About the Awards

The Vice-Chancellor's Awards recognise the outstanding contributions staff make to the University of Wollongong. Awards are presented to recipients in a formal ceremony on 19 June 2009.

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Service for General Staff

The Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Service is presented each year to members of general staff who have achieved an exceptional success, given outstanding service and/or shown recognised initiative in their work.

Nominations close 9 March 2009.

Award Policy
Nomination form [rtf 241kb]

For more information contact Julie Croft

Marie Lewis Award

The Marie Lewis Award is in honour of the late Marie Lewis, and recognises the achievement of a member of the general staff who is completing a degree. Selection is based on academic performance and service to the University.

More about the Awards

Nominations close 9 March 2009.

For more information contact: Nicky Bishop

25 Years Service Awards

Awards are presented each year to members of academic and general staff who have served the University for 25 years.

Nominations are initiated from Personnel Services Division and recipients will be notified early in 2009.

For more information contact: Julie Croft

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning

The Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning (OCTAL) is awarded each year to an academic staff member who has made a major contribution to teaching and learning excellence within the University of Wollongong.

Awards are also presented to general staff, sessional tutors/demonstrators and early career academic staff who are doing excellent work to enhance the University's high standards of teaching and learning.

Faculty Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning

Faculty recipients for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning are those academic staff who are recognised for their contribution to teaching and learning within each Faculty.

More about the Awards

Nominations for 2008 have closed.

For more information contact: Monika Lacey

Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Research

This group of awards recognises the contributions that academic staff and their partners are making towards research excellence and include awards for:

Excellence in Research Supervision (Nominations close 9 March 2009)
Research Excellence for Senior Researchers
Research Excellence for Emerging Researchers
Outstanding Achievement in Research Partnership
(Nominations for all three categories close 27 March 2009)

Nomination process and guidelines

For more information contact: Vicky Wallace or Mari Dwarte (Research Supervision Award only)

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Community Engagement

The Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Community Engagement will be awarded annually to an academic or general University of Wollongong staff member or team of staff (including staff employed by the University's controlled entities) in recognition of significant community engagement activities.

Nominations close 23 March 2009.

For more information contact: Community Engagement Manager.

Vice-Chancellor's Special Award for Outstanding and Exceptional Achievement

Special Awards are presented to an individual, Department or Unit of the University, selected by the Vice-Chancellor, in recognition of outstanding and exceptional achievement.

These awards are initiated at the discretion of the Vice-Chancellor.

For more information contact: Julie Croft

Last reviewed: 24 February, 2009