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2021 Research Honours Aotearoa winners

Contributions of innovators, kairangahau Māori, researchers and scholars throughout Aotearoa New Zealand are having their achievements and national and international impact recognised.

2021 Research Honours Aotearoa

View the digital booklet of the 2021 Research Honours Aotearoa winners.
  • View the digital booklet of the 2021 Research Honours Aotearoa winners.

2021 Rutherford Medal: Impact of housing on health

Distinguished Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman...
  • Distinguished Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman CNZM QSO FRSNZ and the He Kāinga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme including Professor Julian Crane, Associa...

2021 Thomson Medal: Leadership for New Zealand Antarctic research

Professor Gary Wilson has been a...
  • Professor Gary Wilson has been awarded the Thomson Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for his leadership in developing New Zealand's international profile in Antarctic...

2021 Hector Medal: Revolutionising chemical analysis at the nanoscale

Professor Eric Le Ru has bee...
  • Professor Eric Le Ru has been awarded the Hector Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for his world-leading research in analytical chemistry at the nanoscale using surfa...

2021 Hutton Medal: How contaminants move from land into water

Professor Richard McDowell FRSNZ, Ag...
  • Professor Richard McDowell FRSNZ, AgResearch and Lincoln University, has been been awarded the Hutton Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for his outstanding contributi...

2021 Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Award: What decolonisation might mean for Aotearoa’s towns and cities
  • The Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Award, which recognises excellent, innovative co-created research conducted by Māori that has made a distinctive contribution to commun...

2021 Te Rangi Hiroa Medal: Decolonising the academy and creating space for Māori

Professor Linda ...
  • Professor Linda Nikora FRSNZ (Tūhoe, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti) has been awarded the 2021 Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Rangi Hiroa Medal for her work transforming Psycholog...

2021 Mason Durie Medal: Transforming the treatment of violent individuals

Professor Tony Ward FRSN...
  • Professor Tony Ward FRSNZ has been presented the Royal Society Te Apārangi Mason Durie Medal for advances in the frontiers of social science, for original research on ...

2021 Humanities Aronui Medal: Socio-political filmmaker tackling difficult issues

Acclaimed filmma...
  • Acclaimed filmmaker Professor Annie Goldson ONZM FRSNZ has been presented the Humanities Aronui Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi, recognising her 26 films, many of t...

2021 Pou Aronui Award: From poetry to periodicals, Kipling to cricket – a tireless supporter of New Zealand literature

  • Professor Harry Ricketts, acknowledged as one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most prolific literary figures – writer, teacher, editor and promotor of local intellectual ...

2021 MacDiarmid Medal: Relearning the ability to swallow

Professor Maggie-Lee Huckabee, University...
  • Professor Maggie-Lee Huckabee, University of Canterbury, has been presented the MacDiarmid Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for sustained excellence in translational...

2021 Pickering Medal: Technology to treat dairy effluent

Professor Keith Cameron ONZM FRSNZ and Pr...
  • Professor Keith Cameron ONZM FRSNZ and Professor Hong Di ONZM FRSNZ, both from Lincoln University, have been presented the Pickering Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi...

2021 Scott Medal: Cost-effective superconductors

Dr Zhenan Jiang, a Principal Scientist at the Rob...
  • Dr Zhenan Jiang, a Principal Scientist at the Robinson Research Institute, has been presented the Scott Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for global leadership in mea...

2021 Cooper Award: Airborne microplastics contribute to climate change

Dr Laura Revell has been pr...
  • Dr Laura Revell has been presented the Cooper Award —the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Technology, Applied Science and Enginee...

2021 Hamilton Award: Not even the South Pole is immune to global warming

Dr Kyle Clem, Te Herenga ...
  • Dr Kyle Clem, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, has been awarded the 2021 Hamilton Award, Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence A...

2021 Hatherton Award: Assessing which volcanoes will erupt after earthquakes

Gilles Seropian, who ...
  • Gilles Seropian, who has a PhD in volcanology from the University of Canterbury, has received the Hatherton Award for his paper that provides a framework to understand ...

2021 Early Career Researcher Award for Humanities: Jurisdiction and Distribution – Understanding the importance of Indigenous water rights
  • Associate Professor Elizabeth Jane Macpherson has been presented the 2021 Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities, for her work...

2021 Early Career Excellence Award for Social Sciences: The power of listening in the face of structural injustice
  • Dr Emily Beausoleil has been presented the 2021 Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Science for her research that seeks to enha...

2021 Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award: A kaupapa Māori intervention shifting the boundaries of speech-language therapy
  • Dr Karen Brewer (Whakatōhea, Ngaiterangi) has received the Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award for her work on Ngā Whāriki Kōrero, a kaupa...

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