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General criteria for medals and awards

General criteria that apply for all medals and awards offer...
  • General criteria that apply for all medals and awards offered by Royal Society Te Apārangi

Guidance for Royal Society Te Apārangi medal and award selection panels

Guidelines for selection ...
  • Guidelines for selection panels for the Society's medals and awards.

Research Honours

Our annual event to celebrate excellence in research, scholarship and innovation in Aotearoa
  • Our annual event to celebrate excellence in research, scholarship and innovation in Aotearoa

New design of medal and award certificates

In 2020, the Society’s medal and award certificates w...
  • In 2020, the Society’s medal and award certificates were refreshed with the incorporation of designs by Vianney Parata (Te Ātiawa Ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Toa, Ngā ...

Callaghan Medal

Communication award, for outstanding contribution to science and/or technology com...
  • Communication award, for outstanding contribution to science and/or technology communication, in particular raising public awareness of the value of science and/or tech...

Charles Fleming Award for Environmental Achievement

Environmental science award for protection of ...
  • Environmental science award for protection of the New Zealand environment, awarded every three years.

Cooper Award

Early Career Research Excellence Award for Technology, Applied Sciences and Engineering
  • Early Career Research Excellence Award for Technology, Applied Sciences and Engineering

Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities

Early Career Research Excellence Award for e...
  • Early Career Research Excellence Award for emerging researchers in humanities research in New Zealand, awarded annually.

Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences

Early Career Research Excellence Award ...
  • Early Career Research Excellence Award for emerging researchers in social sciences research in New Zealand, awarded annually.

Hamilton Award

Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Science
  • Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Science

Hatherton Award

The Hatherton Award is awarded for the best paper in physical sciences, earth scie...
  • The Hatherton Award is awarded for the best paper in physical sciences, earth sciences or mathematics and information sciences by a New Zealand University PhD, awarded ...

Hector Medal

An award for outstanding work involving chemical, physical and mathematical and infor...
  • An award for outstanding work involving chemical, physical and mathematical and information sciences by a researcher in New Zealand, awarded annually.

Hercus Medal

Health sciences award for excellence in molecular and cellular sciences, biomedical s...
  • Health sciences award for excellence in molecular and cellular sciences, biomedical science or clinical science and public health, awarded every two years

Humanities Aronui Medal

Humanities award for research or innovative work of outstanding merit in t...
  • Humanities award for research or innovative work of outstanding merit in the Humanities, awarded annually.

Hutton Medal

An award for outstanding work involving the earth, plant and animal sciences by a res...
  • An award for outstanding work involving the earth, plant and animal sciences by a researcher in New Zealand, awarded annually.

Jones Medal

Mathematical sciences award for lifetime achievement, awarded every two years.
  • Mathematical sciences award for lifetime achievement, awarded every two years.

Leonard Cockayne Lecture Award

Commemorating the life and work of Leonard Cockayne by the encourag...
  • Commemorating the life and work of Leonard Cockayne by the encouragement of botanical research in New Zealand.

MacDiarmid Medal

Scientific research award for outstanding scientific research that demonstrates t...
  • Scientific research award for outstanding scientific research that demonstrates the potential for application to human benefit, awarded annually.

Mason Durie Medal

Award for advances in the frontiers of social science, awarded annually.
  • Award for advances in the frontiers of social science, awarded annually.

Metge Medal

Social sciences award for excellence and building relationships in the social science ...
  • Social sciences award for excellence and building relationships in the social science research community, awarded every two years.

Pickering Medal

Technology award for excellence, awarded annually.
  • Technology award for excellence, awarded annually.

Pou Aronui Award

Humanities award for distinguished service to humanities-aronui over a sustained ...
  • Humanities award for distinguished service to humanities-aronui over a sustained period of time, awarded annually.

Rutherford Medal

The Rutherford Medal recognises preeminent research, scholarship or innovation by...
  • The Rutherford Medal recognises preeminent research, scholarship or innovation by a person, or team, in any field, or fields, of engineering, humanities, mathematics, s...

Scott Medal

Engineering science and technology award for work of great merit by a researcher in Ne...
  • Engineering science and technology award for work of great merit by a researcher in New Zealand, awarded every two years.

Tahunui-a-Rangi

Recognising excellence in invention and creation.
  • Recognising excellence in invention and creation.

Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award

Te Tohu Rangahau Māori o Te Kōpūnui o Te Apārangi Royal Society
  • Te Tohu Rangahau Māori o Te Kōpūnui o Te Apārangi Royal Society

Te Puāwaitanga Research Excellence Award

Te Tohu Kairangi Rangahau o Te Puāwaitanga recognises e...
  • Te Tohu Kairangi Rangahau o Te Puāwaitanga recognises eminent and distinctive contribution to Te Ao Māori, and to Māori and Indigenous knowledge.

Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Award

The Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Award recognises co-created rese...
  • The Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Award recognises co-created research conducted by Māori.

Te Rangi Hiroa Medal

Social sciences award for work in social history, cultural diversity, socioec...
  • Social sciences award for work in social history, cultural diversity, socioeconomics or medical anthropology, awarded every two years.

Thomson Medal

Award for outstanding contributions to the organisation, support and application of ...
  • Award for outstanding contributions to the organisation, support and application of science and/or technology and/or the humanities in New Zealand, awarded annually.

Beaven Medal

Health Research Council of New Zealand Medal
The Beaven Medal is awarded to an indiv...
  • Health Research Council of New Zealand Medal
    The Beaven Medal is awarded to an individual or research team for excellence in translational health research that has had...

Liley Medal

Health Research Council of New Zealand Medal
This award is presented to an individual...
  • Health Research Council of New Zealand Medal
    This award is presented to an individual or team whose recent research has produced a significant breakthrough within the ...

Te Tohu Rapuora Medal

Health Research Council of New Zealand Medal
This award recognises the cont...
  • Health Research Council of New Zealand Medal
    This award recognises the contribution of an individual, research team or community group whose work has demonstrated lead...

The Prime Minister's Future Scientist Prize

Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Ānamata
The Prime Minister’...
  • Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Ānamata
    The Prime Minister’s Future Scientist Prize...

The Prime Minister's Science Teacher Prize

Te Puiaki Kaiwhakaaroaro Pūtaiao The Prime Minister’...
  • Te Puiaki Kaiwhakaaroaro Pūtaiao The Prime Minister’s Science Teacher Prize...

The Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize

Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Maea
The Prime ...
  • Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Maea
    The Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize

    This Prize is for an outstanding emerging scientist who has had their PhD or...

The Prime Minister's Science Communication Prize
  • Te Puiaki Whakapā Pūtaiao
    The Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize

    This prize will be awarded to either a practising scientist who has an interest or pa...

The Prime Minister’s Science Prize

Te Puiaki Pūtaiao Matua a Te Pirimia
The Prime Minister’...
  • Te Puiaki Pūtaiao Matua a Te Pirimia
    The Prime Minister’s Science Prize

    This prize is for a transformative scientific discovery or achievement, which has had a ...

The Prime Minister’s Space Prize for Professional Excellence

This prize is for a professional wo...
  • This prize is for a professional working in the space sector and/or emerging aviation sector, recognising their outstanding achievements and contribution to the sector,...

The Prime Minister’s Space Prize for Student Endeavour

This prize is for a Year 12 or 13 student...
  • This prize is for a Year 12 or 13 student who is undertaking or has recently completed a science, technology or engineering project related to the space sector and/or e...

Discontinued awards

Information on awards that are no longer presented.
  • Information on awards that are no longer presented.

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