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2023 Rutherford Medal

Distinguished Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou) CNZM FRSNZ has been awarded the Rutherford Medal for her preeminent role in advancing education and research for Te Ao Māori, her groundbreaking scholarship in decolonisation of research methodologies, and her pioneering contribution to transforming research for Indigenous Peoples globally.

Linda Tuhiwai Smith receives Rutherford Medal alongside other Research Honours Aotearoa winners
  • PUBLISHED:
    Thu 23 Nov 2023

2023 Thomson Medal

Professor Nicola Gaston has been awarded the Thomson Medal by Royal Society Te ...
  • Professor Nicola Gaston has been awarded the Thomson Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for transformative leadership for the research, science and innovation sector a...

2023 Hector Medal

Professor Niels Kjærgaard has been awarded the Hector Medal by Royal Society Te...
  • Professor Niels Kjærgaard has been awarded the Hector Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of scientific understandi...

2023 Humanities Aronui Medal

Dr Vincent O'Malley has been awarded the Humanities Aronui Medal for ...
  • Dr Vincent O'Malley has been awarded the Humanities Aronui Medal for his contribution to the research, knowledge, and public understanding of New Zealand history, parti...

2023 Pickering Medal

An AgResearch team has been awarded the Pickering Medal for breeding sheep wh...
  • An AgResearch team has been awarded the Pickering Medal for breeding sheep which emit less methane, and for determining the potential reduction of methane emissions if ...

2023 Callaghan Medal: A champion of fresh water and sustainability

Dr Mike Joy has been awarded th...
  • Dr Mike Joy has been awarded the Callaghan Medal for his research on the decline of freshwater ecosystems, the quality of drinking water, and sustainable management of ...

2023 Hutton Medal

Professor Nicholas Golledge has been awarded the Hutton Medal for his cutting-ed...
  • Professor Nicholas Golledge has been awarded the Hutton Medal for his cutting-edge contributions to modelling of the Antarctic ice sheet, and research on climate change...

2023 Scott Medal

Dr Owen Catchpole FRSNZ, of Callaghan Innovation, has been awarded the Scott Meda...
  • Dr Owen Catchpole FRSNZ, of Callaghan Innovation, has been awarded the Scott Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for being a world leader in the development of processe...

2023 Mason Durie Medal

Professor Stephen May FRSNZ has been awarded the Mason Durie Medal for his ...
  • Professor Stephen May FRSNZ has been awarded the Mason Durie Medal for his work on language rights and revitalisation, spanning the disciplines of applied linguistics, ...

2023 Te Rangi Hiroa Medal

Associate Professor Clive Aspin (Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti T...
  • Associate Professor Clive Aspin (Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti Tamaterā) has been awarded the Te Rangi Hiroa Medal for his research on sexuality, HIV, and suic...

2023 Te Rangaunua Hiranga

Professor Regan Potangaroa (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa) has been awar...
  • Professor Regan Potangaroa (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa) has been awarded the Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Award after devoting his career as an engineer and architect...

2023 MacDiarmid Medal

Professor Geoffrey Waterhouse has been awarded the MacDiarmid Medal by the R...
  • Professor Geoffrey Waterhouse has been awarded the MacDiarmid Medal by the Royal Society Te Apārangi for discovering low-cost nanocatalysts critical to global decarbon...

2023 Hamilton Award
  • Dr Mark Calcott has been awarded the Hamilton Award—the Royal Society Te Apārangi’s Early Career Research Excellence Award for Science— for a breakthrough in sus...

2023 Cooper Award

Royal Society Te Apārangi has selected Dr Vineet Shah, of Callaghan Innovation,...
  • Royal Society Te Apārangi has selected Dr Vineet Shah, of Callaghan Innovation, for the Cooper Award—the Early Career Research Excellence Award for Technology, Appli...

2023 ECR Kōpūnui

Dr Hinekura Smith (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Ati Awa) has been awarded the Te Kō...
  • Dr Hinekura Smith (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Ati Awa) has been awarded the Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award for her PhD research titled ‘Whatuora: Whatu kākahu and l...

2023 ECR Social Sciences Award: Addressing big social issues

Dr Maria Armoudian has been awarded t...
  • Dr Maria Armoudian has been awarded the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences for her research, leadership, and mentorin...

Photographs from 2023 Research Honours Aotearoa Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
  • Photographs from 2023 Research Honours Aotearoa Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Photographs from 2023 Research Honours Aotearoa Ōtautahi Christchurch
  • Photographs from 2023 Research Honours Aotearoa Ōtautahi Christchurch

Photographs from 2023 Research Honours Aotearoa Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington

  • Photographs from 2023 Research Honours Aotearoa Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington

First event to celebrate 2023 Research Honours Aotearoa winners

Five medals and awards were presen...
  • PUBLISHED:
    Wed 8 Nov 2023

Ōtautahi Christchurch event to celebrate 2023 Research Honours Aotearoa winners

Four medals and a...
  • PUBLISHED:
    Wed 15 Nov 2023

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