Congratulations to the 2023 Academic Staff Award finalists. The awards represent Macquarie’s long history of teaching and research excellence with the winners and highly commended celebrated during a ceremony on 15 November.

Keep an eye on This Week over the coming weeks as we get to know each of the finalists.

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LEARNING AND TEACHING AWARD FINALISTS

Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Student–Nominated Award

This award recognises staff for their teaching and support of learning that influences, motivates and inspires students to learn.

• Ms Georgia Cam, Faculty of Arts
• Dr Irina Dedova, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
• Associate Professor Richard Garner, Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Ms Emily Gray, Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Dr Michelle Hamadache, Faculty of Arts
• Dr Marina Junqueira Santiago, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
• Dr Jillian Kramer, Faculty of Arts
• Dr Ali Lalbakhsh, Macquarie University College
• Dr Rico Piehler, Macquarie Business School
• Dr Lay Peng Tan, Macquarie Business School
• Dr Hector Viveros Tapia, Macquarie Business School

Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Sessional Staff Award

This award recognises sessional staff for their approaches to teaching and support of learning that influences, motivates and inspires students to learn.

• Ms Abbie Hartman, Faculty of Arts
• Mr Camille Rahme, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
• Dr Brett White, Macquarie Business School

Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Early Career Award

This award recognises staff for their quality teaching and support of learning and the impact they have on influencing, motivating and inspiring students to learn.

• Dr Joseph Chen, Macquarie Business School
• Dr Narelle Hess, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
• Dr June Ho, Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Dr Madeline Taylor, Faculty of Arts

Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence

This award recognises staff for their excellence in teaching and support of learning and the impact they have on influencing, motivating and inspiring students to learn.

• Dr Viken Kortian, Faculty of Science and Engineering
• The team of: Dr Hamed Jafarzadeh and Dr Prashan S. M. Karunaratne, Macquarie Business School
• Associate Professor John De Nobile, Faculty of Arts
• Dr Natasha Todorov, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences

Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Learning and Teaching Innovation

This award recognises the development and implementation of innovations that improve learning, teaching or assessment to enable, motivate, support and inspire students to learn.

• The team of: Associate Prof Louise Koelmeyer, Dr Belinda Thompson, Robin Blumfield, Professor Catherine Dean, Robbie Blackwell, Dr Kylie Gwynne, Fiona Tisdall-Blake, Dr Morwenna Kirwan, Matthew Robson, and Chloe Szilas, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
• The team of: Dr David Payne, Dr Sara Deilami, and Dr Binesh Puthen Veettil, Faculty of Science and Engineering
• The team of: Dr Marjan Nazifi and Professor David Orsmond, Macquarie Business School
• The team of: Dr Mareike Riedel and Dr Amanda Head, Faculty of Arts

Vice-Chancellor’s Educational Leader Award

This award recognises educational leadership that has influenced and enhanced learning and teaching and/or student experience.

• Dr Onur Ates, Macquarie University College
• The team of: Associate Professor Agnes Bosanquet, Dr Mathew Hillier, Dr Olga Kozar, Dr Karina Luzia, Kylie Coaldrake, and Alison Hayward, Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education)
• Dr Josephine Paparo, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
• The team of: Professor Ronika Power, Mr Michael Rampe, and Dr Neil Durrant, Faculty of Arts
• Dr Malcolm Ryan, Faculty of Science and Engineering

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RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARD FINALISTS  

Excellence in Higher Degree Research Awards

These awards will be presented for outstanding research undertaken by a current or former higher degree research candidate (in both HASS and STEMM disciplines). 

HASS

• Ms Michelle Bishop, Faculty of Arts
• Mr Jonathan David, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
• Mr Thom Dixon, Faculty of Arts
• Dr Tamika Worrell, Faculty of Arts

STEMM

• Mr Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes, Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Mr Harry Carey, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
• Mr Alexander Hahn, Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Dr Ali Lalbakhsh, Faculty of Science and Engineering

Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision – Supervisor of the Year

This award recognises our outstanding Higher Degree Research (HDR) supervisors who enable our HDR candidates to achieve their highest potential.

• Associate Professor Alice Chik, Faculty of Arts
• Professor Niloufer Selvadurai, Faculty of Arts

Early Career Researcher of the Year

These awards acknowledge outstanding performance in research by an early career researcher (in both HASS and STEMM based disciplines).

HASS

• Dr Anam Bilgrami, Macquarie Business School
• Dr Emlyn Dodd, Faculty of Arts
• Dr Madeline Taylor, Faculty of Arts

STEMM

• Dr Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay, Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Associate Professor Noushin Nasiri, Faculty of Science and Engineering

Excellence in Research – Five Future-shaping Research Priorities

These awards celebrate the five future-shaping research priorities that are identified areas of cross-disciplinary research strengths.  Awards within the five future-shaping research priorities demonstrate the real-world impact of University research that has the potential to deliver significant benefits to Australian and international communities.

The five categories are: Healthy People, Resilient Societies, Prosperous Economies, Secure Planet and Innovative Technologies 

• Associate Professor Mark Alfano, Faculty of Arts
• Professor Tao Gu, Faculty of Science and Engineering
• The team of: Professor Catherine McMahon, Professor Leanne Holt, Associate Professor Boe Rambaldini, Dr Kylie Gwynne, Luke Halvorsen, Kai Nash, Noeleen Lumby, Cara Cross, Dr Yvonne Dimitropoulos, Dr Andrea Salins, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences and Faculty of Arts
• Professor Tina Soliman-Hunter, Faculty of Arts
• The team of: Dr Miles Yang, Dr Candy Lu, Macquarie Business School
• Dr Yipeng Zhou, Faculty of Science and Engineering

Excellence in Research Integrity

The inaugural Excellence in Research Integrity award recognises outstanding contribution, leadership or innovation in research integrity by an individual or team.

• Associate Professor Reema Harrison, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
• Associate Professor Mianna Lotz, Faculty of Arts

Excellence in Research Innovation, Partnership and Entrepreneurship Award

The Research Innovation, Partnership and Entrepreneurship award recognises and rewards excellence in research innovation, partnership, commercialisation, translation and entrepreneurship at Macquarie University.

• Professor Michael Aitken, Macquarie Business School
• The team of: Distinguished Professor Phil Taylor, Dr Bishwo Mainali, Dr Vivian Mendez, Dr Maciej Maselko, Dr Soo Jean Park, Dr Mary Whitehouse, Dr Piotr Trebicki, Faculty of Science and Engineering

The Jim Piper Award for Excellence in Research Leadership

This award seeks to recognise, encourage and reward those researchers who are on a path to becoming research leaders at Macquarie University.

• Associate Professor Morten Andersen, Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Associate Professor Amy Cain, Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Professor Helen Rizos, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
• Distinguished Professor Deborah Schofield, Macquarie Business School