Medical School Research Excellence Awards

Nominations are now open for the inaugural 2024 Medical School Research Excellence Awards. These awards aim to not only recognise the recipients but also to celebrate and highlight the outstanding research achievements of your colleagues.

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Key dates for 2024

Nominations open: 14 October 2024
Nominations close: 25 October 2024
Awards announced: 11 November 2024 at the Medical School Research Showcase, TRI Auditorium, Woolloongabba (Register here for the Showcase)

Award categories

Research Partnership and Impact Award: Recognising outstanding individuals or teams that have made a demonstrable impact on the health of communities and acknowledges the leadership, partnership and excellence of multidisciplinary research. The winner of the award will give a plenary talk at the Medical School Research Showcase and receive a prize of $10,000.
Higher Degree Research Student Excellence Award: Recognising researchers who have made an exceptional contribution through their research, and translation of research into practice and/or policy into improved health care or education practice. In two categories: Clinical and Non-clinical. Prizes of $1,000 for each category will be awarded.

Depending on the quality of the nominations, up to two award winners may be selected for the HDR student categories. Subject to the quality of the nominations for a category, an award may not be made.

Nominations

Award selection is based primarily on written statements addressing the selection criteria. Nominations must clearly outline how the person or team has demonstrated:

Significant and outstanding achievement.
A meaningful and lasting impact.

Eligibility

All Medical School research staff and Medical School HDR students active in their program are eligible to be nominated.

This includes academic staff who are continuing and fixed-term appointees as well as conjoint, secondee and academic title holders (excluding adjunct) conducting research under the auspice of the Medical School.

Contractors are not eligible.

The research must have been conducted through the Medical School.

Higher Degree Research Student Excellence Award

Nominees must be enrolled or studying towards a PhD or MPhil Degree within a Medical School organisational unit
Nominee must have successfully passed Confirmation of Candidature (R1)
Nominee must be active in their HDR program at the Medical School prior to application.

Nomination process

Self-nominations are allowed.

If you are nominating a colleague, you may choose to tell the person that you are nominating them before submitting your nomination. However, all nominees will be advised of their nominations via email once all submissions are received. When nominating a team, please advise of the team leader as the contact person.

When completing the nomination, you must incorporate the award-specific criteria applicable for each award type. Only one nominator is required.

Please keep all nominations concise and any additional support materials to a maximum of two pages.

Each research award criteria are explained below.

Research Partnership and Impact Award

The Research Partnership and Impact Award is the premier research award given by the Medical School. It recognises and celebrates an outstanding individual or team who has translated and/or implemented innovative research programs that have made a demonstrable impact to enhanced health of Queensland communities or toward addressing global health challenges. The award is made in recognition of significant partnerships, delivering benefits to the community and involving researchers at all career stages. This award is made in recognition of exemplary research leaders and their dedication as champions of research excellence and the role they play in researcher capacity building and in valuing multidisciplinary research teams that are promoting career development and pathways for the research workforce.

Prize of $10,000.

A team or individual who have embraced and can demonstrate:

1. Examples of collaboration with internal and or external stakeholders.

2. That have resulted in significant tangible improvements, change and success within the School, and more broadly at the Faculty and The University of Queensland.

3. Which align with School, Faculty and/or The University of Queensland’s objectives, characteristics and principles.

4. Demonstrate impact for end-users of research.

The winner of the award will present their research at the Medical School Research Showcase on 11 November 2024.

Higher Degree Research Student Excellence Award

The Higher Degree Research Student Excellence Award will be awarded to a Researcher who has made an exceptional contribution through their research to discover new knowledge aligned to Medical School research strengths, translation of research knowledge into practice and/or integration of research into improved health care and/or education practises across the School and the broader community. Service to the Medical School research community over the last 12 months will also be considered.

In two categories, Clinical and Non-clinical.

Prize of $1,000 for each category.

An individual who:

1. Made exceptional research/discovery contribution.

2. Translation of research knowledge into practice or policy and/or education practices.

3. Demonstrated service to the Medical School research community in the last 12 months.