Congratulations to our 2021 Academic Staff Award finalists. The awards represent Macquarie’s long history of teaching and research excellence with the winners and highly commended to be celebrated at a ceremony on 30 November.

Keep an eye on This Week in October we get to know the finalists in each faculty.

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LEARNING AND TEACHING AWARD FINALISTS 

Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Student–Nominated Award
This award recognises staff for their teaching and support of learning that influences, motivates, and inspires students to learn. 

• Dr Shireen Daft, Faculty of Arts 
• Dr Holly Doel-Mackaway, Faculty of Arts 
• Dr Petra Graham, Faculty of Science and Engineering 
• Dr Gaurav Gupta, Faculty of Science and Engineering 
• Professor Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Macquarie Business School 
• Dr Yimin Stephanie Huang, Macquarie Business School 
• Dr Ian Jamie, Faculty of Science and Engineering 
• Dr Prashan Karunaratne, Macquarie Business School 
• Dr Ali Lalbakhsh, Macquarie University International College 
• Mr Daniel Lombardo, Macquarie University International College 
• Miss Christine Mikhael, Faculty of Arts 
• Dr Melissa Norberg, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences 
• Dr Joshua Penney, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences 
• Dr John Turchini, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences 

Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Sessional Staff Award
This award recognises staff for their approaches to teaching and support of learning that influences, motivates, and inspires students to learn. 

• Mr Joshua Fitzgerald, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences 
• Dr Amanda Head, Faculty of Arts 
• Mr Damian Jurd, Faculty of Science and Engineering 
• Mr Dylan Thompson, Macquarie Business School 

Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Early Career Award
This award recognises staff for their quality teaching and support of learning and the impact they have on influencing, motivating and inspiring students to learn. 

• Dr Joel Fuller, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences 
• Dr Wesley Robertson, Faculty of Arts 
• Dr Helen Siuki, Macquarie Business School 
• Dr Zhu Sun, Faculty of Science and Engineering 

Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence
This award recognises staff for their excellence in teaching and support of learning and the impact they have on influencing, motivating and inspiring students to learn. 

• Dr Alissa Beath, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences 
• Dr Frances Chang, Macquarie Business School 
• Professor Iain Collings, Faculty of Science and Engineering 
• Ms Linda Kelly, Faculty of Arts 

Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Learning Innovation
This award recognises the development and implementation of innovations that improve learning, teaching or assessment to enable, motivate, support, and inspire students to learn. 

• Mr Shamim Joarder, Learning Enhancement and Student Engagement, PVC (Learning & Teaching) 
• Dr Jennifer Ruskin, Macquarie Business School 
• The team of: Ms Agnes Bodis, Ms Melissa Reed and Ms Yulia Kharchenko, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
  
• The team of: Professor Panos Vlachopoulos, Associate Professor Andrew McGregor and Mr Michael Rampe, Faculty of Arts
• The team of: Dr Christian Schwab, Associate Professor Richard McDermid and Mr Jacob Pember, Faculty of Science and Engineering

Vice-Chancellor’s Educational Leader Award
This award recognises educational leadership that has influenced and enhanced learning and teaching and/or student experience. 

• Dr Lise Barry, Faculty of Arts 
• Professor Deborah Richards, Faculty of Science and Engineering 
• Professor Leonie Tickle, Macquarie Business School 

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RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARD FINALISTS 

Excellence in Higher Degree Research Awards
These awards will be presented for outstanding research undertaken by a current or former higher degree research candidate.

HASS 

• Dr Anam Bilgrami, Macquarie Business School  
• Dr Jarrod Hore, Faculty of Arts 
• Dr Corrine Sullivan, Faculty of Arts  

 STEMM 

• Dr Ali Lalbakhsh, Faculty of Science and Engineering  
• Dr Jenny Lee, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences  

Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision – Supervisor of the Year
This award recognises our outstanding Higher Degree Research (HDR) supervisors who enable our HDR candidates to achieve their highest potential. 

• Professor Chris Patel, Macquarie Business School  
• Professor Anina Rich, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences 

Early Career Researcher of the Year
These awards acknowledge outstanding performance in research by an early career researcher.

HASS 

• Dr Rohan Best, Macquarie Business School 
• Dr Emlyn Dodd, Faculty of Arts 
• Associate Professor Daniel Ghezelbash, Faculty of Arts 

STEMM 

• Dr Mohsen Asadnia, Faculty of Science and Engineering 
• Dr Sidong Liu, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences 
• Dr Noushin Nasiri, Faculty of Science and Engineering 

Excellence in Research – Five Future-shaping Research Priorities
These awards celebrate the Five Future-shaping Research Priorities which are identified areas of cross-disciplinary research strengths. These awards demonstrate the real-world impact of university research that has the potential to deliver significant benefits to Australian and international communities.

The five categories are: Healthy People, Resilient Societies, Prosperous Economies, Secure Planet, and Innovative Technologies  

• The team of: Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Professor Enrico Coiera, Professor Johanna Westbrook, Associate Professor Yvonne Zurynski, Professor Andrew Georgiou, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences 
• Professor Sheila Degotardi, Faculty of Arts 
• Dr Miriam Forbes, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences 
• The team of: Professor Catherine McMahon, Dr Kylie Gwynne, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences and Pro Vice-Chancellor Leanne Holt and Professor Liz Pellicano, Faculty of Arts 
• The team of: Professor Bronwyn Carlson, Professor Sandy O’Sullivan, Dr Tristan Kennedy, Ms Madi Day, Ms Tetei Bakic, Dr Jo Rey, Faculty of Arts 
• Professor Maroš Servátka, Macquarie Business School 
• Professor Neil Saintilan, Faculty of Science and Engineering 
• Associate Professor Dominic Berry, Faculty of Science and Engineering  
• Dr Hazer Inaltekin, Faculty of Science and Engineering 

Excellence in Research Innovation, Partnership and Entrepreneurship Award
The inaugural Research Innovation, Partnership and Entrepreneurship award is to recognise and reward excellence in research innovation, partnership, commercialisation, translation, and entrepreneurship at Macquarie University. 

• The team of: Dr Julian Droogan, Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton and Ms Lise Waldek, Faculty of Arts 
• The team of: Dr Sourabh Khandelwal, Professor Michael Heimlich, Professor Anthony Parker and Professor Simon Mahon, Faculty of Science and Engineering 
• Distinguished Professor Phil Taylor, Faculty of Science and Engineering 

The Jim Piper Award for Excellence in Research Leadership
This award seeks to recognise, encourage, and reward those researchers who are on a path to becoming research leaders at Macquarie University. 

• Professor Dali Kaafar, Faculty of Science and Engineering 
• Professor Liz Pellicano, Faculty of Arts 

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SAVE THE DATE 

The Academic Staff Awards will be held on Tuesday 30 November via Zoom.