Recent awards
Many of our researchers are recognised nationally and internationally for their research activities.
Three academics from the University of Sydney are among the latest group of outstanding scholars elected to the prestigious Australian Academy of Humanities. Full Story
Research into the management of Australia's urban archaeological sites by Sydney University graduate Nadia Iacono has won this year's Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority heritage prize. Full Story
The winner of the 2007 NSW Rhodes Scholarship is Kate Brennan, a University of Sydney Arts/Law undergraduate.
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University of Sydney academic Glenda Sluga has been appointed to the International Scientific Committee for the UNESCO Intellectual History Project.
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Sydney woman Dr Judith Robinson-Valéry, a leading international figure in the study of French literature, was awarded France’s highest decoration, the Legion of Honour (Chevalier).
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The Joan Carden Award for 2006 was won by baritone Jae-Hyeok Lee, a postgraduate student of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
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Dr Kirsten McKenzie (Lecturer, Department of History) has been awarded the Crawford Medal by the Australian Academy of the Humanities for her contribution towards an understanding by the general public in the colonial history of Australia and South Africa, with an emphasis on the role of women. Full story |
Dr Ed Duyker (Lecturer, Department of French Studies) has been awarded the General History Prize in the 2004 NSW Premier’s History Awards for his scientific adventure story of the 18th century traveller and naturalist, Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière. Dr Duyker's book: Citizen Labillardière: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755-1834). Full story
Painter Judith Duquemin (Sydney College of the Arts graduate) won the SCA's $28,000 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artist Travel Scholarship in development of her art practice and painting research throughout the textile producing centres and regions of France. Full story
Mr Robert McLean (Dean of the Australian Graduate School of Management) has received a 'Benevolent Australian' award from the Benevolent Society for his contribution to the not-for-profit sector.
Professor Rodger Benjamin (Art History, Director of the Power Institute) has won the $20,000 Robert Motherwell Book Award for Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa 1880-1930, published last year by the University of California. Full story
Associate Professor Ghassan Hage (Anthropologist), received the Community Relations Commission Award for his book Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society.
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Richard Doumani (a former tutor at the Conservatorium of Music) has won the Fulbright's Visual and Performing Arts Award. He will be heading for the United States later this year and hopes to study at the Manhattan School of Music for his masters, focusing on orchestral performance of the clarinet. |
Associate Professor Len Unsworth (Development and Learning) awarded Citation of Merit Award for Research - Australian Literacy Educators Association (ALEA), to be presented at the National Conference in July, 2004.
Professor Roger Collins received the Order of Australia (AM): 2004. Awarded by the Governor-General for services to education, particularly in the fields of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management.
Associate Lecturer Helen Watt (Education and Social Work) received an award from Division E of the American Educational Research Association for the best Ph.D. thesis in the developmental area .
