Celebrating our finest

Macquarie has an ambition to be one of Australia’s, and one of the world’s, great research universities, bringing the best minds together and enabling them to conduct cutting-edge research across disciplines. Our international reputation is built upon the excellence of the research undertaken by our highly committed and talented researchers across a broad spectrum of research activity.

The Macquarie University Research Excellence Awards recognise and reward our staff and higher degree research candidates for outstanding performance and excellence in research and innovation. The 2015 Research Excellence Awards will showcase the University’s Strategic Research Framework (2015 – 2025) and is one of many initiatives working towards bringing life to our ten-year research framework.

“We are very excited to align our Research Excellence Awards with the Strategic Research Framework (2015 – 2024),” said Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Sakkie Pretorius. “We are committed to celebrating research across the range of disciplines at Macquarie and feel this shift in alignment will better capture areas of research strength and productivity.”

Professor Pretorius adds, “By aligning the Research Excellence Awards with the five future-shaping research priorities we are creating more awards that will enable us to celebrate even more areas of research excellence across the University.”

The 2015 categories and awards are:

Excellence in Higher Degree Research Awards category:

  • Excellence in Higher Degree Research – Engineering, Medicine and Science
  • Excellence in Higher Degree Research – Business, Humanities and Social Sciences

Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision

Macquarie University Early Career Researcher of the Year category:

  • Macquarie University Early Career Researcher of the Year – Engineering, Medicine and Science
  • Macquarie University Early Career Researcher of the Year – Business, Humanities and Social Sciences

Excellence in Research Awards category:

  • Excellence in Research: Healthy People
  • Excellence in Research: Resilient Societies
  • Excellence in Research: Prosperous Economies
  • Excellence in Research: Secure Planet
  • Excellence in Research: Innovative Technologies

The Jim Piper Award for Excellence in Research Leadership

Entries close 9 June, 2015

Learn more and download an application form.