In 2020, ISF researchers and partners were acknowledged for their innovative and rigorous work in the following ways...

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Our Melrose Park project contributed to project partner the City of Parramatta being named Leadership City in the annual Smart City Council Australia and New Zealand Awards, while our Lake Macquarie Smart Beaches project took out the Future of Place award and Melrose Park came in as a finalist in this category.
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ISF and UTS Operations won the Outstanding Leadership Team awards at the 2020 Green Gown Australasia awards for a collaborative project to reduce food waste at the university.
Our Australia and EU Roadmap for Sustainable Finance research won the 2020 UTS CBSI Research Impact Team Award, and our Improving Gender Diversity in Companies project, delivered with the UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, was nominated as a finalist.
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ISF research director and PhD candidate Naomi Carrard was awarded the 2020 National Council of Women of NSW Australia Day Award.
ISF research director Melita Grant received a ‘highly commended’ in the UTS research awards 2020.
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ISF research director Prof. Jason Prior was a finalist in the ‘Outstanding Contribution by an Individual’ category of the Australasian Land and Groundwater Association’s 2020 Annual Industry Excellence Awards.
ISF research consultant and PhD candidate Jess Macarthur received a 2020 UTS Career And Professional Development award.
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ISF project partners the City of Canterbury Bankstown won the 2020 UN SDG Action Award for our project, Closing the Loop.