Awards and Prizes for Researchers

The UOW is constantly building on its reputation of excellence in research and continues to make an impact both nationally and internationally. As such, outstanding researchers are rewarded and acknowledged with many internal and external research awards and prizes. Congratulations to all our researchers on their many achievements.

Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Awards (Internal)

• 2012 Awards Information (Nominations now closed)
• 2011 Winners   |  2010 Winners  |    2009 Winners  |  2008 Winners  
• 2006/7 Research Supervision Award

External Awards, Prizes & Fellowships

2012

• International Reading Association William S Gray Citation of Merit (Brian Cambourne)

2011

• Australian Museum Eureka Prize (Salim Bouzerdoum)
• ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (Gordon Wallace)
• Endeavour Awards (Lang, Du, Aminorroaya-Yamini, Daley, Ash)
• Engineers Australia Transport Medal (Buddhima Indraratna)
• Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (Buddhima Indraratna)
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (Lesley Head)
• RACI Distinguished Fellowship Award (John Bremner)

2010

• Geographical Society of NSW - Fellowship (Gordon Waitt)
• Endeavour Awards (A/Prof. Weihua Li, Hua Zhao, C. Smith)
• Australian Property Institute (NSW Chapter) LandMark White Property Development Award (IHMRI)
• Royal Society of NSW Scholarship (Dennis Black)
• 43rd Annual AWGIE Awards (Fargher, Abela)
• New York Radio Awards 2010 (Siobhan McHugh)

2009

• Geographical Society of NSW - Macdonald Holmes Medal (Gordon Waitt)
• The Australian Psychological Society's College of Clinical Psychologists' Award of Distinction (Craig Gonsalvez) 
• Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal for outstanding young Quaternary scientists (Zenobia Jacobs)
• Prime Minister's Australia Asia Endeavour Award (Matt Griffith)
• EH Memorial Lecture to be given by Prof. Buddhima Indraratna
• The Business/Higher Education Round Table (B-HERT) Award for Best Research & Development Collaboration: (Buddhima Indraratna and Railcorp NSW)
• LOreal Australia for Women in Science Fellowship 2009 (Dr Zenobia Jacobs)
•  Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow: Professor Lesley Head | (Biographies of Fellows)
• Premier's Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research: Research Scholar Award (PhD student Scott Penfold)
• Australian Academy of Science R.J.W. Le Fèvre Memorial Prize (Stephen Blanksby)
• SPIE Lifetime Achievement Award (Gordon Wallace)
• Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry "Bowie Medal" (Stephen Blanksby)

2008

• Australia's Top Ten Researchers: Thomson Scientific Research Day and Citation Awards (Paul Chandler)
• ANZIAM Medal (Jim Hill)
• Coalfield Geology Council of NSW Award for Excellence in Coal Geology (Adrian Hutton)
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (Matt Wand)
• Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (Peter Eklund)
• Australian Museum Eureka Prizes (Finalist) People's Choice Award (Mark Walker)
• Honorary Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (Kathy Eagar)
• M.A. Sargent Medal (Vic Gosbell)
• NSW Scientist of the Year (G. Wallace and M. Wand)
• President of the Australian Council of Deans of ICT (Joe Chicharo)
• RACI H.G. Smith Memorial Medal (Gordon Wallace)

2007

• Australian Archaeological Association - John Mulvaney Book Award (Mike Morwood and Penny van Oosterzee)
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (Gordon Wallace)
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (Kiet Tieu)
• Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Matt Wand)
• Nobel Peace Prize: share in (Colin Woodroffe)
• RACI Rennie Memorial Medal (Stephen Blanksby)

2006

• Australian Research Council (ARC) Federation Fellowship (Gordon Wallace)
• King Carl XV1 Gustaf Visiting Professor of Environmental Science (Landscape Science program) at Kristianstad Uni, Sweden (Lesley Head)
• Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences (Simon Ville)
• GN Alexander Medal by the Institution of Engineers Australia (Michael Boyd & Nanayakkara Bodhinayake)

2005

• Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (John Rossiter)

2004

• Fellow of the Academy of Engineering and Technological Sciences (Gordon Wallace)
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities (Lesley Head)

2003

• Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (Mike Morwood)

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