Macquarie University’s researchers address many of the really big, important questions facing the world and do so with enthusiasm and excellence that is recognised nationally and internationally. The Research Excellence Awards are an opportunity for Macquarie to acknowledge and celebrate the diversity and quality of that research.

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.

Applications close 20 June 2017. Questions related to the guidelines and application process should be directed to dvcr.researchexcellence@mq.edu.au. Emails will be responded to within two business days.