2021 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 2021.

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.

Winner

Distinguished Professor Dayong Jin, Faculty of Science

Finalist

Professor Heidi Norman, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Distinguished Professor Dayong Jin

VC Research Awards 2021: Dayong Jin

VC Research Awards 2021: Dayong Jin transcript

Our research is more focusing on translational research, getting the advances from material science and the photonics to interruptive biotechnology and analytical technology. The success was through our story about the COVID rapid test we've been developing for the last couple of months is one of the examples of how actually our research team can lead and overcome the challenge faced by everybody in the world now.

UTS Medal for Research and Teaching Integration

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

Winners

Professor Bem Le Hunte, Dr Susanne Pratt, Dr Alex Baumber, Dr Giedre Kligyte, Dr Jacqueline Melvold, Lucy Allen and Tyler Key, Transdisciplinary School

Finalist

Professor Yaowen Shan, UTS Business School

Professor Bem Le Hunte

VC Research Awards 2021: Bem Le Hunte

VC Research Awards 2021: Bem Le Hunte transcript

This team's work is important because of the unique context of the BCII cutting-edge research into transdisciplinary practices and research integration. We also research with an entire innovation ecosystem that we've helped to build. We include academics, students, industry partners, and professional staff as equal players in a research teaching nexus that is like no other.

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.

Winners

Distinguished Professor Fang Chen, Associate Professor Yang Wang, Dr Bin Liang, Dr Zhidong Li and Dr Jie Xu, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Finalists

Industry Professor Lindon Coombes, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research

Professor Qilin Wang, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Dr Phillippa Carnemolla, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building

Distinguished Professor Fang Chen

VC Research Awards 2021: Fang Chen

VC Research Awards 2021: Fang Chen transcript

The problems we are facing in this society is ageing infrastructure, so we use a smart machine learning technology, utilising all the data we collected, particular from utilities. This type of technology has a very wide use in all kinds of industry which involves asset management. Utilising data and the smart technology will facilitate better service provided to our citizens.

Research awards

Supervisor of the Year Award

Joint winners

Associate Professor Ilaria Vanni Accarigi, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Professor Justin Seymour, Faculty of Science

Research Leadership and Development Award

Winner

Associate Professor Ling Chen, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Research Excellence through Collaboration or Partnership Award

Winners

Professor Eryk Dutkiewicz, Dr Diep Nguyen, Emeritus Professor Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran, Professor Long Nghiem, Dr Tien-Vinh Nguyen, Dr Hoang Dinh, Dr Thuy Pham, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Early Career Research Excellence Award

Winner

Dr Maiken Ueland

Research Management and Development Award (Professional Staff)

Winner

Dr Lucy Buxton