Research awards

Postgraduate Publication Award

Applications for the current (Round 2/2008) close on 30 June 2008. Students eligible to apply for this current round must submit their thesis between 1 June and 31 August 2008.

The Postgraduate Publications Awards scheme is designed to encourage research degree candidates to disseminate their research findings to a wider public through publication in professional journals or books.The scheme provides a modest income to students who wish to write up some of their research for publication while they await the results of their examination.

Eligibility: Open to postgraduate research students who have submitted or are about to submit their thesis. Eligible candidates are required to apply in the selection round that coincides with the date of their thesis submission.

Details: http://www.mrgs.monash.edu.au/scholarships/other/index.html

Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal

There are ten (10) awards awarded per year (normally one from each faculty) to the doctoral student judged to have presented the best thesis in that year provided that the nominee meets an overall level of excellence required for the award of the medal.

The nominee will have fulfilled the requirements for the degree and had his/her result ratified at one of the Research Graduate School Committee meetings in the previous year.

Congratulations to Dr Benny Nasution (from the Caulfeld School of IT), who won the award for 2007. His thesis title was 'Trusted transaction secure network: agent-based distributed security control system for traffic on the internet'. His supervisor was Dr Asad Khan. Previous winners of the award in the Faculty of Information Technology include:

2006 - Dr Gillian Oliver
Caulfield School of Information Technology
Thesis title 'Information in organisations: a comparative study of information cultures'
Supervisor Prof. Sue McKemmish.

2005 - Dr. Xiaozhe Wang
Clayton School of Information Technology
Thesis title 'Characteristic-based forecasting for time series data'
Supervisor Prof. Kate Smith-Miles.

2004 - Dr. Iman Poernomo
Clayton School of Information Technology
Thesis title 'Variations on a Theme of Curry and Howard: The Curry-Howard Isomorphism and the Proofs-as-programs Paradigm Adapted to Imperative and Structured Program Synthesis'
Supervisor Prof. John Crossley.

2003 - Dr Livia Iacovino
Caulfield School of Information Technology
Thesis title 'Ethical-legal Frameworks for Recordkeeping: Regulatory models, Participants and their Rights and Obligations'
Supervisor Dr. Graeme Johanson.

2002 - Dr Linda Dawson
Caulfield School of Information Technology
Thesis title 'An investigation of the use of object-oriented models in requirements engineering practice'
Supervisor Dr Peta Darke.

2001 - Dr Tao Chen
Clayton School of Information Technology
Thesis title 'Adaptive Order Statistics Based Filters And Transform Domain Filters for Image Restoration'
Supervisor Associate Professor Hong Ren Wu.

Vice-Chancellor's Commendation For Doctoral Thesis Excellence

Congratulations to Dr. Joanne Evans from Caulfield School of Information Technology who won this award in 2007. Her thesis title was "Building capacities for sustainable recordkeeping metadata interoperability". Her supervisor was Professor Sue McKemmish.

(The Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, is awarded to a nominee who is not ranked first for their faculty, but that the Schoalrships and Award committee feels in any other year could have been a successful Mollie Holman Medal recipient).

Vice-Chancellor's Commendation For Masters Thesis Excellence

The Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Masters Thesis Excellence is awarded to Masters by Research students who will have fulfilled the requirements for the degree and had their result ratified by the relevant faculty committee, or in the case of MPhil candidates by the Research Graduate School Committee. Nominations must be lodged through the faculty awarding the degree.

There normally shall be three (3) awards per year across all faculties and no more than five (5) awards per year. Nominations are requested in January from the schools.

Please note this award was introduced in 2007 for Masters by Research students.