Macquarie is one of the country’s leading research universities.

Indeed, our international reputation is built on the excellence of the research undertaken here, across a broad spectrum of activity and disciplines, by some the nation’s best minds.

The prestigious Macquarie University Research Excellence Awards are designed to reward this important and pioneering work as they recognise staff and postgraduate research students for outstanding performance and excellence in research and innovation.

Applications and nominations for the 2017 Research Excellence Awards are now open and close Tuesday 20 June.

Professor Sakkie S. Pretorius, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) says this year’s awards have been updated to reflect changes at the University.

“We have aligned the categories with the new academic promotions criteria, reduced the length of the applications and increased the prize awards,” Professor Pretorius said. “With all the positive changes, I hope to see more applications and nominations in 2017 and encourage researchers to apply.”

The 2017 awards are:

• The Jim Piper Award for Excellence in Research Leadership, which recognises, encourages and rewards those researchers who are on a path to becoming research leaders at Macquarie.
• The Excellence in Research: Five Future-shaping Research Priorities, which awards recognise excellence in scholarly research, the creation and application of research outcomes, the discovery of new knowledge or the use of existing knowledge in a new and creative way to generate new concepts, methodologies and understanding. One award will be allocated per priority.
• The Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision award, which recognises our outstanding Higher Degree Research (HDR) supervisors who enable our HDR candidates to achieve their highest potential.
• The Early Career Researcher award, which recognises outstanding performance in research by an early career researcher who is within five years post-completion (formal award) of their PhD or MPhil degree.
• The Excellence in Higher Degree Research award, which recognises outstanding research undertaken by a current or former higher degree research candidate. The research activity can be in any field and must have been developed at Macquarie in the past four years.

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More information and links to the application forms online, or by contacting Dr Erin Semon – erin.semon@mq.edu.au or x6847 – in the office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research).