Vice-Chancellor's Awards
2009 Winners
Vice-Chancellor's
Teaching Award (TAFE)
Ms Anna Shaw, Team Leader (Information Communication Technology),
TAFE School of Engineering, Technology and Trades
Recipient of this Award for:
- improving service through the development of systems and processes
- improving student experience and student pathways
- developing staff capability
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Vice-Chancellor's Teaching
Award (TAFE Training Initiative)
Ms Melinda Eason, Teacher and Co-ordinator of the Mumgu-dhal tyama-tiyt
(Pathways) Indigenous youth program, TAFE School of Sustainable
Futures
Recipient of this Award for:
- highly commendable work with Indigenous youth
- providing a safe and secure environment for Indigenous students
- providing a connection with the Indigenous community, and access
to greater career opportunities for Indigenous people
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Vice-Chancellor's Teaching
Award (Higher Education)
Dr Blair Kuys, Lecturer, Faculty of Design
Recipient of this Award in the 'Early Career' category in relation
to Product Design Engineering and Industrial Design disciplines,
for:
- a major contribution to the implementation of industry linked
projects at Swinburne
- ensuring quality learning and teaching through curriculum development
- engaging students to foster learning
- increasing student skills for ready graduate employment
- raising Swinburne's international profile, through papers presented
at the IASDR Conference in South Korea, and attendance at the
Austrade exhibition in Korea
- sustaining innovative teaching methods and quality student outcomes
over time, thus winning major achievement awards over the past
three years
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Ms Nicki Wragg, Head of Academic Group, Commmunication Design,
Faculty of Design
Recipient of this Award in the 'Individual' category in relation
to her research development practice paradigm, for:
- establishing Swinburne Honours graduates as leaders in their
field and potential design researchers
- effective teaching focussing on real-world applications and
research
- influencing, motivating and inspiring student learning
- involvement in making positive changes to the Honours program
- input in the Faculty's growth and development as a center of
excellence in learning
- promoting Communication Design externally, and gaining extensive
recognition over the past three years
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Dr Carolyn Beasley, Lecturer, Writing, Faculty of Higher Education,
Lilydale
Recipient of this Award in the 'Individual' category in relation
her academic teaching at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, for:
- successfully motivating and inspiring individuals in a correctional
facility to achieve their goals - four students received a Master
of Arts in Writing and a fifth was awarded the Graduate Certitificate
in Writing; three of these students are undertaking PhDs.
- her tutelage in helping students achieve a number of significant
publications, awards and grants - conference papers presented
around the world by proxy and videolink; writing and publishing
children books; work performed at two writers festivals and a
poetry festival; winning two human rights awards and a $40,000
AIATSIS grant; and winning two short stories competitions
- gaining great respect and support from the wider community
of writers and the prison institution
- successfully replicating a graduation ceremony in high prison
security restrictions, with the help of the students, prison education
centre and Swinburne staff
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Vice-Chancellor's
Research Award
Dr Arul Arulrajah, Senior
Lecturer, Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure, Faculty of Engineering
and Industrial Sciences
Recipient of this Award for:
- prolific success in winning competitive and industry research
grants
- leading a number of unique, industry-funded research projects
- collaboration with various national and international researchers
in various research projects and publications
- contribution to the internationalisation of Swinburne's research
- development of a research focus in the niche area of sustainable
materials usage in geotechnical engineering applications, and
solving sustainability issues for the civil engineering industry
- renewal of the geotechnical research laboratory at Swinburne,
funded by successful competitive university equipment grants -
resulting in a state of the art geotechnical laboratory at Swinburne
for both research and teaching
- an extensive publication record, including publications in A*
and B* ranked journals, and 43 citations recorded on Scopus
- supervision of five PhD students in applied research with industry
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Professor Yun Yang, Professor and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty
of Information and Communication Technologies
Recipient of this Award for:
- significant contribution to Swinburne's
research excellence, and the University's national and international
reputation
- leadership in his research work with government,
industry partners, research students, early career researchers
and research collaborators
- success in winning external research
funding (including four ARC grants and two CRC projects)
- extensive publication record, including publications in highly
ranked journals
- supervision of six PhD students, with a 75% completion rate
- contribution to various research-related policies and procedures
- Good teaching nexus - IBL placements, recruitment of vacation
scholarship students, and other coursework students, and research
incorporation into coursework teaching
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The Centre for Micro-Photonics Team, Faculty of Engineering and
Industrial Sciences - Dr Peter Zijlstra, Dr James Chon and Professor
Min Gu
Recipient of this Award for:
- developing a novel five-dimensional optical storage using gold
nanorods to achieve the world's highest storage densities
- publication in the high impact journal 'Nature', and selection
