UNE Business School
The UNE Business School offers a number of prizes which it awards each year, funded by our generous donors. These prizes are a method of recognising outstanding performance by students. The Terms and Conditions vary for each Prize and can be found below.
| Prize | Value | Terms | Current Recipient |
|---|---|---|---|
Accounting and Financial Entrepreneurship Prize - Corporate Finance | $750 | Awarded to the student with the highest marks in AFM231 Corporate Finance | Zachary Nolan James Geach |
Accounting and Financial Entrepreneurship Prize - Fundamentals of Personal Finance | $750 | Awarded to the student with the highest marks in AFM104 Fundamentals of Personal Finance | Ian Douglas Fraser |
Accounting and Financial Entrepreneurship Prize - Small Business Finance | $750 | Awarded to the student with the highest marks in AFM322 Small Business Finance | George Timothy Burns |
Australian Human Resources Institute Prize in Human Resource Management | Membership to HR Institute | Awarded annually to the student who has achieved the best overall GPA in Bachelor of Business (HRM) | Cameron Wayne Pegg |
Australian Human Resources Institute Prize in Human Resource Management | Membership to HR Institute | Awarded annually to the student who has achieved the best overall GPA in Master of Business Administration (HRM) | Not Awarded in 2025 |
Australian Human Resources Institute Prize in Human Resource Management | Membership to HR Institute | Awarded annually to the student who has achieved the best overall GPA in Masters of Strategic Organisational Development and HR Management | Not Awarded in 2025 |
Barbara Meredith Memorial Prize in Small Business and Entrepreneurship | $500 | Awarded to the student who gains the best results in AFM324/524 Small Business Management | Melisa Pontrelli Albisetti |
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Prize | $250 | Awarded to the first year undergraduate student who has the most distinguished results in the units AFM101 and AFM112 and two other 100 level units | Damian John Simon Abou-Antoun |
David Murray Memorial Award | $1,000 | The recipient will be the highest performing Economics Honours student | Not Awarded in 2025 |
D H Drummond Thesis Prize in Economic Studies | $750 | Awarded for PhD Thesis in Economics, if of sufficient merit, submitted during the proceeding year in the UNE Business School | Not Awarded in 2025 |
D H Drummond Thesis Prize in Economic Studies | $750 | Awarded for Master of Economics Thesis, if of sufficient merit, submitted during the proceeding year in the UNE Business School | Not Awarded in 2025 |
E MacArthur Prize in Agricultural Policy | $1,000 | Awarded to the most outstanding Bachelor of Agricultural and Resource Economics student in BUS481C or the Bachelor of Agribusiness with Honours student in BUS481C | Not Awarded in 2025 |
F Reece & W Tait Prize in Public Finance | $1,500 | Awarded to the external student, graduate or undergraduate, who obtains the most distinguished pass in the unit ECON203/303/405 | Aayushman Latta |
Fredy Roberto Valenzuela Foundation Prize | $500 | Awarded to the student who achieves the highest aggregate mark in MM311, MM313, MM314 and MM316. If two or more students achieve identical highest marks, the prize will be divided between them | Patrick Oliver Cleary |
J Crawford Memorial Prize | $1,000 | Awarded to the external undergraduate or graduate, if of sufficient merit, who obtains the best results in QM161 | Jessica Jane Lawson |
J Crawford Memorial Prize | $1,000 | Awarded to the external undergraduate or graduate, if of sufficient merit, who obtains the best results in QM162 | Zachary Nolan James Geach |
J Crawford Memorial Prize | $1,000 | Awarded to the external undergraduate or graduate, if of sufficient merit, who obtains the best results in QM262 | Ella Anne Jones |
J N Lewis Foundation Prize | $1,000 | Awarded to the student enrolled for the Bachelor of Agricultural and Resource Economics or Bachelor of Agribusiness with Honours who achieves the best result in BUS481C. | Non-Award |
Jack Sinden Memorial Prize | $1,000 | Awarded to an external student, graduate or undergraduate, who obtains the highest grade in the unit ECON121 | Genevieve Serena Spencer |
John D Black Prize for Agricultural Economics | $250 | Awarded to the Bachelor of Agriculture and Economics student who obtains the best results in ECON201 and 202. | Kelsey Gail Wall |
John Guise Memorial Prize | $250 | Awarded to the most outstanding student in ECON271/371 Introductory Econometrics | Matthew Pullin |
M Ambrose Memorial Prize in Economics | $1,000 | Awarded to the external undergraduate who obtains the best result in the unit ECON102 | Grace Elizabeth Shaw |
N P Cameron Memorial Award (AFM) | $300 | Awarded to the candidate who obtains the best results in AFM211 Financial Accounting I | Zachary Nolan James Geach |
Rama Krishna Sastry Pappu Memorial Prize | $250 | Awarded to the student who obtains the best result in MM110 Introduction to Marketing | David Alexander Pate |
Ray Day Memorial Prize | $1,000 | To be awarded to the most outstanding international student in AFM324/524 Small Business Management | Xinyi Yu |
Rennie E Clayton Memorial Prize | $1,000 | Awarded to the undergraduate, if of sufficient merit, who obtains the best result in ECON101 and ECON102 taken in the same year | William Cailes |
R S Neale Memorial Fund | $500 | Awarded to the student who has achieved the best result in a first year unit in the Economic History discipline, ECON143 | Andrew Stewart Medling |
UniSuper Fundamentals of Personal Finance Prize | $1,000 | Awarded to an undergraduate student for the best academic result for AFM104 Fundamentals of Personal Finance | Ian Douglas Fraser |
UniSuper Security Analysis and Portfolio Management Prize | $1,000 | Awarded to a postgraduate student for the best academic result for AFM532 Security Analysis and Portfolio Management | Kommidi Sai Ram Reddy |
