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Photos from 2019 Research Honours Aotearoa

View photographs of award winners, presenters and guests at the 2019 Research Honours Aotearoa, held at the Dunedin Town Hall on 17 Whiringa-ā-nuku October.

2019 Research Honours Aotearoa winners

Hosted by Royal Society Te Apārangi, the achievements and ...
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    Thu 17 Oct 2019

President's speech at 2019 Research Honours Aotearoa

Professor Wendy Larner FRSNZ, President of Ro...
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    Mon 4 Nov 2019

2019 Rutherford Medal

Distinguished Professor Jane Harding ONZM FRSNZ has been awarded the Rutherf...
  • Distinguished Professor Jane Harding ONZM FRSNZ has been awarded the Rutherford Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for her pre-eminent work determining the causes of n...

2019 Scott Medal

Professor Don Cleland has been awarded the Scott Medal by Royal Society Te Apāra...
  • Professor Don Cleland has been awarded the Scott Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for making advances in refrigeration engineering.

2019 Pickering Medal

This year’s Pickering Medal has been awarded to Professor Cather Simpson FR...
  • This year’s Pickering Medal has been awarded to Professor Cather Simpson FRSNZ for her pioneering research and commercialisation of innovative photonic technologies, ...

2019 MacDiarmid Medal

Professor Keith Gordon FRSNZ has been awarded the MacDiarmid Medal by Royal ...
  • Professor Keith Gordon FRSNZ has been awarded the MacDiarmid Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for his innovative use of light to understand the molecular structure o...

2019 Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Award

The inaugural Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Award, which reco...
  • The inaugural Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Award, which recognises excellent, innovative co-created research conducted by Māori that has made a distinctive contribution...

2019 Pou Aronui Award

Professor Emeritus Roger Horrocks MNZM has been awarded the Pou Aronui Award...
  • Professor Emeritus Roger Horrocks MNZM has been awarded the Pou Aronui Award by Royal Society Te Apārangi for being a champion of New Zealand culture, particularly New...

2019 Humanities Aronui Medal

Former New Zealand Poet Laureate and notable Pacific scholar Associat...
  • Former New Zealand Poet Laureate and notable Pacific scholar Associate Professor Selina Tusitala Marsh ONZM has been awarded the Humanities Aronui Medal by Royal Societ...

2019 Te Rangi Hiroa Medal

Professor Edwina Pio has been awarded the Te Rangi Hiroa Medal by Royal ...
  • Professor Edwina Pio has been awarded the Te Rangi Hiroa Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for her pioneering research in diversity; specifically, how the intersectio...

2019 Hutton Medal

Distinguished Professor Philip Hulme FRSNZ has been awarded the Hutton Medal by ...
  • Distinguished Professor Philip Hulme FRSNZ has been awarded the Hutton Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for his outstanding contributions to knowledge about plant in...

2019 Hector Medal

Professor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic FRSNZ has been awarded the Hector Medal by Roya...
  • Professor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic FRSNZ has been awarded the Hector Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for her outstanding contribution to the field of advanced polymer...

2019 Thomson Medal

Dr Tim Haskell NZAM has been awarded the Thomson Medal by Royal Society Te Apā...
  • Dr Tim Haskell NZAM has been awarded the Thomson Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for his outstanding contributions to the organisation, support and application of s...

2019 Callaghan Medal

Dr Ocean Mercier from Victoria University of Wellington has been awarded the ...
  • Dr Ocean Mercier from Victoria University of Wellington has been awarded the Callaghan Medal from Royal Society Te Apārangi for her pioneering work to engage audiences...

2019 Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award

Dr Anne-Marie Jackson has received the Royal Society Te Ap...
  • Dr Anne-Marie Jackson has received the Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award for forging new knowledge at the interface of mātauranga Māori an...

2019 Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences

Dr Bronwyn Wood, Victoria Universi...
  • Dr Bronwyn Wood, Victoria University of Wellington, has received the 2019 Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences for her ...

2019 Hatherton Award

Christian Offen, Massey University, has been awarded the Hatherton Award for ...
  • Christian Offen, Massey University, has been awarded the Hatherton Award for his paper that develops a new framework for a class of non-linear differential equations th...

2019 Hamilton Award

Dr Lisa Te Morenga (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, Te Uri o Hau, Te Rarawa...
  • Dr Lisa Te Morenga (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, Te Uri o Hau, Te Rarawa) has been awarded the Hamilton Award, the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Researc...

2019 Cooper Award

Dr Lee Streeter, University of Waikato, has received the Cooper Award—the Roya...
  • Dr Lee Streeter, University of Waikato, has received the Cooper Award—the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Technology, Applied Sc...

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