Honorary awards
Academic dress for Honorary Awards
Academic dress for Honorary degrees
The academic dress for an honorary degree is the academic dress for that degree which is set out in section 5 and sections 8 to 9 of the Resolutions of the Senate.
For example, the academic dress for doctors (except for doctors of philosophy) is a black velvet bonnet with gold cord, and a festal gown and hood of scarlet cloth, faced and lined as follows:
- Doctor of Science in Agriculture - gown faced with green silk, and hood lined with green silk.
- Doctor of Agricultural Economics - gown faced with green silk and edged to a depth of 5 centimetres with copper silk and hood lined with green silk and edged to a depth of 5 centimetre with copper silk.
- Doctor of Science (Architecture) - gown faced with red-brick silk, and hood lined with brick-red silk with a 5 centimetres line of white silk between the scarlet cloth and red-brick silk lining.
- Doctor of Letters - gown faced with cream silk, and hood lined with cream silk.
- Doctor of Dental Science - gown faced with purple and cream silk, and hood lined with purple silk and edged to a depth of 5 centimetres with cream silk.
- Doctor of Science in Economics - gown faced with amber and murrey silk, and hood lined with amber silk and edged to a depth of 5 centimetres with murrey silk.
- Doctor of Letters in Education - gown and hood of scarlet cloth faced and lined with white silk.
- Doctor of Letters in Social Work - gown faced with royal blue silk and hood lined with royal blue silk edged to a depth of 5 centimetres with white silk.
- Doctor of Engineering - gown faced with light maroon silk, and hood lined with light maroon silk.
- Doctor of Laws - gown faced with blue silk, and hood lined with blue silk.
- Doctor of Medicine - gown and hood of scarlet cloth, faced with purple silk and hood lined with purple silk. Photo below, former Chancellor the Hon Justice Kim Santow conferring the honorary degree upon Professor Sir Michael Marmot, 2006, courtesy of Memento Photography:
- Doctor of Science - gown faced with amber silk, and hood lined with amber silk.
- Doctor of Veterinary Science - gown faced with amber and purple silk, and hood lined with amber silk edged to a depth of 5 centimetres with purple silk.
- Doctor of Music - gown faced with lilac silk, and hood lined with lilac silk.
Academic dress for Honorary Fellows
Section 4 of the Resolutions of the Senate sets out the academic dress for Honorary fellows.
The academic dress is:
- Honorary Fellow: a stole 15 centimetres wide of royal blue silk edged to a depth of 5 centimetres with gold silk. Photo below: former Chancellor the Hon Justice Kim Santow conferring the title of Honorary Fellow upon John D Brockhoff, 2006, courtesy of Memento Photography:
