Student & Staff Awards

Student Awards & Prizes

The School awards a number of undergraduate and postgraduate student prizes, in addition to Faculty and University medals and scholarships.

University Medal

2010

  • Robert Elliot - History
  • Cassandra O'Loughlin - English

2009

  • Leigh Sainsbury - Speech Pathology
  • Emma Hamilton - History
  • Cressida Green - English
  • Simon Swinson - French

2008

  • Rebecca Horodecki - Sociology & Anthropology
  • Anne Walker - Social Work

2007 

  • Nathan Colbert - Japanese
  • Elizabeth Davidson - Social Work
  • Natacha Hes - Sociology & Anthropology
  • David Murray - English
  • Nancy Withers - Recreation & Tourism

Faculty Medal

2010

  • Cassandra O'Loughlin - English

2009

  • Lauren Davis - Speech Pathology
  • Leigh Sainsbury - Speech Pathology
  • Rachael Unicomb - Speech Pathology
  • Lilian Heinsch - Social Work
  • Elizabeth De Plater - Speech Pathology
  • Ashlee Harper - Speech Pathology
  • Helen Braggett - Speech Pathology
  • Rhiannon Bray - Speech Pathology
  • Simon Swinson - French
  • Christopher McAnulty - History
  • Thomas Fulton - History
  • Emma Hamilton - History
  • Linda Boulton - English
  • Cressida Green - English

2008

  • Alexandra Clare Hunting - Speech Pathology
  • Erin Beard - Social Work

2007

  • Nathan Colbert - Japanese
  • Elizabeth Davidson - Social Work
  • Natacha Hes - Sociology & Anthropology
  • David Murray - English
  • Tania Quaglio - Speech Pathology
  • Nancy Withers - Recreation & Tourism

School RHD Publication Prize: $300 and awarded at the Annual NUPSA Dinner

Prizes are awarded to candidates for high quality publications and consists of a certificate and a $300 prize. Congratulations to all the following recipients:

2009

  • Alexis Antonia (with Ellen Jordan as second author) ‘Who wrote the Women’s Movement articles in the Saturday Review’, Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, Issue 4.3, Winter 2008.
  • Scott Brewer '"A peculiar aesthetic": Julia Leigh's The Hunter and Sublime Loss', Journal for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Vol. 9, 2009
  • Patrick Bryson 'The Urge to Write and the Urge to Kill: Creativity, Violence and the Manipulation of Madness in the Work of Peter Kocan', In Configuring Madness: Representation, Context and Meaning, ed. K. White, 2009, Rodopi Press.
  • Dominiek Coates 'Post-involvement Difficulties Experienced by Former members of Charismatic Groups', Journal of Religion and Health, published as Online First 24 April 2009.
  • Patrick Cullen What Came Between. Melbourne: Scribe.
  • Nevill Drury 'The Modern Magical Revival', In Handbook of Contemporary Paganism, eds. M. Pizza, J.R. Lewis, 2009, pp. 13-80, Leiden: Brill.
  • Therese Dryden Bachelor Dad on her Doorstep. 2009, Harlequin & The Aristocrat and the Single Mum. 2009, Harlequin/Mills & Boon
  • Danuta Raine 'Essaying the Self: Ethnicity, Identity and the Fictocritical Essay', Text, Special Issue Website Series, 'The Art of the Real' no. 5, April 2009, eds K Glastonbury and R. Smith.
  • Michael Sala 'Old World Charm', Heat, no. 20, new series, ed. I. Indyk, pp. 83-140, Writing and Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney. & 'Like my Father, My Brother', Brothers and Sisters, ed. C. Wood, Sydney: Allen & Unwin 2009, pp. 67-86.
  • Steven Threadgold 'Reflexivity of Contemporary Youth, Risk and Cultural Capital', Current Sociology, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 47-68, 2009.
  • Jessica Walton 'More Than a Korean Adoptee: making Sense of Identity and Adoption in South Korea and Adoptive Countries', In Other People's Children: Adoption in Australia, eds C. Spark and D. Cuthbert 2009, Chapter 13. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Press.

2008

  • Wendy Alexander - short story Safe Ways
  • Jennifer Boddy - article 'Athena's Legacy: Preparing Women for a Mentoring Group'
  • Peter Bower - poem 'Cold' 
  • Anne Brown - short story The Lunatic 
  • Nicole Byrne - article 'Current and Prospective Speech-Language Pathology Student's Reports of Exposure to Speech-Language Pathology'
  • Therese Dryden - novel His Christmas Angel
  • Maria Freij - poem 'Sugar'
  • Peter Hodges - translation and commentary 'The Slip-up'
  • David Murray - prose poem 'The Passenger'
  • Stephen O'Brien - article 'His Excellency Comrade Robert: How Mugabe's Zanu clique rose to power'

2007 

  • Hedda Askland - paper in the Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
  • Jill Bough - paper in the Australian Zoologist
  • Louise Connors - paper in Literary and Linguistic Computing
  • Patrick Cullen - story in The Best Australian Stories 2007
  • Maria Freij - poem 'January, snow' in Bluedog
  • Brian Walsh - paper in The Journal of Australian Colonial History

RHD Excellence Award for the Faculty of Education & Arts

Examiners of theses are given the opportunity to nominate candidates and each Faculty determines a recipient after reviewing the Examiner comments for nominees. This award attracts a prize of $1000 and a certificate.

