2011 Macquarie University Research Award Winners

The 2011 Macquarie University Research Awards were presented to winners at a special awards event held on campus on 12 October 2011. The awards reinforce Macquarie University's commitment to become one of Australia's leading research universities by 2014 and to acknowledge the role staff play in this aspiration. The awards spanned the full spectrum of research activity at Macquarie University.

The awards consist of a framed certificate plus a cash prize. Each winner receives a cash prize of $2,000 for an individual winner and $3,000 for a team. The prize can be taken as a non-taxable cash payment or paid into a research account.

The judges were extremely impressed by the high quality and range of submissions, which made selection, even of the shortlisted applicants, quite difficult. All applicants are to be congratulated on their achievements.

 
The 2011 winners are:

Excellence in Research - Social Sciences, Business and Humanities

GENES FOR THERAPY

Associate Professor Jennifer Hudson

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Science, Macquarie University

Excellence in Research - Science and Engineering

TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE DIAMOND

Dr James Rabeau

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Macquarie University

Excellence in Higher Degree Research - Social Sciences, Business and Humanities

READING AND LEARNING TO READ: MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS

Ms Elisabeth Beyersmann

Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University

Excellence in Higher Degree Research - Science and Engineering

ANALYSIS OF PULSATILE FUNCTION OF THE RETINAL VASCULATURE FOR NON-INVASIVE ASSESSMENT OF CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE

Mr Seyyed Mojtaba Golzan

Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University

Excellence in External Research Partnership

SHARING KNOWLEDGE, MUTUAL BENEFITS AND SELF-DETERMINED FUTURES: COLLABORATING WITH BAWAKA CULTURAL EXPERIENCES (BCE), NORTH EAST ARNHEM LAND

Dr Sandie Suchet-Pearson & Dr Kate Lloyd

Department of Environment and Geography, Faculty of Science, Macquarie University

Excellence in Research in Sustainability

THE LINGERING LEGACY OF LEAD IN AUSTRALIAN CITIES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Professor Mark Patrick Taylor

Department of Environment & Geography, Faculty of Science

2011 Early Career Researcher of the Year

Dr Linda Graham

ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer (CoRE)

Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Faculty of Arts

School of Education, Faculty of Human Sciences

Short video clips of each of the highly commended and winning innovations can be viewed on the Research Awards website.

Congratulations to all the winners and highly commended applicants.

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Publish Date: 13 Oct 2011