2018 Medals and Awards - New deadline for call for nominations

The following suite of medals and awards are being offered in 2018 by Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Please note: The Academy Executive Committee is focused on increasing the diversity of nominations from under-represented groups, particularly with respect to gender, ethnicity and employment context.

• Callaghan Medal – for outstanding contribution to science communication, in particular raising public awareness of the value of science to human progress

• Cooper Award – for emerging researchers in technology, applied sciences, and engineering research in New Zealand, awarded annually

• Dame Joan Metge Medal – for excellence and building relationships in the social science research community,

• Hamilton Award – for the encouragement of early-career researchers currently based in New Zealand for scientific  research in New Zealand

• Hatherton Award – for the best scientific paper by a PhD student at any New Zealand University in chemical sciences, physical sciences, or mathematical and information sciences

• Hector Medal – for outstanding work in chemical, physical sciences, or mathematical and information sciences

• Humanities Aronui Medal – for research or innovative work of outstanding merit in the humanities

• Hercus Medal – for excellence in molecular and cellular sciences, biomedical science or clinical science and public health

• Hutton Medal – for significantly advancing understanding in animal sciences, earth sciences or plant sciences

• Jones Medal – is awarded biennially, for lifetime achievement in pure or applied mathematics or statistics by a person with substantial connections to New Zealand.

• MacDiarmid Medal – for outstanding scientific research that demonstrates the potential for application to human benefit. Nominations of teams welcome.

• Mason Durie Medal – for advances in the frontiers of social science

• Pickering Medal – to recognise excellence and innovation in the practical applications of technology. Nominations of teams welcome.

• Pou Aronui Award – for distinguished service to the humanities-aronui

• Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities – for humanities research in New Zealand

• Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences – for social sciences research in New Zealand

• Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award – for early career researcher to recognise innovative Māori research with a promising trajectory (new medal for 2018)

• Rutherford Medal – for exceptional contributions to New Zealand society and culture through activities in the broad fields of science, mathematics, social science, and technology

• Te Puāwaitanga Award – in recognition of research that has made an eminent and distinctive contribution to Te Ao Māori and Indigenous knowledge (new medal for 2018)

• Thomson Medal – for outstanding contributions to the organisation, support and application of science and/or technology in New Zealand.

Please email Academy (academy@royalsociety.org.nz) if you wish to submit a new nomination and you will be provided with a URL to access the web portal.