Recognising the outstanding efforts of UTS staff

The UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence were established in 2010 to celebrate the excellence in research, support and impact happening across our campus and in the wider community. 

The Vice-Chancellor’s Research Excellence Awards recognise the outstanding contributions UTS staff make towards helping shape the world we live in.

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Winner of the 2025 Chancellor’s Medal for Research Excellence

Distinguished Professor Brian Oliver, Discipline Leader in the School of Life Sciences, was awarded top honours at the 2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence. The prestigious Chancellor’s Medal for Research Excellence recognises outstanding research at UTS, demonstrating sustained excellence at the highest level over the years.

Professor Oliver has made significant contributions to respiratory medicine, where his research has deepened our understanding of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and the impact of environmental factors on respiratory disease.

2025 winners and finalists

Distinguished Professor Brian Oliver, winner of the Chancellor's Medal for Research Excellence

We do fundamental research. So for example, our work on air pollution has been cited by both The W-H-O, by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and it's all about reframing what we think is dangerous and what isn't dangerous. So we've shown that low level air pollution is dangerous. We've shown unequivocal data that helps support the greater rhetoric that living in cities is not great. And that model now has been used by researchers everywhere.

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