The annual Staff Awards ceremony was held last week, celebrating the remarkable achievements of some of Flinders’ best and brightest staff.

The Staff Awards celebrate efforts from across the breadth of the University, including research endeavours, teaching efforts and the contributions of professional staff. Individuals and teams who have made outstanding efforts in leading activities that promote reconciliation were also celebrated, as were staff who have been with Flinders for 25 years, who were acknowledged in recognition of their dedicated service and contributions over a sustained period of time.

Following a Welcome to Country by Petiola Wilson and his daughter, Vice-Chancellor Professor Colin Stirling gave a brief university update before the awards were presented.

The Staff Service Awards were presented by Vice-President Corporate Services Mark Gregory, who reflected on how times have changed since the recipients began with Flinders 25 years ago – anyone remember the millennium bug?!

The 2024 Staff Service Awards recipients are:

• Dave Barnett
• Professor Eric Bouvet
• Alison Cropley
• Associate Professor Jochen Kaempf
• Leslie Morrison
• Gill Rann
• Lee Travis
• Julie Voyer
• Professor Tracey Wade

Mark also presented the 2024 Professional Staff Awards to individuals and teams that embody and exemplify the Flinders University ethos and values in everything they do.

The 2024 Flinders Professional Staff Award winners are:

• Flinders Student-Centred Award
  • Klaus Koefer
• Flinders Innovation Award
  • Elise Tucker
• Flinders Integrity Award
  • Anthony Hails
• Flinders Courage Award
  • Zoe Uili
• Flinders Excellence Award
  • Eliza Gill
• Flinders Wellbeing Award
  • Chris O’Grady
  • Christine Kenny
• Dream Team Award
  • Flinders City Campus Hypercare Team

Professor Romy Lawson, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, presented the Flinders Reconciliation Awards on behalf of RAP Oversight Committe Co-Chairs Professor Simone Tur and Professor Jonathan Craig. These awards were presented to individuals and teams in recognition of their outstanding efforts in leading activities or projects that promote reconciliation.

The 2024 Flinders Reconciliation Award winners are:

• Flinders Reconciliation Individual Award
  • Kristofer Lacho
  • Uncle Richard Fejo
• Flinders Reconciliation Team Awards
  • Corporate Communications Team
  • Flinders University Student Association
  • Library RAP Working Group
  • Standing Strong, Yarning up Loud Committee

In his first as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Raymond Chan presented the 2024 Vice-Chancellor’s Researchers Awards to researchers across their career journeys who are making remarkable contributions to Flinders research endeavours, and making a difference to lives around the world.

• Early Career Researchers
  • Dr Lemma Bulto
  • Dr Simone Deegan
  • Dr Mariya Goray
  • Dr Lauren Lines
  • Dr Huah Shin Ng
• Mid-Career Researchers
  • Associate Professor Mike Morley
  • Associate Professor Amy Reynolds
  • Professor Andrew Rowland
  • Dr Pankaj Sharma
  • Professor Emma Thomas
• Research Leadership
  • Associate Professor Daniel King
  • Professor Udoy Saikia
  • Professor James Smith
• Research Impact and Engagement (Early Career Researcher)
  • Dr Bryce Brickley
  • Dr Tets Kimura
• Research Impact and Engagement (Mid-Career Researcher)
  • Associate Professor Martin Breed
  • Associate Professor Rachel Milte
• Research Impact and Engagement (Research Team)
  • CareSearch Team
• 2024 Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision Award
  • Associate Professor Tully Barnett

Professor Lawson was once again back on stage to present the 2024 Vice-Chancellors Awards for Excellence in Teaching in recognition of teaching excellence that has occurred in 2024.

The 2024 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching went to:

• Dr Helen Harrison
• Dr Rajesh Johnsam
• Associate Professor Sky Marsen

The following teams received Commendation Team Award

• Team 1
  • Associate Professor Ali Baker
  • Dr Fayes Rosas Blanch
  • Dr Joanne Buckskin
  • Azra Coombe
  • Associate Professor Natalie Harkin
  • Mr Dennis O’Brien

• Team 2
  • Helen Louise Anscomb
  • Associate Professor Christine Barry
  • Dr Dusan Matusica

The 2024 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Innovation in Teaching was awarded in recognition of recent responsive and sustainable educational initiatives.

The 2024 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Innovation in Teaching was awarded to:

• Dr Afshin Tanouri

Commendations were awarded to:

• Dr Hongyi Liang
• Dr Hayden Tronnolone
• Team Award
  • Dr Chido Alozie
  • Associate Professor Sam Elliott
  • Dr Gareth Furber
  • Dr Matthew Norris
  • Mr Damien Raidis
  • Miss Madison Richter

Congratulations to all our 2024 Staff Award winners – what a wonderful recognition of the contributions you have made to Flinders University. Thank you for your efforts.