Graduate Research School
Further information
- Queries should be directed to
Dr Michael Azariadis
Graduate Education Officer
The Graduate Research School makes annual awards of Prizes for Higher Degree by Research Achievements.
In 2013, six prizes of $1000 each will be offered for the best work accepted for publication in 2012 by an enrolled PhD, professional doctorate or Master's by Research student from any discipline.
Eligibility
To be eligible for these awards, a candidate must have been enrolled at the University of Western Australia in a;
- PhD
- professional doctorate, or
- Master's by Research degree
at the time the work in question was prepared and submitted for publication (in the case of work accepted for publication) or completed, displayed or performed (in the case of creative work).
Applications
Four copies of each application must be submitted to the Graduate Research and Scholarships Office. The call for submissions will be made on the 28th of May. Submissions will only be accepted from that date.
The applications in each category are assessed by a panel of senior academic staff, representing a range of disciplines relevant to the work submitted. Each panel provides to the Board of the Graduate Research School a shortlist of recommended applications. The Board determines the winner in each category.
2012 Winners and Special Commendations
Biological Sciences
Winner - Cameron Evans (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
‘Multimodal Analysis of PEI-Mediated Endocytosis of Nanoparticles in Neural Cells', in ACS Nano
Special Commendation - Maria Lopez-Sanchez (School of Medicine and Pharmacology)
‘RNA processing in human mitochondria', in Cell Cycle
Clinical Medicine and Dentistry
Winner - Rishi Kotecha (School of Paediatrics and Child Health)
‘Meningiomas in Children and Adolescents: a meta-analysis of individual patient data', in Lancet Oncology
Creative Works
The panel has recommended that no award should be issued in the category this year.
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (Qualitative)
Winner - Gwyneth Peaty (School of Social Sciences)
'"Hatched from the Veins in Your Arms": Movement Ontology and First-Person Gameplay in Bioshock', in Gerald A. Voorhees et al (eds) Guns, Grenades and Grunts: the First Person Shooter, Continuum, London and New York
Special Commendation - Iva Glisic (School of Humanities)
‘Caffeinated Avant Garde: Futurism During the Russian Civil War 1917-1921', in Australian Journal of Political History
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (Quantitative)
Winner - Grace Gao (Business School)
'World Food Demand', in American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Mathematics, Physical Science and Engineering
Winner - Philip Schrader (School of Mathematics and Statistics)
‘Conditional extremals in complete Riemannian manifolds' in Nonlinear Analysis
Special Commendation - Florian Beutler (School of Physics)
‘The 6df Galaxy Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations and the local Hubble constant', in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronimcal Society
Special Commendation - Bree Morgan (School of Earth and Environment)
'Iron monosulfide enrichment and the presence of organosulfur in eutrophic estuarine sediments', in Chemical Geology