Past winners

Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences

• Lauren Lillian BROWN (Melbourne Graduate School of Education)
  "Unsettling conceptions of Indigenous youth, reimagining the future: Beyond a problem for education and criminal justice"
• Emad Ahmad A ALGHAMDI (School of Languages and Linguistic)
  "Automated video difficulty assessment"

Science and Engineering

• Neeta LOHANI (School of Agriculture and Food)
  "Molecular basis of the high-temperature susceptibility of reproductive development in Canola, Brassica napus"

• Johnathon James GARGALIONIS (School of Physics)
  "Models of radiative neutrino mass and lepton flavour non-universality"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Fana ALEMSEGED (Department of Medicine - Royal Melbourne Hospital)
  "Treatment and prognosis in posterior circulation ischaemic stroke"

• Carlos MIRANDA RODRIGUES (Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology)
  "Development of tools to help understand and map protein-protein Interactions"

Indigenous Award

• Arlie Rocky ALIZZI (School of Culture and Communication)
  "Indigenous futurism: Practices and politics"

Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences

• Robert Ellis WALTON (Victorian College of the Arts)
  "Overlooked performances: mobile computing, site-responsive arts practice and the spectral dramaturgy of vanitas"

• Louise Ann BOX (Culture and Communication)
  "The print collection of Elizabeth Seymour Percy, 1st Duchess of Northumberland (1716-1776)"

Science and Engineering

• Emily Jane ROYCROFT (School of BioSciences)
  "Phylogenomics, molecular evolution and extinction in the adaptive radiation of murine rodents"
• Nikita Alexeyevich SHEPELIN (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
  "3D printing of flexible and efficient polymeric piezoelectric energy conversion materials"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Jonathan KAUFMAN (General Practice)
  "Urinary tract infections in young children: optimising diagnosis with effective and cost-effective urine sample collection
• Shalini Ambika AMUKOTUWA (Radiology)
  "Advanced imaging techniques in cerebrovascular disease"

Indigenous Award

• Ngardarb Francine RICHES (Victorian College of the Arts)
  "Healing through art: My practice

Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences

• Frederic Murray KIERNAN (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music)

"The Figure of Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745) in the History of Emotions"

• Neha MISHRA (Melbourne Law School)

"When data flows across borders: Aligning international trade law with internet policy objectives"

Science and Engineering

• Philippa Jane KAROLY
  "Epileptic Seizures: Mechanisms and Forecasting"
• Victoria HEMMING (School of BioSciences)
  "Who to trust? Assessing and improving expert judgement in ecological domains"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Simone Louise PARK (Department of Microbiology and Immunology)
  "The role of CD8+ tissue-resident memory T cells in melanoma immune surveillance"
• Dinh Son BUI (Melbourne School of Population and Global Health)
  "Risk factors for and outcomes of lung function deficits throughout the lifespan"

Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences

• Katherine Anne Bell O'Connor (Melbourne Graduate School of Education)
  "Remaking the university curriculum: what counts as knowledge in new forms of online learning"
• Tyne Daile Sumner (Culture and Communication)
  "Lyric Eye: the poetics of twentieth-century surveillance"

Science and Engineering

• Andrew Elvey Price (Mathematics and Statistics)
  "Selected problems in enumerative combinatorics: permutation classes, random walks and planar maps"
• Michela Mariani (Resource Management and Geography)
  "Palaeofire activity in western Tasmania: climate drivers and land‐cover changes"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Joshua Ross Foreman (Ophthalmology Eye and Ear Hospital)
  "The prevalence and causes of vision impairment and blindness in Australia: the National Eye Health Survey"
• Gabrielle Haeusler (The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology)
  "Fever and neutropenia in children with cancer: optimising clinical research and the delivery of care in Australia"

Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences

• Anne Caithleen Storr (Melbourne Law School)
  "Nauru: international status, imperial form, and the histories of international law”
• Simone Ann Slee (VCA and MCM)"'Help a sculpture' and other abfunctional potentials"

Science and Engineering

• Andreas Julius Stroehlein (Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences)
  "Kinomes of selected parasitic helminths - fundamental and applied implications"
• Rebecca Kate Leane (School of Physics)"Phenomenology of particle dark matter"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Benjamin Wen Yeow Teh (The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology)"Advancing the risk prediction and effective management of infection in patients with myeloma in the era of novel therapies"
• Emma Elizabeth Nolan (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research)"The identification of novel strategies for the prevention and treatment of breast cancer in BRCA1-mutation carriers"

Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences

• Julia Dehm (Melbourne Law School)
  "Reconsidering REDD+: law, life, limits and growth in crisis”
• Tristram Oliver-Skuse (Arts)
  "Emotions and representation"

Science and Engineering

• Jackson David Clarke (School of Physics)
  "Physics Beyond the Standard Model"
• Steven Harris Wibowo (School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)"Diversification of peptide architectures by surface-initiated ring-opening polymerization"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

Thomas James Oxley (Royal Melbourne Hospital)"Feasibility Of Endovascular Stent-Electrode Array For Minimally Invasive High-Fidelity Chronic Recordings Of Cortical Neural Activity"

• Mark Thomas Mackay (Paediatrics Royal Children’s Hospital)"Rapid Diagnosis of Childhood Stroke: Time is Brain"

Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences

• Sophie Elizabeth Rudolph (Melbourne Graduate School of Education)
  "Racing the gap: a critical analysis of Australian Indigenous education policy discourse and its political effects"
• Stewart Ferguson Fenwick (Melbourne Law School)
  "Is Rawlsian liberalism compatible with Islam? A case study of post-Soeharto Indonesia"

Science and Engineering

• James Louis Maino (School of BioSciences)
  "The importance of body size: scaling of physiological traits in insects"
• Ida Asadi Someh (Computing and Information Systems)
  "The role of synergy in achieving value from business analytics systems"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Sarah Hanieh (Medicine (RMH)
  "Antenatal and early life determinants of infant growth and development in rural Vietnam"
• Lucille Catherine Rankin (Medical Biology)
  "Distinct requirements for T-bet and Nfil3 for the generation of innate lymphoid cell populations"

Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences

• Geoffrey Mead (School of Social and Political Sciences)
  "Sense of structure and structure of sense: Pierre Bourdieu's habitus as a generative principle"
• Wendy Ng (Melbourne Law School)
  "The political economy of China's anti-monopoly law"

Science and Engineering

• Darwin Tat-Ming Lau (Mechanical Engineering)
  "Modelling and analysis of anthropomorphic cable-driven robots"
• Liam Terres Hall (School of Physics)
  "Principles and applications of quantum decoherence in biological, chemical, and condensed matter systems"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Aung Ko Win (Melbourne School of Population and Global Health)
  "Cancer risks for people with colorectal cancer-predisposing genetic mutations"
• Christina Qingran Mo (Anatomy and Neuroscience and Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health)
  "The effects of stress on the onset and progression of Huntington's disease in a transgenic mouse model"

Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences

• Luis Fernando Eslava Arcila (Melbourne Law School)
  "Local space, global life: the everyday operation of international law and development"
• Gary Edward Foley (School of Culture and Communication)
  "An autobiographical narrative of the Black Power Movement and the 1972 Aboriginal Embassy"

Science and Engineering

• Jin Shang (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
  "Novel separation mechanism for CO₂ capture - "molecular trapdoor" effect"
• Brandon Ian MacDonald (School of Chemistry)
  "Solution-processed CdTe nanocrystal solar cells"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Jaclyn Suzanne Pearson (Microbiology and Immunology)
  "Type III effectors of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli"
• David Thomas Riglar (Medical Biology)
  "Dissection of the coordinated events during Plasmodium falciparum infection of the human erythrocyte"

Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences

• Emily Jane Hudson (Melbourne Law School)
  "Copyright exceptions: the experiences of cultural institutions in the United States, Canada and Australia"
• Jeanette Deirdre Tamplin (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music)
  "The effects of singing on respiratory function, voice, and mood for people with quadriplegia"

Science and Engineering

• Marcus William Doherty (School of Physics)
  "The theory of the nitrogen-vacancy colour centre in diamond"
• Dean Robert Freestone (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
  "Epileptic seizure prediction and the dynamics of the electrical fields of the brain"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Bruce Charles Vivian Campbell (Medicine RMH)
  "Acute stroke imaging: predicting response to therapy"
• Peng Lei (Pathology)
  "Ironing out the involvement of tau protein in neurodegenerative diseases"

Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences

• Takele Soboka Bulto (Melbourne Law School)
  "Rights, wrongs and the river between: extraterritorial application of the human right to water in Africa"
• Milinda Gamaniabaya Pathiraja (Architecture, Building and Planning)
  "The idea of 'robust technology' in the definition of a 'third-world' practice: architecture, design and labour training"

