Best Doctoral Thesis Prize
The Faculty Best Doctoral Thesis Prize aims to encourage and reward the postgraduate researcher’s exceptional achievement in producing a PhD thesis. The prize is worth $1,000, and has been awarded each year since 2003 to the most outstanding PhD thesis, which has been awarded the doctorate in the current calendar year, based on the examiners’ reports.
Nomination
Schools and Research Centres may nominate two candidates each. The nomination is to be accompanied by a brief letter from HOS or PGRC, copies of all three examiners‘ reports, and the thesis abstract. At least two examiners’ reports are to be unequivocal ‘1’; one may be a ‘2’. The nomination should be submitted to the Faculty Research Administrator.
Assessment
The prize-winner is usually selected by a HDC sub-committee consisting of the Director of Postgraduate Research, the Associate Dean for Research, the Presiding Member of the Faculty and a 'neutral' Head of School.
Best doctoral thesis protocol (PDF) (61 Kb)
The prize is awarded at next Faculty’s prize-giving event.
For any additional information, please contact A/Prof Stephen Fortescue
Prize-winners
2011: Dr Megan Carrigy for her thesis titled 'Performing History, Troubling Reference: Tracking the Screen Re-enactment' supervised by Professor Jodi Brooks (School of the Arts and Media).
2010: Dr Craig Lundy for his thesis titled 'Deleuze, History and Becoming', supervised by Professor Paul Patton (History and Philosophy) and co-supervised by Dr Simon Lumsden (History and Philosophy).
2009: Dr Sean Bowden for his thesis titled 'The Ontological Priority of Events in Gilles Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense', supervised by Prof Paul Patton (History and Philosophy) and co-supervised by Dr Simon Lumsden (History and Philosophy).
2008: Dr Diana Adis Tahhan for her thesis titled 'Touching at Depth: Intimate Spaces in the Japanese Family', jointly supervised by Dr William Armour (Languages and Linguistics) and Professor Andrew Metcalfe (Social Sciences and International Studies).
2007: Dr Blanca Tovias de Plaisted for her PhD thesis entitled 'Resistance and Cultural Revitalisation: Reading Blackfoot Agency in the Texts of Cultural Transformation, 1870-1920', jointly supervised by Professor David Cahill (School of History and Philosophy) and Associate Professor Sue Kossew (School of English, Media and Performing Arts).
2006: Dr William Martin (School of English) for his PhD thesis entitled 'The recurrence of rhythm: Configurations of the voice in Homer, Plato and Joyce', supervised by Associate Professor Bill Ashcroft (School of English) and Associate Professor Peter Kuch (School of English)
2005: Dr Tara Forrest (School of Modern Language Studies and School of Media, Film and Theatre) for her PhD thesis entitled 'The politics of imagination in Benjamin, Kracauer, and Kluge.', supervised by Dr Jodi Brooks (School of Media, Film and Theatre) and Associate Professor Gerhard Fischer (School of Modern Language Studies)
2004: Dr Craig Turnbull (School of History) for his PhD thesis entitled 'To make a desirable place of residence: Improvement and the landscape of the home in Chicago, 1890-1920', supervised by Professor Ian Tyrrell (School of History); and
Dr Kane Race (NCHSR) for his PhD thesis entitled 'Pleasure consuming medicine', supervised by Associate Professor Rosalyn Diprose (School of Philosophy) and Professor Susan Kippax (National Centre for HIV Social Research).
2003: Dr Steven Wakefield (Department of Spanish & Latin American Studies) for his PhD thesis entitled 'Returning Medusa's Gaze: Baroque Intertext in Alejo Carpentier' supervised in the Department of Spanish & Latin American Studies by Drs John Brotherton and Stephen Gregory.
