The Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis
The Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis is awarded on an annual basis and consists of a medal for desk display. Four awards per year will be made (one per each of the faculty groupings listed below). Further information on the nomination process can be found in the PhD Handbook.
Faculty Groupings
(Note: groupings were different for 1997-1999)
Humanities and Creative Arts
(Faculties: Arts, Music, Victorian College of the Arts, Architecture Building and Planning)
Social Sciences
(Faculties: Economics & Commerce, Law, Education, Melbourne Business School)
Science and Engineering
(Faculties: Science, Engineering, Land & Food Resources)
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
(Faculties: Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, Veterinary Science)
Winners
2008
Humanities and Creative Arts
Roland George Burke (School of Historical Studies)
"The politics of decolonisation and the evolution of the international human rights project"
Social Sciences
Simon Andrew Butt (Faculty of Law)
"Judicial review in Indonesia: between civil law and accountability? A study of constitutional court decisions 2003-2005"
Science and Engineering
Daniel Enrique Gomez Alviarez (School of Chemistry)
"Optical properties of single semiconductor nanocrystals"
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Jonathan David Schertzer (Department of Physiology)
"Non-viral gene transfer of growth factors in skeletal muscle: implications for injury, regeneration and disease"
2007
Humanities and Creative Arts
Ahmad Luthfi Assyaukanie (Asia Institute)
"Muslim models of polity: Islamic arguments for political change in Indonesia, 1945-2005"
Social Sciences
Gaynor Williams (Faculty of Education)
"Improving intellectual and affective quality in mathematics lessons: how autonomy and spontaneity enable creative and insightful thinking"
Science and Engineering
John Papandriopoulos (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
"Resource optimization in multiuser communication networks"
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
James Gordon Ryall (Department of Physiology)
"Age-related changes in skeletal and cardiac muscle structure and function: effects of beta 2-adrenoceptor agonist administration"
2006
Humanities and Creative Arts
Djoymi Anne Baker (School of Art History, Cinema, Classics & Archaeology)
"Broadcast space: TV culture, myth and Star Trek"
Social Sciences
Penelope Anne Smith (Institute of Applied Economic & Social Research)
"Modelling business cycles through changes in regime"
Science and Engineering
Martin Daly de Jonge (School of Physics)
"High-accuracy measurements of the x-ray mass attenuation coefficients of molybdenum and tin: testing theories of photoabsorption"
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Christopher Michael Smith (Department of Medical Biology)
"The interplay of dendritic cells and T-helper cells in generating immunity to viruses"
2005
Humanities and Creative Arts
Simon James West (French, Italian & Spanish Studies)
"E tant' e dritta e simigliante cosa: translating Guido Cavalcanti"
Social Sciences
No Prize awarded this year
Science and Engineering
Lucia Hillegonda Gerarda Jose Boxelaar (Agriculture & Food Systems)
"Diversity and convergence in platforms for change: building social capability for land management"
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Sophocles Chrissobolis (Pharmacology)
"Mechanisms regulating cerebral artery function"
2004
Humanities and Creative Arts
Anthony Keith Birch (History)
"'Framing Fitzroy': contesting and (de)constructing place and identity in a Melbourne suburb"
Social Sciences
Peter James Fleming (Management)
"Diogenes go to work: culture, cynicism and resistance in the contemporary workplace"
Science and Engineering
Duncan Andrew Wild (Chemistry)
"Infrared spectroscopy of size selected anion complexes and clusters"
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Toula Bouras (Pathology)
"Molecular analysis of the estrogen receptor alpha pathway in human breast cancer"
2003
Humanities and Creative Arts
Mark Halsey (Criminology)
"On the name and nature: categorical and criminological marks of forest bodies"
Social Sciences
John Stachurski (Economics)
"Stochastic economic growth: an operator-theoretic approach"
Science and Engineering
Maziar Nikpour (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
"Reduced-rank signal processing"
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Peter Boag (Veterinary Science)
"Gender-specific gene expression in the porcine parasitic nematode Oesophagostomum dentatum"
2002
Humanities and Creative Arts
Marion Elizabeth Frere (History & Criminology)
"Corporeal punishment: prisons and sexual difference"
Social Sciences
Angela Paladino (Management)
"Comparing the resource based view and market orientation to understand organisational performance"
Science and Engineering
Nicole Fiona Bell (Physics)
"Neutrino oscillations and the early universe"
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
James Geoffrey Beeson (Medical Biology)
"Mechanisms of placental infection by Plasmodium falciparum"
2001
Humanities and Creative Arts
Nicole Denise Kruspe (Linguistics and Applied Linguistics)
"Semelai"
Social Sciences
Simon James Bell (Management)
"Organisational learning and internal marketing"
Science and Engineering
Daniel John Mortlock (Physics)
"Statistical gravitational lensing"
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Justin Raymond Hamilton (Pharmacology)
"Protease-activated receptors in coronary arteries"
2000
Humanities and Creative Arts
Justin Dominic Clemens (English)
"Institution, aesthetics, nihilism: the romanticism of contemporary theory"
Social Sciences
Brian Norman Gray (Language, Literacy and Arts Education)
"Accessing the discourses of schooling: English language and literacy development with Aboriginal children in mainstream schools"
Science and Engineering
Mark Peter Oxley (Physics)
"Inner-shell ionization by fast electrons in a crystalline environment"
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Paul Baden Sparks (Medicine – RMH)
"The influence of atrial arrhythmias and cardiac pacing on mechanical and electrical remodelling of the human atria"
1999
Humanities and Social Sciences
Robert Norman Paddle (History and Philosophy of Science)
"Changing scientific perspectives of the Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus)"
Science and Engineering
Jamie Scott Evans (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
"Studies in nonlinear filtering theory: Random parameter linear systems, target tracking and communication constrained estimation"
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Ingrid Eileen Scheffer (Medicine – Austin)
"Inherited epilepsy syndromes in multiplex families"
1998
Humanities and Social Sciences
Mark McDonald (Fine Arts, Classical Studies & Archaeology)
"Studies in printmaking and print collecting in Madrid (1584 - 1684) and the contribution of Pedro de Villafranaca y Malagon"
Science and Engineering
Anne-Maree Boland (Crop Production)
"Control of vegetative vigor of peach orchards"
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Patrick Reading (Microbiology & Immunology)
"The role of mannose-binding lectins in host defence against viral infections"
1997
Humanities and Social Sciences
Simon Marginson (Education Policy and Management)
"Markets in education: the formation of markets in Australian education since 1975"
Science and Engineering
Peter Stone (Agriulculture and Resource Management)
"The effects of post-anthesis heat stress on wheat yield and quality"
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Stephen Rogerson (Medical Biology)
"Cytoadherence and rosetting in Plasmodium Falciparum"