Science and Engineering

• Cinzia Cantacessi (Faculty of Veterinary Science)
  "Genomic-bioinformatic investigations of key gastrointestinal parasites of socio-economic importance and their implications"
• Michael Alan Wheeler (Mathematics and Statistics)
  "Free fermions in classical and quantum integrable models"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Fiona Mary Russell (Paediatrics)
  "Alternative pneumococcal vaccination schedules for infants in Fiji and pneumococcal epidemiology"
• Kimberley Mellor (Physiology)
  "Fructose and the heart: myocardial remodelling and functional responses"

Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences

• Jothi Saunthararajah (Melbourne Law School)
  "Legislating illiberalism: law, discourse & legitimacy in Singapore"
• Jennifer Anne Green (School of Languages and Linguistics)
  "Between the earth and the air: multimodality in Arandic sand stories"

Science and Engineering

• Hugh Richard Miller (Mathematics and Statistics)
  "Statistical methods for the analysis of high-dimensional data"
• Jing Fung Tan (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
  "Core cross-linked star polymers and their multi-star analogues: advancements in their versatility and commercial viability"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Mark Anthony Walterfang (Psychiatry)
  "The specificity of morphological changes of the corpus callosum in schizophrenia and related major mental disorders"
• Michelle Dianne Tate (Microbiology and Immunology)
  "The role of innate immune defences in determining the virulence of influenza A virus for mice"

Humanities and Creative Arts

• Alexander James Ling (School of Culture and Communication)
  "Infinite revolutions: Alain Badiou, thinking cinema"

Social Sciences

• Muhammad Ali (Melbourne Business School)
  "Workforce gender diversity: is it a source of competitive advantage?"

Science and Engineering

• Andrew Vincent Martin (School of Physics)
  "Theoretical studies in phase imaging and atomic resolution electron microscopy"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Radwa Aly Bakry Badawy (Department of Medicine (Austin & Northern Health))
  "Cortical excitability and epilepsy; insights into the pathophysiology"

Humanities and Creative Arts

• Amelia Jane Douglas (School of Culture and Communication)
  "Historiography in the open present: Pierre Huyghe and the association of freed time"

Social Sciences

• Brenda LeAnn Southerland Holt (Faculty of Education)
  "Global routes/rural roots: identiy, rural women and higher education"

Science and Engineering

• Jacek Jaroslaw Jasieniak (School of Chemistry)
  "Synthesis and application of II-VI semiconductor quantum dot"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Nathan James Cochrane (School of Dental Science)
  "Remineralisation of mineral-deficient enamel using casein phosphopeptide stabilised amorphous calcium fluoride phosphate"

Humanities and Creative Arts

• Roland George Burke (School of Historical Studies)
  "The politics of decolonisation and the evolution of the international human rights project"

Social Sciences

• Simon Andrew Butt (Faculty of Law)
  "Judicial review in Indonesia: between civil law and accountability? A study of constitutional court decisions 2003-2005"

Science and Engineering

• Daniel Enrique Gomez Alviarez (School of Chemistry)
  "Optical properties of single semiconductor nanocrystals"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Jonathan David Schertzer (Department of Physiology)
  "Non-viral gene transfer of growth factors in skeletal muscle: implications for injury, regeneration and disease"

Humanities and Creative Arts

• Ahmad Luthfi Assyaukanie (Asia Institute)
  "Muslim models of polity: Islamic arguments for political change in Indonesia, 1945-2005"

Social Sciences

• Gaynor Williams (Faculty of Education)
  "Improving intellectual and affective quality in mathematics lessons: how autonomy and spontaneity enable creative and insightful thinking"

Science and Engineering

• John Papandriopoulos (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
  "Resource optimization in multiuser communication networks"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• James Gordon Ryall (Department of Physiology)
  "Age-related changes in skeletal and cardiac muscle structure and function: effects of beta 2-adrenoceptor agonist administration"

Humanities and Creative Arts

• Djoymi Anne Baker (School of Art History, Cinema, Classics & Archaeology)
  "Broadcast space: TV culture, myth and Star Trek"

Social Sciences

• Penelope Anne Smith (Institute of Applied Economic & Social Research)
  "Modelling business cycles through changes in regime"

Science and Engineering

• Martin Daly de Jonge (School of Physics)
  "High-accuracy measurements of the x-ray mass attenuation coefficients of molybdenum and tin: testing theories of photoabsorption"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Christopher Michael Smith (Department of Medical Biology)
  "The interplay of dendritic cells and T-helper cells in generating immunity to viruses"

