MDHS Staff Excellence Awards
Recognising teams and individuals demonstrating excellence in their contributions to our Faculty and the communities we serve
Recognising academic and professional teams and individuals at all levels across our diverse Faculty, our suite of annual excellence awards celebrates our staff, not only for what they have achieved, but also for how they have demonstrated our core values.
Our suite also provides 'scaffolding' for teams and individuals to build competitive cases for wider University and external recognition and reward. To this end, many of the awards are directly aligned to the University’s Staff Excellence Awards.
All awards are aligned with our Faculty’s strategic priority areas and core values of collaboration and teamwork, compassion, respect, integrity and accountability.
Teams and staff across our Faculty are strongly encouraged to nominate themselves, a colleague or a team for an award, join in celebrating award recipients, and collectively foster our culture of recognition and reward.
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Send us your feedback and suggestionsDiverse and inclusive awards celebrating excellence across our Faculty, Schools, Departments, Centres and Institutes
Our annual staff excellence awards recognise excellence demonstrated by continuing, fixed-term and sessional academic and professional teams and staff at all levels across our Faculty, Schools, Departments, Centres and Institutes.
Awards are available in the following categories:
Strategic Excellence
MDHS Award for Excellence in Indigenous Education
MDHS Award for Excellence in Indigenous Health
MDHS Award for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion
MDHS Award for Excellence in Mentoring
MDHS Award for Leadership Excellence
MDHS Award for Excellence in Internationalisation
Learning and Teaching
MHDS Award for Learning and Teaching Achievement
MDHS Award for Sustained Excellence in Learning and Teaching
MDHS Award for Program Innovation
Research and Research Training
MDHS Award for Outstanding Graduate Researcher Supervision
MDHS Award for Excellence in Team-Based Research Programs
MDHS Award for Excellence in Industry-Engaged Research
MDHS Award for Excellence in Research by an Early-Career Researcher
Engagement
MDHS Award for Excellence in Engagement—Partnerships Award
MDHS Award for Excellence in Engagement—Public Value Award
Professional Excellence
MDHS Award for Professional Excellence and Innovation
MDHS Award for Outstanding Student Services
Celebrating and supporting award recipients
Our Faculty is investing in award funding to support our great people to do their best work.
A pool of $85,000 in award funding has been allocated to be fairly and equitably distributed to 2020 award recipients, based on the number of recipients and the size of teams receiving awards.
Award funding is to support a project or activity related to the recipient’s career development or work which benefits recipients and our Faculty.
Award recipients are also invited to attend an event with the Dean and the Faculty's senior leadership, incorporating the formal award ceremony, which will be held on:
Monday 23 November 2020
12.00pm to 2.00pm
Venue TBC (online or outdoors, subject to physical distancing restrictions)
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Send us your feedback and suggestionsNominate for an award following these key dates and step-by-step instructions
Key dates
- Monday 10 August 2020
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9.00AM
Nominations open
- Monday 28 September 2020
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5.00PM
Nominations close
- Friday 6 November 2020
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Outcomes advised to nominators
- Monday 23 November 2020
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12.00pm to 2.00pm
Event for award recipients
Step-by-step instructions
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Explore the awards
Read the Awards Guidelines, including the:
- Key dates
- These instructions on how to nominate
- Eligibility and selection criteria for the award/s for which you are intending to submit a nomination
View previous award recipients:
- View the 2019 honour roll for examples of successful nominations
Discuss the potential:
- Discuss the potential of your nomination for award with your supervisor, as well as with mentors and trusted colleagues
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Prepare your nomination
Commence your online nomination form (*open from 10 August 2020):
Draft your written nomination:
- Include a summary paragraph describing the work for which you are seeking an award (maximum 200 words)
- Include your responses to all relevant selection criteria, as outlined under each award (maximum 2000 words)
Commission and attach two referee statements:
