Awards and achievements

External Awards

• Dr Arosha Weerakoon, School of Dentistry 
  • Winner 2019 Universities Australia Pitch it Clever competition
• Professor Paul Hodges, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
  • Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
  • GRAMMER European Spine Journal Award
• Professor Deb Theodoros, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Life Membership of Speech Pathology Australia
• Dr Allison Mandrusiak, Dr Roma Forbes & Ms Katrina Williams, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Australian Financial Review Higher Education award for Student Learning for the Physiotherapy Standardised Practice Program
• Dr David Klyne, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • 2019 Fulbright Scholarship
• Dr Anna Rumbach, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • National AAUT Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
• Professor Murray Phillips, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
  • International Fellow of the American (National) Academy of Kinesiology
• Dr Hang Ta, School of Pharmacy and AIBN
  • NHF Emerging Leaders Fellowship from the National Heart Foundation
  • (late) Paul Korner innovation award ($20K) for the highest-ranked application in Australia
• Associate Professor Blake McKimmie, Professor Barbara Masser & Professor Mark Horswill, School of Psychology
  • EdX Prize for Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and Learning for CRIME101X: The Psychology of Criminal Justice 
• Dr Tim Ballard, School of Psychology
  • Australian Psychological Society’s Early Career Award
• Dr Melissa Day, School of Psychology
  • Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Paul Bourke Award
• Professor Matt Sanders, School of Psychology
  • The Australian 2019 Research magazine (subscriber content) award recipient: Australia’s top researcher in the field of family studies
• Professor Stephen Birch, Centre for the Business & Economics of Health
  • 2019 International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Distinguished Scientist Award for Behavioural, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research
• Dr Catherine Quinn, Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research
  • ​Recipient of two national early career researcher awards (Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol & other Drugs; Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy)
• Professors Justin Kenardy and Julie Henry, School of Psychology
  • Elected as fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

UQ Awards

• Professor Sarah Roberts-Thomson (HaBS), Mr Sam Harris (HaBS), Ms Jessica Tsai (HaBS), Ms Elizabeth Wardrop, Ms Ailsa Dickie, Mr Nathan La Burniy, Mr Victor Ho and Dr Sam McKenzie.
  • ePortfolio project: UQ Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning
• Professor Louise Hickson et al, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • UQ 2019 Partners in Research Excellence Commendation (with Sonova Pty Ltd) 
• Associate Professor Jodie Copley, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • UQ Awards for Teaching Excellence
• Dr Anna Hatton, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • UQ Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
• Tim Barlott, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • UQ Commendations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
• Associate Professor Sean Tweedy et al, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
  • UQ 2019 Partners in Research Excellence Commendation (with International Paralympic Committee)
• Associate Professor Irina Vetter, School of Pharmacy and IMB
  • UQ 2019 Excellence in HDR Student Supervision
• Professor Barbara Masser, School of Pschology
  • UQ 2019 Partners in Research Excellence Award (with Red Cross Blood Service)

Faculty Awards

2019 HaBS Staff Awards:

Teaching and Learning

• Teaching and Learning awards went to Grace Atkinson (HMNS), Grace Kirby (Psychology) and Maree Maloney (SHRS) with commendation going to Dr Kristen Tulloch (HaBS) for excellence in tutoring/demonstration; Dr Roma Forbes (Early Career Citation) (SHRS), Liz Springfield (SHRS), Paul Treschman (Early Career Citation) (HMNS)for Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning Award; Dentistry Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Team- Dr Emma Bartle (Team Leader), Cheryl Chin and Jia Ru Toh for Programs That Enhance Learning Award and Dr Norman Ng (HaBS) for Teaching Excellence Award.

Academic

• Global Engagement Award went to Dr Emma Beckman (HMNS)
• Academic leadership awards went to Dr Peter Lewis (NMSW) 

Research

• Research awards went to Dr Gary Chan (CYSAR), Dr Jenny Setchell (SHRS) for Early Career Research Excellence Awards; Dr  Alina Morawska (Psychology) and Professor Laurence Walsh AO (Dentistry) for the Higher Degree Research Supervision Awards; Dr Annie Hill (SHRS) and Professor Mark Horswill (Psychology) for the Research Translation Awards; and Professor Jason Connor (CYSAR) and Professor Jenny Ziviani (SHRS) for the Research Mentorship Awards

Professional

• Professional staff awards went to Kirsty Harris (Faculty/Dentistry) and Taryn Krynauw (Psychology)  for the Customer Service Award, Stacey Vogel (Psychology) for the Leadership award, Rachelle Croton (Psychology) with commendations going to Amy Hunter (Faculty) and Cheryl Byrnes (Psychology) for the Above and Beyond Award awards; and the Dentistry Preclinical Team (Bobbie Jennings, Leah Beaupeaur and Eddie Gullotta for the Team Work Award.