Award recipients 2024

OCTAL Awards

The Vice-Chancellor’s OCTAL Award

• Dr Lorraine Fields, The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health.

Faculty Academic OCTAL Award, ASSH

• Dr Hassan Hosseinzadeh, The Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.

Early Career Academic OCTAL Award, ASSH

• Dr Mitchell Parker, The Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.

Faculty Academic OCTAL Award, BAL (joint winner)

• Associate Professor Michael Mehmet, The Faculty of Business and Law.

Faculty Academic OCTAL Award, BAL (joint winner)

• Dr Laura Rook, The Faculty of Business and Law.

Early Career Academic OCTAL Award, BAL

• Dr Mary Papakosmas, The Faculty of Business and Law.

OCTAL Program Award, BAL

Work-Integrated Learning in Undergraduate Accounting Team, The Faculty of Business and Law:

• Dr Kevin Huang
• Dr Mona Nikidehaghani
• Dr Sanja Pupovac

Faculty Academic OCTAL Award, EIS

• Associate Professor Casey Chow, The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences.

Early Career Academic OCTAL Award, EIS

• Dr Jon Roberts, The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences.

Early Career Academic OCTAL Award, SMAH

• Dr Rebecca Bosworth, The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health.

OCTAL Program Award, SMAH

• Nutrition & Dietetics Professional Practice Program Team, The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health:
  • Janna Lutze
  • Meredith Kennedy

Sessional OCTAL Award, ASSH

• Alexandra South, The Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.

Sessional OCTAL Award, BAL

• Dr Hui-Ling Wang, The Faculty of Business and Law.

Vice-Chancellor’s Awards in Research Excellence

The Vice Chancellor's Award for Researcher of the Year

• Senior Professor Weihua Li, The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences.

Vice-Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award For Emerging Researcher (joint winners)

• Dr Alison Beck, The Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.
• Dr Dezerae Cox, The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health.

The Vice-Chancellor's Award for Emerging Researcher, Highly Commended (joint winners)

• Associate Professor Kelly Lambert, The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health.
• Dr Katharina Peters, The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health.

The Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Partnership and Impact

Team:

• Dr Celine Kelso, The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health and
• Dr Jody Moller, The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
  with NSW Ministry of Health industry partners:
  • Centre for Population Health
  • Tobacco & E-cigarette Control Unit

The Vice-Chancellor's Award for Team Research Excellence

Wollongong Methodology for Bayesian Assimilation of Trace gases (Team WOMBAT):

• Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie, The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences.
• Associate Professor Andrew Zammit Mangion, The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences.
• Dr Michael Bertolacci, The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences.
• Professor Jenny Fisher, The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health.

The Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research Supervision for Emerging Researchers

• Dr Lloyd White, The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health.

The Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research Supervision, Senior (joint winners)

• Professor Khin Than Win, The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences.
• Distinguished Professor Xiaolin Wang, The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences.

Vice-Chancellor’s Award For Outstanding Service for Professional Services Staff

• David Arnold, Chief Operating Officer Portfolio.
• Yousra El Haddad, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic & Student Life) Portfolio.
• Kate Mayhew, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Strategy and Assurance) Portfolio.
• Benjamin Rankin, Chief Operating Officer Portfolio.

Outstanding Service

• Complaints Management Centre, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Strategy and Assurance) Portfolio:
  • Alison Attenborough
  • Joanne Braithwaite
  • Samantha Constaninou
  • Natalie Projkoski

• Student Wellbeing and Mental Team, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic & Student Life) Portfolio:
  • Susannah Gregory
  • Erin Hiesley
  • Gabriella Holmes
  • Laura Nitzberg

Rosemary Cooper Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award

Joint winners

• Daimon Atkins, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic & Student Life) Portfolio.
• Sue Leppan, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic & Student Life) Portfolio.

Highly Commended

• Josie Balsom, The Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.

Kristy Adams Award for Excellence in Health and Safety

Hazardous Research Chemicals Team, The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health:

• Vanessa Baxendale
• Associate Professor Christopher Hyland
• Karin Maxwell
• Maria Menti-Platten
• Dr Andrew Tague
• Fiona Wells

Highly Commended

Travis Naylor, The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health.

Marie Lewis Award

• Leonie Clement, Deputy-Vice Chancellor (Academic and Student Life) Portfolio.

Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Global Strategy

• Associate Professor Yang-Wai (Casey) Chow, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences.

Highly Commended

• Dr Sharna Wiblen, Faculty of Business and Law

Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Advancement Award

The Djiringanj Community and UOW Bega Valley Team:

• Djiringanj Elder Aunty Ellen Mundy
• Djiringanj and Ngarigo artist Bronwyn Luff
• Emma Stewart, Indigenous Strategy and Engagement Portfolio
• Samantha Avitaia, UOW Bega Valley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Strategy and Assurance) Portfolio
• Linda Hatcliffe, Chief Operating Officer Portfolio

Highly Commended

• Associate Professor Shamika Almeida, The Faculty of Business and Law.

25 Years Service Award

• Rochelle Bitz, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Sustainable Futures) Portfolio.
• Kim Gray, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Sustainable Futures) Portfolio.
• Distinguished Professor Zhengyi Jiang, The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences.
• Daniel Judge, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic & Student Life) Portfolio.
• Sharon Martin, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Sustainable Futures) Portfolio.
• Jan Sullivan, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Strategy and Assurance) Portfolio.
• Distinguished Professor Xiaolin Wang, The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences.

40 Years Service Award

• Jenel Elrick, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic & Student Life) Portfolio.
• Joe Tiziano, The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences.
• Stuart Rodd, The Faculty of Engineering and Information Services.

The Vice-Chancellor's Special Award for Humanity in Action

Associate Professor Christopher Patterson, The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health.