2019 Medals and Awards

The following medals and awards are being offered in 2019 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.

Early Career Researcher Awards

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

Communications

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

 Physical Sciences

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

Leadership and co-created research

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

• Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Award – recognises excellent, innovative co-created research, conducted by Māori, that has made a distinctive contribution to community wellbeing and development in Aotearoa

Biological and Medical Sciences

• Hutton Medal – for significantly advancing understanding in animal sciences, earth sciences or plant sciences
• Charles Fleming Award for Environmental Achievement

Humanities and Social Sciences

• Te Rangi Hiroa Medal – for work in social history, cultural diversity, socioeconomics or medical anthropology
• Humanities Aronui Medal – for research or innovative work of outstanding merit in the humanities
• Mason Durie Medal – for advances in the frontiers of social science
• Pou Aronui Award – for distinguished service to the humanities-aronui

Technology and Applied Sciences

• MacDiarmid Medal – for outstanding scientific research that demonstrates the potential for application to human benefit
• Pickering Medal – to recognise 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

Our finest honour

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