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, including professional staff employed in University shared services providing services to our Faculty, our suite of annual excellence awards celebrates 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 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 values-based excellence
Our annual staff excellence awards recognise values-based 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, including professional staff employed in University shared services providing services to our Faculty.
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 Staff Supervision
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.
Award recipients, whether individuals or teams, will be awarded $5000 to support a project or activity related to the recipient’s career development or work which benefits recipients and our Faculty.
Award recipients will be announced live at an event with the Dean and the Faculty's senior leadership, incorporating the formal award ceremony, which will be held on:
Monday 29 November 2021
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
- Tuesday 17 August 2021
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9.00AM
Nominations open
- Monday 11 October 2021
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5.00PM
Nominations close
- Monday 29 November 2021
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12.00pm to 2.00pm
Award recipients announced live at awards ceremony (online or in person TBC, subject to physical distancing restrictions)
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 honour roll for examples of successful nominations
Discuss the potential:
- Discuss the potential of your nomination for award with your supervisor, mentors and trusted colleagues
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Prepare your nomination
Commence your online nomination form:
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 or Institute Director; or, for nominees in single-Department Schools, Head of School; or, for nominees in the Faculty directorate or University shared services, 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)
- Small teams may allow 1 additional page per extra team member (i.e. a team of 3 may have 5 A4 pages [3+2])
- Large teams should submit an enquiry to mdhs-hr@unimelb.edu.au for advice on presenting the team's profile
- 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 11 October 2021
- Note the online nomination form strictly enforces word limits, and page limits must 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 previous award winners as they talk about the application process, what the recognition meant to them and why they recommend applying.
A full list of MDHS Staff Exellence Awards recipients can be found on our Honour Roll.
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Professor Meredith Temple-Smith
Meet the 2020 recipient for Outstanding Graduate Researcher Supervision award
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Indigenous Eye Health team
Meet the 2020 recipients of the Excellence in Indigenous Health award
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The Doherty Institute Communications Team
Meet the 2020 recipients of the Excellence in Engagement—Public Value award
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Learning and Teaching Unit
Meet the 2020 recipients of the Outstanding Student Services award
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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 2020
Award recipients were announced live at an online awards ceremony with the Dean and the Faculty's senior leadership on Monday 23 November 2020
View a short video featuring some of our 2020 recipients
Strategic Excellence
MDHS Award for Excellence in Indigenous Education
Aunty Barbara Wingard
Tileah Drahm-Butler
Dr David Denborough
Dr David Rose
Cheryl White
Kylie Dowse
Aunty Deb Bowman
Katie Christensen
Paul Herbert
Aunty Patricia Kemp
Ian Maund
Danita Martin
Larissa Minniecon
Aunty Robyn Moylan
Joseph Oui
Karl Rashleigh
Janneen Wanganeen
Rachel Whiteman
Department of Social Work,
Melbourne School of Health Sciences
For excellence in collaboration and teamwork between Indigenous and
non-Indigenous Faculty through the Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work
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Josh Cubillo
Indigenous Development
For excellence in the design and development of the
Ngurra-Jarrddjak winter school program,
increasing Indigenous post-graduate student numbers across the Faculty
MDHS Award for Excellence in Indigenous Health
Melbourne Laureate Professor Hugh Taylor AC
Mitchell Anjou AM
Walter Bathern
Jordan Bryan
Rachael Ferguson
Rosamond Gilden
Dr Guy Gillor
Karl Hampton
Fiona Lange
Lesley Martin
Dr Tessa Saunders
Nick Schubert
Emma Stanford
Nick Wilson
Carol Wynne
Indigenous Eye Health, Centre for Health Equity,
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
For excellence in sustained translational research, significantly improving
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander eye health outcomes in Australia
MDHS Award for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion
Dr Asiel Adan Sanchez
Department of General Practice,
Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in research, community-based initiatives and advocacy
furthering the education of health professionals on LGBTQI health
MDHS Award for Excellence in Mentoring
Associate Professor Michelle Dowsey
Department of Surgery, St. Vincent’s Hospital,
Melbourne Medical School
For excellence impactful, values-based mentoring,
building capacity and supporting emerging talents in the field of orthopaedics
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Associate Professor Matthew Spittal
Centre for Mental Health,
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
For excellence in inspiring, tailored and
values-based mentoring across a range of research areas
MDHS Award for Leadership Excellence
Shawana Andrews
Poche Centre
For excellence in driving Indigenous development across the Faculty and
role-modelling our Faculty’s values
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Lindsay Karakiozakis
People and Culture
For excellence in the development of others, role-modelling our
Faculty’s values and supporting the University’s COVID-19 response
MDHS Award for Excellence in Internationalisation
Dr Anita Horvath
Department of Medical Education,
Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in innovative international partnerships,
delivering expanded clinical research training for future international
health leaders in both Australia and Indonesia
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Dr Kelley Graydon
