Other Awards and recipients
There are a number of community awards that recognise University staff and their contributions to higher education teaching and enhancing the student experience.
Academics awarded for outstanding services to education
USQ academics Associate Professor Dorothy Andrews and Dr Marian Lewis have been honoured for their oustanding local, national and international services to education.
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Award-winning research project becomes University hallmark
Associate Professor Aileen Cater-Steel and Dr Jacquie McDonald’s paper: 'Developing Research Supervisors: Breaking down internal barriers and drawing on resources from the Australasian academic community' was selected for the Best Paper award at the Inquiring Pedagogies ( iPED) 2009 conference in Coventry, UK.
USQ professor wins textbook prize
Professor David Dowling is a joint winner of the prestigious Best Tertiary Education Original Textbook Prize for authoring a textbook with fellow Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) grant recipients and co-authors Dr Anna Carew from the University of Tasmania and Discipline Scholar Associate Professor Roger Hadgraft from The University of Melbourne.
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USQ shows leadership in digital education and e-research
Dr Peter Evans and Dr Birgit Loch were honoured during the Interoperability Demonstration Event Australia 2010 (IDEA10) forum, receiving Encouragement Awards as part of the Australian Regional Finals of the Learning Impact Awards.
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Lecturer top of class
The brightest stars from Hervey Bay classrooms were recognised with teaching awards at the annual Education Hervey Bay Awards ceremony. Among the winners of the three major Awards was USQ Fraser Coast Education lecturer Trevor Black. Trevor took out the Award for Tertiary level teaching.
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Business lecturer tops the class
Ms Johanna Makin, who teaches Commerce at USQ Fraser Coast, has won the CPA Australia Divisional Award for the
segment on Assurance Services and Auditing.
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Business lecturer tops the class
Go WEST marks a successful year
The project team of GO Women in Engineering, and technology (Go WEST) celebrated the conclusion of a highly-successful year with colleagues, students and community members on December 11.
The team’s success has been recognised and honoured recently in the Queensland Government - Our Women, Our State Awards - and the USQ Equal Opportunity for Women Achievement Award.
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Go WEST marks a successful year
State honour for Go WEST
Best of the West Awards to recognise outstanding women
Inaugural Awards assist women in career development
Dr Ann Shorten Doctoral Thesis Award
Dr Kim Teh from the Faculty of Business (Fraser Coast campus) took out the inaugural Dr Ann Shorten Doctoral Thesis Award for best PhD thesis in the field of Education Law during the past two years. Dr Teh’s winning thesis looked at how school principals are coping with emerging legal issues across many countries, and proposed a framework for understanding strategies to minimise legal risk.
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Local lecturer takes out top award