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Medals and Awards Nominations Closing

Just a reminder that the deadline for nominations for the Society’s medals and awards for 2021 closes on 31 March, so get your nominations in!

 

  • Rutherford Medal – for  exceptional research, scholarship or innovation by a person, or team, in any field of engineering, humanities, mathematics, sciences, social science, or technology
  • Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Award– for excellent, innovative co-created research, conducted by Māori, that has made a distinctive contribution to community wellbeing and development in Aotearoa

Communication, Leadership and Application

  • Callaghan Medal – for outstanding contribution to science communication, in particular raising public awareness of the value of science to human progress
  • Thomson Medal – for outstanding contributions to the organisation, support and application of science and/or technology in New Zealand
  • MacDiarmid Medal – for scientific research that demonstrates the potential for application to human benefit

Early Career Researcher Awards

Humanities and Social Sciences

Physical and Biological Sciences

  • Hector Medal – for outstanding work in chemical, mathematical, or physical sciences
  • Hutton Medal – for significantly advancing understanding in animal sciences, earth sciences or plant sciences 

Technology and Applied sciences

  • Pickering Medal – for excellence and innovation in the practical applications of technology
  • Scott Medal – for engineering science and technology work of great merit by a researcher in New Zealand 

Research funds and opportunities

  • Charles Fleming Senior Scientist Award – an annual research grant worth up to $10,000 to support the research of a senior scientist in New Zealand.
  • Charles Fleming Publishing Award an annual award worth up to $8,000 to support the preparation of scientific books and relevant publications.
  • Hutton Fund – Funding of $1,000 for research in New Zealand zoology, botany and geology.
  • Skinner Fund – Funding of $1,000 for research in the study of the history, art, culture, physical and social anthropology of Māori and Polynesian peoples.