Chris Waterworth
Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology,
Melbourne School of Health Sciences
For excellence in designing and delivering an international placement program,
providing Master of Clinical Audiology students with global perspectives and
experiences in clinical audiology and health care
Research and Research Training
MDHS Award for Excellence in Team-Based Research Programs
Professor David O'Neal
Professor Alicia Jenkins
Dr Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy
Dr Barbora Paldus
Dr Melissa Lee
Dr Nisha Venkatesh
Dr Dale Morrison
Catriona Sims
Varuni Obeyesekere
Sue Kent
Katie Brown
Lesley Robinson
Emma Netzer
Hannah Jones
Department of Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital,
Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in the Diabetes Technology Research Group,
working nationally and internationally with and for people living with
Type 1 diabetes to improve their health outcomes
MDHS Award for Excellence in Industry-Engaged Research
Professor Robert Cowan
Professor Robert Briggs
Dr Adrienne Paterson
Dr Agnes Au
Evelyn Do
Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology,
Melbourne School of Health Sciences
For excellence in the HEARnet Clinical Studies unit,
improving benefits for adults and children using cochlear implants and
supporting long-term, productive collaborations with industry partners
MDHS Award for Excellence in Research by an Early-Career Researcher
Dr Meghan Bohren
Centre for Health Equity,
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
For excellence in advancing knowledge in public health and clinical practice,
improving the health and well-being of women and
newborns in low- and middle-income countries
MDHS Award for Outstanding Graduate Researcher Supervision
Professor Shyamali Dharmage
Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
For excellence in sustained and inspiring leadership,
mentorship and graduate supervision in public health research
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Professor Meredith Temple-Smith
Department of General Practice,
Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in sustained and inspiring leadership,
mentorship and graduate supervision in sexual and reproductive health and qualitative research
Learning and Teaching
Award for Sustained Excellence in Learning and Teaching
Dr Abi Brooker
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
For excellence in a developmental approach to teaching,
enhancing student wellbeing in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
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Associate Professor Jason Ivanusic
Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience,
School of Biomedical Sciences
For excellence in innovative teaching practices, driving active learning of anatomy and
inspiring students in the Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Biomedicine
Award for Learning and Teaching Achievement
Dr Clare McNally
Melbourne Dental School
For excellence in modernising the dental hygiene curriculum,
building community and collaboration to enable students to tell the story of their learning
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Dr Rosa McCarty
Dr Saw Hoon Lim
Associate Professor Terry Mulhern
Dr Alice Rota-Bartelink
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, School of Biomedical Sciences and
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
For excellence in interdisciplinary collaboration to develop graduate attributes,
transferable skills and life-long learning in the Bachelor of Biomedicine
Award for Program Innovation
Dr Charlotte Denniston
Dr Lisa Cheshire
Naomi Norris
Neville Chiavaroli
Associate Professor Stephen Lew
Department of Medical Education,
Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in a whole-of-course and team approach to
promoting professional practice throughout the MD
Engagement
MDHS Award for Excellence in Engagement—Partnerships
Professor Jodie McVernon
Professor James McCaw
Dr Nic Geard
Dr Rob Moss
Dr Freya Shearer
Dr David Price
Dr Patricia Campbell
Dr Eamon Conway
Dr Christopher Baker
Nefel Tellioglu Cetinkaya
Associate Professor Nick Golding
Dr Rebecca Chisholm
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity,
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health,
Melbourne School of Engineering and Faculty of Science
For excellence in modelling for Australian Government
pandemic preparedness and response activities
MDHS Award for Excellence in Engagement—Public Value
Rebecca Elliott
Catherine Somerville
Natalie Booth
Kayla Robertson
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
For excellence in The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity’s
COVID-19 communications strategy, successfully engaging and influencing the
public and other key stakeholders beyond the academy
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Associate Professor Victoria Palmer
Department of General Practice,
Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in the Co-Design Living Lab, a lived-experience model for
co-design in research, education and healthcare system improvement and transformation
Professional Excellence
MDHS Award for Professional Excellence and Innovation
Campus Reactivation Working Group and
Local Implementation Contributions,
led by Belinda Bain
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
For excellence in a team-based and collaborative approach to the
Faculty's Campus Reactivation Working group, planning, coordinating and operationalising
the safe return of staff to campus-based activity in 2020
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Sarah Marcola
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in values-based contributions and achievements,
enhancing the overall functioning of the Department of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology and the MD student experience
MDHS Award for Outstanding Student Services
Learning and Teaching Unit,
led by Kim Stevenson
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
For excellence in sustained, team-based professional services
enhancing the student experience across the student lifecycle,
including innovation, dedication and commitment to reducing
the impact of COVID-19 on students across the Faculty
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Helen D'Cruz
Department of Paediatrics, Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in dedicated service, values-based teamwork and behind-the-scenes innovative leadership, creating high-quality student experiences
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.
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