Humanities and Creative Arts

• Simon James West (French, Italian & Spanish Studies)
  "E tant' e dritta e simigliante cosa: translating Guido Cavalcanti"

Social Sciences

No Prize awarded this year

Science and Engineering

• Lucia Hillegonda Gerarda Jose Boxelaar (Agriculture & Food Systems)
  "Diversity and convergence in platforms for change: building social capability for land management"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Sophocles Chrissobolis (Pharmacology)
  "Mechanisms regulating cerebral artery function"

Humanities and Creative Arts

• Anthony Keith Birch (History)
  "'Framing Fitzroy': contesting and (de)constructing place and identity in a Melbourne suburb"

Social Sciences

• Peter James Fleming (Management)
  "Diogenes go to work: culture, cynicism and resistance in the contemporary workplace"

Science and Engineering

• Duncan Andrew Wild (Chemistry)
  "Infrared spectroscopy of size selected anion complexes and clusters"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Toula Bouras (Pathology)
  "Molecular analysis of the estrogen receptor alpha pathway in human breast cancer"

Humanities and Creative Arts

• Mark Halsey (Criminology)
  "On the name and nature: categorical and criminological marks of forest bodies"

Social Sciences

• John Stachurski (Economics)
  "Stochastic economic growth: an operator-theoretic approach"

Science and Engineering

• Maziar Nikpour (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
  "Reduced-rank signal processing"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Peter Boag (Veterinary Science)
  "Gender-specific gene expression in the porcine parasitic nematode Oesophagostomum dentatum"

Humanities and Creative Arts

• Marion Elizabeth Frere (History & Criminology)
  "Corporeal punishment: prisons and sexual difference"

Social Sciences

• Angela Paladino (Management)
  "Comparing the resource based view and market orientation to understand organisational performance"

Science and Engineering

• Nicole Fiona Bell (Physics)
  "Neutrino oscillations and the early universe"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• James Geoffrey Beeson (Medical Biology)
  "Mechanisms of placental infection by Plasmodium falciparum"

Humanities and Creative Arts

• Nicole Denise Kruspe (Linguistics and Applied Linguistics)
  "Semelai"

Social Sciences

• Simon James Bell (Management)
  "Organisational learning and internal marketing"

Science and Engineering

• Daniel John Mortlock (Physics)
  "Statistical gravitational lensing"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Justin Raymond Hamilton (Pharmacology)
  "Protease-activated receptors in coronary arteries"

Humanities and Creative Arts

• Justin Dominic Clemens (English)
  "Institution, aesthetics, nihilism: the romanticism of contemporary theory"

Social Sciences

• Brian Norman Gray (Language, Literacy and Arts Education)
  "Accessing the discourses of schooling: English language and literacy development with Aboriginal children in mainstream schools"

Science and Engineering

• Mark Peter Oxley (Physics)
  "Inner-shell ionization by fast electrons in a crystalline environment"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Paul Baden Sparks (Medicine RMH)
  "The influence of atrial arrhythmias and cardiac pacing onmechanical and electrical remodelling of the human atria"

Humanities and Social Sciences

• Robert Norman Paddle (History and Philosophy of Science)
  "Changing scientific perspectives of the Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus)"

Science and Engineering

• Jamie Scott Evans (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
  "Studies in nonlinear filtering theory: Random parameter linear systems, target tracking and communication constrained estimation"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Ingrid Eileen Scheffer (Medicine Austin)
  "Inherited epilepsy syndromes in multiplex families"

Humanities and Social Sciences

• Mark McDonald (Fine Arts, Classical Studies & Archaeology)
  "Studies in printmaking and print collecting in Madrid (1584 - 1684) and the contribution of Pedro de Villafranaca y Malagon"

Science and Engineering

• Anne-Maree Boland (Crop Production)
  "Control of vegetative vigor of peach orchards"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Patrick Reading (Microbiology & Immunology)
  "The role of mannose-binding lectins in host defence againstviral infections"

Humanities and Social Sciences

• Simon Marginson (Education Policy and Management)
  "Markets in education: the formation of markets in Australian education since 1975"

Science and Engineering

• Peter Stone (Agriulculture and Resource Management)
  "The effects of post-anthesis heat stress on wheat yield and quality"

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

• Stephen Rogerson (Medical Biology)
  "Cytoadherence and rosetting in Plasmodium Falciparum"