2012 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Professional Staff Excellence 

The Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Professional Staff Excellence formally acknowledges, and rewards, outstanding performance by Professional staff across the University. 

The Award seeks to encourage outstanding and exceptional work performance and recognises performance that exceeds what would be expected of staff in the normal performance of their duties.

In recognition of these achievements  the Vice-Chancellor would like to invite you to join the celebrations at the Conservatorium on Monday 10 December from 5.30pm-7pm.

Congratulations to everyone who have received an award for 2012. 

The ceremony includes public recognition of those individuals who received an award for:

  • Professional staff excellence
  • Research excellence
  • Supervision excellence, and
  • Contributions to student learning

We hope that you are able to attend this special event honouring our staff achievements. 

For catering purposes, could you please send your RSVP to VCAwards-RSVP@newcastle.edu.au prior to Friday 23  November 2012.


2012 Professional Staff Excellence Award recipients

The successful teams and individual award recipients for the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Professional Staff Excellence, 2012 are:

Individual Awards

Matthew Griffin
Faculty of Business and Law

Loretta Weatherall
Faculty of Health

Katharine Kachur
Faculty of Education and Arts

Katherine Bradley
Faculty of Health

Team Awards

Animal Support Unit (ASU) BioResourcesTeam
Research Division
Ronny Eidels; Rebecca Bosevski; Carolyn Allport; Nick Bosevski; Lisa Kirkland

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Team
Research Division
Academic and Global Relations Division
Faculty of Business and Law
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
Faculty of Health
Faculty of Science and IT

Nadine Barry; Tanille Elley; Helen Thursby; Lina Bozinovska; Danielle Storey; Shirley Savy; Chanel Hopkinson; Ingrid Ritchie; Michelle Allan; Kerri Foulds

Ourimbah Library Staff Team
Academic and Global Relations

Fatu Kigbo; Robyn Williams; Susan Zhang; Alicia Brand; Michael Marriott; Lorraine Miller; Leanne Wilkinson; Jennifer Shakespeare; Ruth Massey; Jacob McCorry

Physics Technical Staff
Faculty of Science and IT

Michael Cvetanovski; Galiya Sharafutdinova; John Foster

Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Outstanding Service to Staff and Students

HMRI Relocations Team
Services Division
Faculty of Health

Donna Farragher; Clare Nader; Deborah Edmunds; Dean Jeffs; Darren Gorton; Jason Harris; Lynn Herd