- Include one statement from a referee who may be internal or external to the Faculty and who should be able to comment specifically on the work for which you are submitting for award (maximum 1 A4 page)
- Include one statement from the nominee's Head of Department, Centre Director or Institute Director, or, for nominees in single-Department Schools, Head of School, or, for nominees in the Faculty directorate, portfolio Director or Chief Operating Officer (maximum 1 A4 page)
Prepare and attach a curriculum vitae:
- Include an up-to-date, abbreviated curriculum vitae for the nominee (for individuals, maximum 3 A4 pages; for teams, allow 1 additional page per extra team member (i.e. a team of 3 may have 5 A4 pages [3+2])
- Include, where you are nominating for a teaching-related award and the described activities include University subjects, a summary of results from the University's Subject Experience Survey and/or Quality of Teaching surveys in all relevant subjects for each of the last two years
Attach a photograph:
- Upload a recent, high-resolution photograph of yourself or, for team-based applications, your team
- In supplying the photograph, you agree to give the Faculty the right to use the photograph for the purpose of the award ceremony and for marketing and communications relating to the Faculty staff excellence awards scheme, including but not limited to publication on the Faculty's internet and intranet pages and inclusion in internal and external newsletters and email communications
- Note nominations for colleagues without their knowledge do not require a photograph
Attach optional supporting material:
- Maximum 5 A4 pages (or equivalent for websites, audio visual material)
- Clarify the reason for including supporting material in your written nomination
- In the case that your supporting material is a website (URL), media file or similar, you should attach these in an accessible format (e.g. MP3, MOV) or provide a link or appropriate information to access the material
Draft optional statement of performance relative to opportunity:
- If you request your nomination be considered relative to opportunity, then you should include a statement outlining the effects of personal circumstances, career interruptions and authorised leave of absences on the quantity, range, rate or consistency of the nominee's contributions and achievements over time
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Submit your nomination
Complete and submit your nomination online:
- Submit your completed nomination online by 5.00pm on Monday 28 September 2020
- Note the online nomination form strictly enforces word limits, and page limits should be adhered to—additional pages will not be considered by the selection committee
- Note all nominations are confidential
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Celebrating outstanding,
values-based contributions
Our suite of annual excellence awards celebrate our staff, not only for what they have achieved, but also for how they have demonstrated our core values.
Teams and staff across our Faculty are strongly encouraged to nominate themselves, a colleague or a team for an award. Hear some of our 2019 award winners as they talk about the application process, what the recognition meant to them and why they recommend applying.
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Professor Cathy Humphreys
Meet the 2019 recipient of the Excellence in a Research Team award
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Amy Bugeja
Meet the 2019 recipient of the Excellence in Engagement award
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Dr Megan Sharp
Meet the 2019 recipient of the Excellence Award for Diversity and Inclusion
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Associate Professor Lianne Schmaal
Meet the 2019 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Internationalisation
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship
Meet the 2019 recipient of Excellence in Engagement award
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Dr Snezana Kusljic
Meet the 2019 recipient of the Award for Sustained Excellence in Learning and Teaching
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Send us your feedback and suggestionsCongratulations to all staff whose outstanding, values-based contributions have been recognised in 2019
Award recipients were celebrated at a luncheon with the Dean and the Faculty's senior leadership on Monday 2 December 2019 at University House at the Woodward
Strategic Excellence
MDHS Award for Excellence in Indigenous Education
Dr Alyce Wilson
Dr Ngaree Blow
Dr Cindy Ahearn
Department of Medical Education,
Melbourne Medical School and LIME Network
For excellence in the First Nations Health team,
transforming the way Indigenous health is taught to medical students
