have been
invited to be keynote speakers, have received large competitive grants,
conducted international research, and the results of their research and
work impact considerably on peoples culture, the economy, socially
and professionally.
2007 award winners
New Researcher Award
Claire Streton-Joyce received her PhD in 2005. She is a molecular biologist who has published 10 articles in scientific journals of high repute since 2003, and has a further 5 in preparation. Her research is of great value to northern Australia, and is of international standard.
Individual Researcher Award
Jim Mitroy is a leading international scientist in the field of theoretical physics. In the last 2 years he has published 21 articles in scientific journals, mostly in the world’s top journals for the field. His research is truly at the cutting edge internationally.
Research team Award
Michael Christie, John Greatorex, Waymamba Gaykamangu and Bryce Anbins-King are a team that has developed a research and consultancy methodology under the guidance of traditional Yolngu elders. Government and non government organisations have acknowledged the importance of this research. Their blend of Indigenous perspectives and Western thought brings great credit to the university.
