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Best Doctoral Thesis Prize

Scientia Building steps A competition for the Faculty best doctoral thesis is being managed by the Higher Degree Committee with a view to rewarding 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, on the basis of the examiners' reports. The prize is awarded at next Faculty’s prize-giving event.

Schools, Research Centres and Programs may nominate one candidate each. The nomination should be accompanied by copies of all three examiners' reports, and submitted to Dr Margarita Grebennikov, Dean’s Unit (for submission by mail), or MBG14 (submission in person) by 15 December each year. In the past, the prizewinner has been a graduate who received three unequivocal '1' reports.

The prize winner is usually selected by a HDC sub-committee consisting of the Associate Dean for Research, the Presiding Member of the Faculty and a 'neutral' Head of School.

For any additional information, please contact Dr Margarita Grebennikov, Faculty Research Administrator, on m.grebennikov@unsw.edu.au.

Prize-winners

2007: Dr Blanca Tovias de Plaisted for her PhD thesis entitled 'Resistance and cultural revitalisation: Reading Blackfoot agency in the texts of cultural transformation in the texts of cultural transformation 1970-1920', 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.