Congratulations to our Dean’s Research and HDR Award winners!
Published on the 13 Aug 2020
The Dean's Research Awards celebrate excellent research performance by academic staff and Higher Degree Research candidates within UNSW Arts & Social Sciences.
Due to COVID-19 we are unable to host our Awards Ceremony this year, but we pass on our warmest congratulations to the following winners for their exceptional achievements.
Academic Excellence
- Dean's Research Award for Best Monograph
Associate Professor Jessica Whyte for her book: The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism (London: Verso, 2019).
- Dean's Research Award for Best Monograph by an Early Career Researcher
Dr Elaine Jing Zhao for her book: Digital China's Informal Circuits: Platforms, Labour and Governance (London and New York: Routledge, 2019).
- Dean's Research Award for Best Monograph by an Early Career Researcher - Honourable Mention
Dr Michael Peters for his book: Regulating the Rise of China: Australia's Foray into Middle Power Economics (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
- Dean's Research Award for Best Creative Work
Dr Sonya Lifschitz for her multimedia work for piano, video and spoken word: Stalin's Piano.
- Dean's Research Award for Achievements by an Early Career Researcher
Dr Michael Richardson for his outstanding research achievements since completing his PhD.
- Dean's Research Award for Achievements in Research Leadership
Associate Professor Elizabeth Thurbon for her significant contribution to the research efforts of her peers and colleagues.
- Dean's Research Award for Best HDR Supervision
Dr Fiona Morrison for her outstanding track record in Higher Degree Research supervision.
- Dean's Research Award for Best Doctoral Thesis
Dr Zahra Stardust for her dissertation: Alternative Pornographies, Regulatory Fantasies and Resistance Politics.
- Dean's Research Award for Best HDR Publication (joint award)
Marco Susino for his journal article: 'Cultural stereotyping of emotional responses to music genre' in Psychology of Music.
Isabelle Wentworth for her journal article: 'Body Time: A Cognitive Perspective on Don DeLillo's The Body Artist' in Poetics Today.
Global Impact
- Dean's Research Award for Scholarly Impact
Dr Michele Zappavigna for her book: Discourse of Twitter and Social Media: How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web (London: Bloomsbury, 2012).
Social Engagement
- Dean's Research Award for Society Impact
Associate Professor Tema Milstein for her outstanding body of research on ecocultural communication, and the longstanding and ongoing social impact of the research.
- Dean's Research Award for Exceptional HDR Social Engagement with Global Impact
Tracey Donehue for her outstanding contribution in creating a just society and improving the lives of marginalised and disadvantaged communities.