2008

Dr Neville Drury (supervised by Dr Marguerite Johnson & Dr Michael Goddard)

Staff Awards & Prizes

Student Forum Award

2009

Congratulations to Lou Johnston for being voted the most Well-Regarded HASS Lecturer of 2009
The following Lecturers deserve special mention for the high number of votes they received.

  • Alex Beveridge
  • Michael Ondaatje
  • Peter Khoury
  • Sharon Walsh

Click here to view a list of lecturers who the students of Newcastle University took time to nominate for an award.

2008

The Student Forum Award for 2008 is shared jointly by Dr Peter Khoury and Dr Alex Beveridge. Congratulations to these two highly regarded lecturers. Also favourably mentioned were:

Altogether 54 academic staff were nominated by students and will receive certificates acknowledging the students' appreciation.

The students initiated this award last year so that the forum would have a positive function as well as transmitting student complaints and communicating dissatisfaction. There were more than 150 votes this year - we hope that the idea will continue to attract support and become stronger and more prestigious in future years.

University Award for Research Excellence

  • 2007
    • Dr Alistair Rolls: Received the award for his paper 'Throwing Caution to a French Wind: Peter Cheney's Success Overseas in 1945,' Australian Journal of French Studies (43:1, 2006, pp.35-47). Dr Rolls has established a strong reputation as a scholar of French noir fiction; his output is prolific and in high quality publications. Read more

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Supervisor of the Year

  • 2007
    • Associate Professor Alison Ferguson: Highly regarded nationally and internationally, Associate Professor Ferguson has built the research training profile of the discipline of Speech Pathology and mentors students through engagement with the scholarly community and publishing of research findings. Read more

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Supervision Excellence

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence

Vice-Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

  • 2009
    • Dr Sally Hewat:  For development of a research-led work-integrated learning program for Speech Pathology students.
  • 2007
    • Dr Christo Moskovsky: The award was for building an international applied linguistic learning community through research-led teaching, individualised feedback, and advanced online delivery.
    • Dr Alistair Rolls and Dr Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan: Revitalising a small discipline through intensive teamwork and by reaching out to multiple communities of learners.
  • 2006
    • Dr Debbie Plath: For bold, innovative teaching that inspires the personal and professional development of social work students.

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence and Learning Support

  • 2010
  • 2008
    • Dr Debbie Plath - Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in
      the Faculty of Education and Arts
    • Ms Kathleen Butler - Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in
      Indigenous Education

Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC) Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning 

  • 2010
    • Dr Michael Ondaatje: For creating exceptionally engaging teaching environments and embedding innovative resources in newly-developed American History courses that have inspired and motivated students to learn.
  • 2009
    • A/Prof Marjorie Kibby: For engaging film, media and cultural studies students in effective, innovative, online learning activities that facilitate situated cognition.

Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC) Award for Programs that Enhance Learning, for 'The COMPASS Project'

  • 2008
    • Congratulation to A/Prof Alison Ferguson  and colleagues for this prestigious award. This project is based at University of Sydney (led by Associate Professor Michelle Lincoln), with team members A/Prof Alison Ferguson (University of Newcastle), Dr Sue McAllister (University of Sydney/University of Newcastle), and Associate Professor Lindy McAllister (University of Queensland). The project has involved the development, validation, and national roll out of a competency based assessment tool for speech pathology students' development of workplace performance, and the project is currently moving on to international involvement (with New Zealand and Singapore speech pathology programs now involved), and to the development of ways to use the tool to assist benchmarking to guide curriculum renewal.

Australian College of Educators Teacher Recognition Awards

  • 2009
    • Nominees for these awards are student driven with each nominee requiring at least 3 students to indicate why the person nominated is supporting students above and beyond the call of duty. Congratulations to:
      Hugh Lindsay
      Josephine May
      Sharon Walsh

NSW Quality Teacher Awards

  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Dr Josephine May: The award reflects her work on a co-authored Academic Survival Skills Coursework Booklet to help students acquire academic skills and develop strategies needed to succeed at University, and related innovations in a first year history course in the University. Read more
    • Dr Dianne Osland: The award was based on her work on developing students' understanding of the cultural and aesthetic values of literature, particularly narrative literature and the craft of writing. Read more

WIL (Work Integrated Learning) Awards

  • 2010
    • Dr Ann Taylor: WIL Staff  Award
    • Barbara Rodgers: WIL Student of the Year Award

Well-Regarded HASS Lecturer

  • 2010
    • Alex Beveridge
    • Special mentions to: Chris Falzon, Mitchell Hobbs, Michael Ondaatje, Sharon Walsh  and Emma Kirby
    • Click here to view other nominations
  • 2009
    • Lou Johnston
    • Special mentions to: Alex Beveridge, Michael Ondaatje, Peter Khoury and Sharon Walsh
    • Click here to view other nominations

FEDUA Awards for Teaching Excellence

History Awards

HERDSA Fellows