Macquarie University is proud to celebrate its long history of teaching and research excellence.

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This year, Macquarie is acknowledging the nexus between teaching and research by bringing our staff and students together to jointly celebrate the highly-commended finalists and winners for both the Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Awards and the Research Excellence Awards.

Excellence in teaching and research together ensure our staff and students are at the cutting edge of learning and innovation.

“The fundamental interdependence of learning and teaching and research cannot be overstated,” said Professor Sakkie Pretorius, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research).

“Research, and research-enriched learning and teaching, are what makes a university. The Academic Staff Awards, combining the award ceremonies for the Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Awards and the Research Excellence Awards, are a demonstration of Macquarie’s commitment to a culture of transformative learning in a research-enriched environment.”

Professor Kevin Jameson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) agreed, adding that at Macquarie, we pride ourselves in being home to a community of engaged pioneers.

“Without a doubt, our innovative learning and teaching practices and the unmistakable connection to research fosters a rich environment for our students, researchers, and staff to partner as co-creators and actively seek out solutions to some of the complex issues facing our world today,” he said.

“Teaching and engaging with students encourages us to think about the ‘big picture’, to question what really matters in our research contributions and why it matters more broadly to our society as a whole.

“Encouraging students in their thirst for knowledge and inspiring discovery is a unique opportunity we have as educators. Investing in our students of today fosters our researchers of future generations and is another way that our efforts in the classroom can pay long term dividends for research.”

2017 Research Excellence Award categories:

• 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.

2017 Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Award categories:

• The Student Award for Excellence in Teaching (all faculties) recognises individuals who have made a significant contribution to the quality of student learning in a specific area of responsibility over a sustained period at Macquarie.
• The Vice-Chancellor’s Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning recognises individuals or teams who have made a significant contribution to the quality of student learning in a specific area of responsibility over a sustained period at Macquarie.
• The Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Programs that Enhance Learning recognises and reward learning and teaching programs and support services that have made an outstanding contribution to the quality of student learning and the quality of the student experience.
• The Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence recognises, promotes and rewards excellence in coursework teaching at either undergraduate or postgraduate level. It recognises teachers (individuals or groups) who can demonstrate their outstanding teaching practices and the positive enhancement to students’ learning outcomes and experiences.

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Save the date: 

Academic Staff Awards
Wednesday 1 November
E7B Courtyard
3 – 5.30pm

Registrations opening soon. Stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks.