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UNE’s Award winners

ALTC Fellowships

2010 ALTC Citation recipients

  • Dr Robyn Muldoon – For leadership in the development of the New England Award, an innovative program which fosters students’ personal and professional development at university through extra-curricular activity
  • Associate Professor Russell McDougall - For sustained commitment to and demonstrated excellence in creating innovative, empowering and challenging online learning communities to enhance students’ distance learning in Literature Studies

2009 ALTC Citation recipients

  • Associate Professor John Malouff – For sustained accomplishments in using a wide variety of effective teaching strategies and interpersonal skills to motivate psychology students to learn.
  • Dr Ingrid Harrington - For facilitating student learning through motivational approaches that inspire and foster student enthusiasm and curiosity, resulting in independent, critically reflective learners.

2008 ALTC Citation recipients

  • The Student Assist Team – For implementing innovative and responsive programs that provide holistic support for all students to stay academically focused while maintaining a healthy wellbeing.
  • Mrs Edwina Ridgway – For many years of caring and dedicated work within the residential college system implementing and maintaining programs and facilities supporting students’ learning and life skills.
  • Ms Isabel Tasker – For sustained dedication to understanding and meeting the needs of students undertaking the challenges of learning Mandarin, on and off-campus, and inspiring them to succeed.
  • Dr Chris Reading - For commitment to the enhancement of the final-year education student learning experience through sustained development of authentic assessment processes.
  • Dr Josie Fisher – For sustained commitment to motivating off-campus students to form a community of learners which encourages critical engagement with issues in business and professional ethics.
  • The German Team (Professor Kerry Dunne & others) – For sustained innovation in using technologies to foster distance education students’ becoming autonomous language learners.
  • Associate Professor Tom Maxwell – For a decade of national and international leadership in innovative curriculum development and research in more professional, workplace-oriented teacher education.

2007 Carrick Citation recipients

  • Chemistry Team (Dr Peter Lye, Associate Professor Trevor Brown, Dr Chris Fellows, Associate Professor Kiyo Fujimori & Professor Stephen Glover) - Overcoming the tyranny of distance in tertiary chemical education through innovative distance learning curricula and resources
  • Professor Lynda Garland & Associate Professor Matthew Dillon - For sustained excellence in scholarly activities and curriculum development which has enhanced the teaching and learning of first-year Ancient History both at UNE and internationally.
  • Theatre Studies (Professor Adrian Kiernander, Ms Sue Fell, Dr Andrew McCue & Dr Anne Pender) - For sustained commitment and innovation over 15 years in devising and providing real-world learning experiences for off-campus students in the practical study of theatre.
  • Professor Jennifer McDonell - For sustained, innovative English curricula and resources covering Renaissance to Contemporary literatures that inspire students to see texts, language and the world from multiple perspectives.
  • The Access Centres Team (Mrs Frances Munro, Ms Margaret Keane, Mrs Yves Byers & Mr Cameron Colless) - Going the extra mile: for sustained teamwork that brings geographically remote and disadvantaged students into our UNE learning community through personalised attention in access centres.
  • Oorala (Mr Guido Posthausen, Ms Diane Mumbler & Dr Michael Brogan) - For a high impact Indigenous tertiary preparation program that assists students to engage confidently in tertiary studies by integrating their individual academic and socio-cultural needs.
  • Associate Professor Barbara Rugendyke - For inspiring students to envisage and pursue greater global equity, through stimulating cross-cultural understanding, global awareness and critical thinking about social justice issues.
  • Associate Professor John Scott - For passionate and accessible teaching which stimulates, encourages and sustains students through the construction of interactive and pluralistic learning environments.

2006 Carrick Citation recipients

  • Academic Skills Office (Dr Frances Quinn, Dr Robyn Muldoon and others) - For exemplary, innovative support of non-traditional students, which has effectively and respectfully enhanced their engagement with higher education and its academic literacies
  • Dr Donna Lee Brien - For consistently providing outstanding student learning outcomes since 1998 by harnessing the input of research-teaching nexus and service activities in creative and professional writing
  • Associate Professor Jeremy Bruhl and others - For inspiring students' learning and appreciation of systematics through a unique integrated research-driven program devised and delivered by researchers from three premier Australian research institutions
  • Associate Professor Jennifer Clark - For sustained commitment to achieving the highest quality student learning in modern history by consciously teaching critical thinking skills in innovative and creative ways
  • First Year Advisor Team (Ms Julie Godwin, Dr Robyn Muldoon and others) - For sustained excellence in creating an inclusive first year learning community with outstanding developmentally appropriate learning opportunities for individuals within specific disciplines
  • Ms Julie Leong - For the creation of internationally recognised online tutorials on information literacy which enhance students' study, research and life-long learning
  • Dr Linley Lloyd - For sustained and highly effective distance education, using constructivist learning activities in innovative assessment tasks with scaffolded feedback to develop independent, critically reflective learners
  • Dr Nicholas Reid - For leadership in online education in linguistics and applied linguistics generally, and for developing innovative and inspirational online resources for teaching about Australia's indigenous languages
  • Mr Ian Telford - For inspiring students to excellence in botany, and independent and life-long learning in science through passionate and dedicated teaching in a voluntary capacity
  • Mr Ian Truswell - For sustained excellence in support of effective student learning in distance education through the application of learning-centred technical expertise in videoconferencing

Previous Awards

Australian Awards for University Teaching 2002

Institutional Awards – Innovative and practical approach to the provision of support services that assist the learning of students

  • tUNEup: Skills for successful university learning (joint winner)


Australian Awards for University Teaching 2001

Institutional Awards – Innovative and practical approach to the provision of educational services to the local and/or regional community

  • Tertiary Preparation for Indigenous Inmates


Australian Awards for University Teaching 1997

Individual Awards – Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

  • Dr Acram Taji