MDHS Award for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion
Dr Megan Sharp
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
For excellence in LGBTI+ inclusion in the
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
MDHS Award for Excellence in Mentoring
Professor Julie Simpson
Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
For excellence as a mentoring model for promoting a
balanced, independent and sustainable research portfolio
MDHS Award for Leadership Excellence
Associate Professor Stephen Lew
Western Clinical School, Department of Medical Education,
Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in leading and developing others as
Clinical Dean, Western Clinical School
MDHS Award for Excellence in Internationalisation
Associate Professor Lianne Schmaal
Centre for Youth Mental Health
For excellence in a global alliance to elucidate
eurobiological signatures of depression and suicide
Research and Research Training
MDHS Award for Excellence in Team-Based Research Programs
Professor Cathy Humphreys
Dr Kristin Diemer
Dr Margaret Kertesz
Dr Lucy Healey
Dr David Rose
Dr Gemma McKibbin
David Gallant
Larissa Fogden
Jasmin Isobe
Anneliese Spiteri-Staines
Anna Bornemisza
Joanne Rowe
Department of Social Work,
Melbourne School of Health Sciences
For excellence in domestic and family violence research
MDHS Award for Excellence in Industry-Engaged Research
Professor Rana Hinman
Professor Kim Bennell
Dr Belinda Lawford
Dr Thorlene Egerton
Penny Campbell
Ben Metcalf
Alex Kimp
Department of Physiotherapy,
Melbourne School of Health Sciences
For excellence in a 10-year partnership with Medibank Private,
closing evidence-practice gaps in management of people with knee osteoarthritis
MDHS Award for Excellence in Research by an Early-Career Researcher
Dr Michelle Hall
Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine,
Department of Physiotherapy, Melbourne School of Health Sciences
For excellence in enhancing the therapeutic effects of
exercise for hip and knee osteoarthritis
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Dr Scott Griffiths
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
For excellence in driving fundamental advances in
our knowledge of eating and body image disorders
Learning and Teaching
Award for Sustained Excellence in Learning and Teaching
Dr Snezana Kusljic
Melbourne School of Health Sciences
For excellence in rising to the challenge of teaching bioscience subjects to
current and future health professionals
Award for Learning and Teaching Achievement
Dr Angelina Fong
School of Biomedical Sciences
For excellence in practical teaching re-imagined:
Training and developing skills for life beyond the lab and university
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Dr Enes Makalic
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
For excellence in an effective, motivating and personally relevant methodology of
teaching foundational biostatistics to multi-disciplinary students from diverse backgrounds
Award for Program Innovation
Dr Alison Morgan
Prarthna Dayal
Professor Peter Annear
Dr Krishna Hort
Dr Matthew Reeve
Ms Katherine Gilbert
Professor Ajay Mahal
Professor Barbara McPake
Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
For excellence in blended learning to build health systems
across 70 countries: The UNICEF Nossal Health Systems Strengthening Course
Engagement
MDHS Award for Excellence in Engagement—Partnerships
Professor Karin Thursky
Associate Professor Kirsty Buising
Dr Arjun Rajkhowa
Department of Medicine and Radiology,
Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in optimising antimicrobial use:
national and international engagement in antimicrobial stewardship
MDHS Award for Excellence in Engagement—Public Value
Amy Bugeja
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
For excellence in PsychTalks:
The Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
forum for ideas and discussion
Professional Excellence
MDHS Award for Professional Excellence and Innovation
Petula Frantz
Lloyd Alderman​
Vinitha Thakur
Alan Sweeney​
Rene Tessmer
Centre for Youth Mental Health
For excellence in finance systems transformation,
building a cloud-based solution to
enable operational excellence across multiple entities
Celebrating and supporting award recipients
Our Faculty is investing in award funding to support our great people to do their best work.
Award recipients, whether teams or individuals, were awarded $5,000 to support a project or activity related to their career development or work of benefit to our Faculty and the recipient.
Award recipients were also invited to attend a luncheon with the Dean and the Faculty's senior leadership, incorporating the formal award ceremony, which was held on:
Monday 2 December 2019
12.00pm to 2.00pm
University House at the Woodward
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