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Nomination Process

Nomination Process

Each year, the RMIT Research Awards and Prizes recognise and celebrate the research achievements of staff, including Early Career Researchers (ECR), and Higher Degree by Research (HDR) candidates who have made significant contributions to research excellence and impact and research training.

Timelines

The nomination will be open from 12 July to 7 September 2021.

Nomination submission details

Eligibility

The Research Awards Panel has the discretion to consider any nominations for more than one category of award or prize, including categories under both the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Awards and Prizes and the RMIT Research Awards and Prizes. Please refer to individual award and prize categories for eligibility requirements specific to the award category, including eligibility for previous recipients of awards and prizes.

Application

Details of eligibility and selection criteria are available here.

Nomination

All awards and prizes are by nomination only (with the nominee’s consent). Nominations from Schools, Colleges and RMIT Vietnam must receive endorsement from the respective Dean/Head of School or equivalent, noting that the Dean/Head of School or equivalent can also be the nominator. Multiple nominations from Schools are encouraged. In cases of multiple nominations for the same category from within the same School, the Dean/Head of School or equivalent may be asked to rank those nominations.

Nomination forms and requirements

Nomination requirements vary by category. Please refer to the nomination and documentation section of each award or prize for details.

Please note that each award or prize requires the completion of 2 statements of support, addressing the selection criteria. A summary of the statements required for specific awards and prizes is available here:

Nomination documents are provided below:

The final nomination form and supporting materials must be combined into a single PDF document and uploaded to the online nomination form. It is preferred those documents be combined by using Adobe Acrobat (not by scanning them).

For any queries, contact reward.recognition.research@rmit.edu.au and include the name of the award/prize in the subject header.

Submission

Full Documentation required by 7 September 2021

The following full documentation will be required to be submitted via the online submission system by 7 September 2021.

  • Nomination Form (with signatures, can be signature or uploaded email endorsing nomination).
  • Nominee Statement (word limit is 200 words per selection criteria response) – included in the Nomination Form.
  • 2 Statements of Support (max 0.5 x A4 page for each statement, single-sided).
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Nomination Process

Each year, the RMIT Research Awards and Prizes recognise and celebrate the research achievements of staff, including Early Career Researchers (ECR), and Higher Degree by Research (HDR) candidates who have made significant contributions to research excellence and impact and research training.

Research Awards Categories

Each year the RMIT Research Awards and Prizes recognise and celebrate the research achievements of staff including Early Career Researchers and Higher Degree by Research candidates who have made significant contributions to research excellence and impact, and research training.

Past recipients

The research excellence of RMIT academics and candidates (Researchers) is celebrated at the Annual Teaching and Research Awards hosted by Vice-Chancellor Professor Margaret Gardner (2009-2014) and Vice-Chancellor and President Martin Bean CBE (from 2015).

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Acknowledgement of country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.

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