2024 UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence

These annual awards recognise the outstanding contribution UTS staff make towards helping shape the world we live in. Below are the winners for 2024.

Research medals

Chancellor’s Medal for Research Excellence

This award honours outstanding research at UTS that demonstrates sustained research excellence at the highest level over a period of several years.

Award winner

Distinguished Professor Chin-Teng (CT) Lin, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Finalists

Distinguished Professor Brian Oliver, Faculty of Science

Professor Talis Putnins, UTS Business School 

Distinguished Professor Chin-Teng Lin, winner of the Chancellor's Medal for Research Excellence

VC Research Awards 2024: CT Lin

VC Research Awards 2024: CT Lin transcript

Everyone today is talking about AI. In our new centre, we bring human intelligence and artificial intelligence together. Many of the concerns people have today about AI are because it is not yet human-centric. People wonder, how do we work with AI? Can we trust it? These are challenges we want to solve.

UTS Medal for Research and Teaching Integration

This award recognises an academic or a team of academics for their outstanding research and outstanding teaching at UTS, especially those who demonstrate their ability to successfully integrate research, teaching and learning across a range of research and teaching activities.

Award winner

Dr Marie Morelato, Faculty of Science

Finalists

Distinguished Professor Tracy Levett-Jones, Faculty of Health

Doctor Marie Morelato, winner of the UTS Medal for Research and Teaching Integration

VC Research Awards 2024: Marie Morelato

VC Research Awards 2024: Marie Morelato transcript

My research focuses on forensic intelligence, which shifts the primary role of forensic science from a service provider to the criminal justice sytem, to a more proactive, disruptive and preventive role. In particular, I focus a lot on illicit drug markets ,and in order to better understand the trafficking and consumption of drugs in Australia, my research focuses on analysing and also combining a large variety of data sources.

UTS Medal for Research Impact

This medal is awarded for research that has achieved considerable impact outside the academic community, including within the creative and/or professional practice(s). It recognises the contribution that research makes to the economy, society, environment or culture beyond the contribution to academic research.

Award winner

Distinguished Professor Martin Loosemore, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building

Finalists

Distinguished Professor Tuan Van Nguyen, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Dr Emma Camp, Faculty of Science

Distinguished Professor Martin Loosemore, winner of the UTS Medal for Research Impact

VC Research Awards 2024: Martin Loosemore

VC Research Awards 2024: Martin Loosemore transcript

Our research is primarily concerned with trying to develop a sense of social consciousness in one of the largest industries in Australia, the construction industry, which means developing an awareness of and concern for the general unfairness and injustices in society. My end goal will be able to ask the average person in the street what they thought of the industry and for them to be able to respond to me and say that they'd be proud to work in the industry no matter what their background.

Research awards

Supervisor of the Year Award

Award winner

Associate Professor Diep N. Nguyen, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Research Leadership and Development Award

Award winner

Associate Professor Nicolas Hart, Faculty of Health

Research Excellence through Collaboration Award

Award winners

Andrew Tovey, Professor Jason Prior, Dr Erica McIntyre, Aditi Phansalkar, Laure-Elise Ruoso, Alexandra Butler, Institute for Sustainable Futures

Research Translation Award

Award winner

Associate Professor Negin Shariati and Dr Rasool Keshavarz, Faculty of Engineering and Informaton Technology

Early Career Research Excellence Award

Award winner

Dr Jiayan Liao, Faculty of Science

Research Management and Development Award (Professional Staff)

Award winner

Dr Alexandra Thomson, Faculty of Science