The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards aim to encourage and recognise exceptional performance from University staff members who demonstrate outstanding achievement in activities that are aligned to the University’s vision and strategic goals. Congratulations to the award recipients!
Award recipients 2022
Recipients by awards
- OCTAL Awards
- Awards for Excellence in Research
- Global Strategy Award
- Outstanding Service for Professional Services Staff
- Award for Excellence in Community Engagement
- The Marie Lewis Award
- Rosemary Cooper Award
- Reconciliation Award
- The Kristy Adams Award for Excellence in Health and Safety
- 25 Years Service Award
- Special Award
OCTAL Awards
The Vice-Chancellor’s OCTAL Award
- Dr Emma Heffernan, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences
Faculty OCTAL Award
- Dr Maria Kim, Faculty of Business and Law
- Dr Emma Heffernan, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences
- Dr Noelene Weatherby-Fell, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Early Career Faculty OCTAL Award
- Dr Tairan Kevin Huang, Faculty of Business and Law
Sessional Staff OCTAL Award
- Dr Ellen Zhao, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences
Highly Commended
- Dr Erin Jade Twyford, Faculty of Business and Law for Faculty OCTAL category
- Dr Usman Khalil, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences for Sessional Staff category
- Dr Abdullah Al-Mamun, Faculty of Business and Law for OCTAL Early Career Faculty category
Vice-Chancellor’s Research Awards
Vice-Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award For Researcher Of The Year
- Professor Shujun Zhang, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials
Vice-Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award For Emerging Researcher
- Dr Marlene Longbottom, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Dr Nana Wang (Highly Commended), Australian Institute for Innovative Materials
Vice-Chancellor’s Award For Outstanding Achievement In Research Partnership & Impact
- Dr Katarina Mikac, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
Industry Partner: Great Eastern Ranges, Nsw National Parks Association
Vice-Chancellor’s Award For Excellence In Research Supervision, Emerging Researcher
- Dr David Cortie, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials
- Dr Rita Chang (Highly Commended), Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Dr Andrew Whelan (Highly Commended), Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities
Vice-Chancellor’s Award For Research Supervision, Senior Researcher (Joint Winners)
- Professor Faisal Hai, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences
- Professor Peter Kelly, Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities
Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Global Strategy
MBA Subject Coordinators UOWD & UOW:
- A/Prof Shahriar Akter, Faculty of Business and Law
- Dr Osama Al Hares, Faculty of Business and Law
- Dr Paul Chad, Faculty of Business and Law
- Dr Florian Gerth, Faculty of Business and Law
- A/Prof Belinda Gibbons, Faculty of Business and Law
- Dr Martin Gold, Faculty of Business and Law
- Dr Mohan Guruswamy, Faculty of Business and Law
- Dr Payyazhi Jayashree, Faculty of Business and Law
- Snr Prof David Johnstone, Faculty of Business and Law
- Prof Grace McCarthy, Faculty of Business and Law
- A/Prof Martin O’Brien, Faculty of Business and Law
- Dr Kashif Saleem, Faculty of Business and Law
- Dr Arijit Sikdar, Faculty of Business and Law
- Dr David Tan, Faculty of Business and Law
- Dr Sharna Wiblen, Faculty of Business and Law
- Dr Ananda Wickramasinghe, Faculty of Business and Law
- A/Prof Venkat Yanamandram, Faculty of Business and Law
Vice-Chancellor’s Award For Outstanding Service for Professional Services Staff
- Michael Parlas, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials
- Tina Mak, Faculty of Business and Law
- The Faculty of Business and Law International Team
- Michael Grainger, Faculty of Business and Law
- Melek Nazenin, Faculty of Business and Law
- Erin Snape, Faculty of Business and Law
- Sean Lu, Faculty of Business and Law
- The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health Molecular Horizons Team
- Tracey Gibson, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Dr Diane Ly, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Kayla Morlando, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Dr Tracey Berg, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Dr Sarah Abbott, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- The UOW Exams Team
- Xanthe Knox, Student and Accommodation Services Division
- Ellenie Petrou, Student and Accommodation Services Division
- Georgie Mason, Student and Accommodation Services Division
- Jenel Elrick, Student and Accommodation Services Division
- Elizabeth Kuskovska, Student and Accommodation Services Division
- Kristina Tanaskovska, Student and Accommodation Services Division
- Daniel Judge, Learning, Teaching and Curriculum
- Kate Schreiber, Information Management & Technology Services
- The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health Clinical Placements Team
- Jenny Deura, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Tracey Wheatley, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Carol Kendall, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Tracy Metcalfe, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Natalie Pero, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Erin Cope, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Jasmin Pearce, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Ray Leung, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Grant Turner, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
Vice-Chancellor’s Award For Excellence In Community Engagement
- A/Prof Vida Bliokas, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
- SEED Team (Highly Commended)
- Dr Julaine Allan, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
- Dr Katarzyna Olcon, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
- Andrea Knezevic, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Marie Lewis Award
- Claire Carter, Research and Innovation Division
Rosemary Cooper Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award
- Korin Brown, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Angela Cowan (Highly Commended), PVC (Strategy and Planning) Portfolio
Vice-Chancellor’s Reconciliation Award
- Dr Kylie Lingard, Faculty of Business and Law
Kristy Adams Award for Excellence in Health and Safety
- The Discovery Space Team
- Liam Buckley, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
- Liz Depers, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
- Grant Strangman, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
- Vanessa Johnson, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
- Carly Antonelli, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
- Rebecca Rivinoja, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
- Ms Toula Avouris, Human Resources Division
- Professor Aditya Ghose, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences
- Dr Charles Hawksley, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
- Ms Karen Lovasz, Research Services Office
- Dr Darryl McAndrew, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
- Mr Tim McDonald, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences
- Ms Christine O'Brien, Human Resources Division
- Mrs Mirella Ward, Facilities Management Division
- Mrs Stacey Young, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences
The Vice-Chancellor's Special Award for embedding Aboriginal Ceremony into UOW’s Graduation
This award will be presented to representatives from the three teams who made this possible:
- On behalf of Woolyungah Indigenous Centre, Jaime King and Adam Ridgeway
- On behalf of the Current Student Events Team, Chiara Mammone
- On behalf of Strategic Marketing and Communications, Jenna Thorn