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.
To be eligible for these awards, a candidate must have been enrolled at the University of Western Australia in a;
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).
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.
‘Multimodal Analysis of PEI-Mediated Endocytosis of Nanoparticles in Neural Cells', in ACS Nano
‘RNA processing in human mitochondria', in Cell Cycle
‘Meningiomas in Children and Adolescents: a meta-analysis of individual patient data', in Lancet Oncology
The panel has recommended that no award should be issued in the category this year.
'"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
‘Caffeinated Avant Garde: Futurism During the Russian Civil War 1917-1921', in Australian Journal of Political History
'World Food Demand', in American Journal of Agricultural Economics
‘Conditional extremals in complete Riemannian manifolds' in Nonlinear Analysis
‘The 6df Galaxy Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations and the local Hubble constant', in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronimcal Society
'Iron monosulfide enrichment and the presence of organosulfur in eutrophic estuarine sediments', in Chemical Geology