for the cover page of the May 21, 2009 Issue
- giving the University outstanding publicity at national and
international levels
- raising Swinburne's profile as a supportive environment for
research students
- successfully focussing and targeting research to deliver impact
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Vice-Chancellor's Research Award
(Early Career)
Dr Baohua Jia, Research Fellow, Centre for Micro-Photonics, Faculty
of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
Recipient of this Awardfor:
- research excellence in the fields of nanophotonics and biophotonics
- successfully securing competitive ARC grants, and particularly
a multi-million dollar Victorian Sciences Agenda grant
- sucessfully planning and managing the ARC Centre of Excellence,
CUDOS project
- conducting world-class research, and publication of high-quality
papers in prestigious international journals
- successfully attracting and supervising high quality research
students
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Dr Akbar Rhamdhani, Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering and Industrial
Sciences
Recipient of this Award for:
- research excellence in the area of process metallurgy
- successful research grants worth $471, 000, and for developing
strong links with industry, other universities and the CSIRO
- leading the development of a Green Energy Lab at Swinburne for
teaching and research
- oustanding research publication
- leading the internationalisation of the curriculum in mechanical
engineering
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Vice-Chancellor's
Industry Engagement Award
The Site Environmental Management
Team, Department of Horticulture and Environment, TAFE School of
Creative and Service Industries
(Ms Leisa Brough, Mr Ken
Fraser, Mr Graeme Christie, Mr Peter Higgins, Ms Rachel Lowe, Ms
Jessica Davison, Ms Linda Norman, Ms Helen Ramsay, Mr Gabe Markovics,
Ms Suzanne Lockie, Ms Tess Maguire, Ms Vicki Meraklis, Ms Nicole
Kramp, Mr James Grady, Mr Elliott Hayes,
Mr Sheroy Wadia)
Recipient of this Award for:
- successful development of innovative courses in Site Environmental
Management
- best practice in site environment management
- gaining industry endorsement for the quality of Swinburne's
vocational education
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Vice-Chancellor's
Community Engagement Award
Dr Ron Kluvers, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business
and Enterprise
Recipient of this Award for:
- successful development of the project 'Financial Literacy for
Not-For-Profit Organisations'
- enhancement of the University's reputation for community engagement
- successful strengthening of community organisations across Victoria
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Vice-Chancellor's
Entrepreneurship Award
The Senior VCAL Business Skills Team - Prahran, TAFE School of
Sustainable Futures (Ms Pierina Sassela
Recipient of this Award for:
- successful development and delivery of the Victorian Certificate
of Applied Learning (VCAL) program at the Prahran Campus
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Vice-Chancellor's
Internationalisation Award
The Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne
Professional Learning and School of Engineering and Science, Sarawak
(Dr Akbar Rhamdhani, Ms Kay Salehi, Professor Ajay Kapoor, Dr Yat
Wong, Mr Anatoli Vakhguelt, Mr Chandrasekar Palanisamy)
Recipient of this Award for a project on internationalisation,
using: group work as a vehicle for engaging students in the process
of broadening perspectives and building inter-cultural skills, which
has:
- contributed to Swinburne's research output
- provided opportunities for national and international collaborations
- shared teaching practice on internationalisation, and promoted
innovative teaching and related research
- supported academic staff to internationalise the curriculum,
through designing and researching innovative learning and teaching
methods
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Vice-Chancellor's
Sustainability Award
The National Centre for Sustainability and the Business &
Community Sustainability Team, TAFE School of Sustainable Futures
(Mr Scott McKenry, Mr Damien Sweeney, Mr Chris Alenson, Mr Martin
Pritchard, Ms Stephanie Madeley)
Recipient of this Award for the innovative and collaborative 'Sustainable
Ambassador's Program' in the key areas of:
- promotion of environmental sustainability for business, government
and the community sector
- curriculum development related to environmental, social, cultural
and financial sustainability
- research related to environmental, social, cultural and financial
sustainability
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Vice-Chancellor's
Intersectoral Collaboration Award
Mr Aaron Blicblau,
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
Recipient of this Award
for the successful incorporation of the engineering unit 'Materials
and Processes' into Higher Education, TAFE, Swinburne College and
Swinburne Sarawak programs
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Vice-Chancellor's
Leadership and Service Excellence Award
The Rover Team-Information Resources Group, Information Technology
Services and the Swinburne Student Amenities Association
Recipient of this Award for:
- providing frontline IT support service to students using the
Hawthorn, Lilydale and Prahran libraries
- improving student satisfaction at Swinburne
- contributing significantly to the general sense that 'Swinburne
is a great place to study'
- positive collaboration between different areas
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The Swinburne Electronic Re-Enrolment Process Team (Mr Bryan Cranston
and Mr David Shields), Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Recipient of this Award for the succesful implementation of an
electronic re-enrolment process, now in use in five Higher Education
Faculties to provide:
- improvements to student service
- improved efficiency in enrolment processes
- a mechanism for tracking re-enrolments
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