Recognising ECU excellence across the board

Each year Edith Cowan University (ECU) recognises and rewards ECU staff who have achieved outstanding outcomes, socially, professionally and academically.

The Vice-Chancellor's Staff Excellence Awards are a celebration of those who go above and beyond to demonstrate ECU's core values of Integrity, Respect, Rational Inquiry, Personal Excellence and Courage in all aspects of their work.

"I am in awe to see that 2023 has been another outstanding year of achievements for our university community," ECU Vice-Chancellor Professor Steve Chapman said.

"Each and every ECU staff member has dedicated their time, effort and passion to their work, research, and supporting our students to thrive in their studies, and for that I am tremendously proud."

While the event acknowledged the efforts of individuals, major milestones didn't go unnoticed.

Such as the city campus taking shape, the opening of ECU Sri Lanka campus and ECU being awarded its second Cygnet Award for efforts to deliver gender-equality opportunities and outcomes, in particular for women in STEM.

"We have also maintained our long-standing 5-star rating for undergraduate teaching quality for the 17^th year in a row in the Good Universities Guide," Professor Chapman said.

"And we were ranked in the top 100 universities in the world under 50 years of age in the latest Times Higher Education Young University Rankings, we have a lot to celebrate."

The 2023 Vice-Chancellor's Staff Excellence Award winners are:

Learning and Teaching:

Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

• International Entrepreneurial Partnership Program Team - School of Business and Law
• Bev Adkin - School of Education
• Dr Mehran Nejati Ajibisheh - School of Business and Law
• UniPrep Team - Access and Equity
• Georgina Akers - School of Arts and Humanities

Georgina Akers awarded Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Citation for Sustained Commitment to Enhancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• Stevie Lane - Access and Equity

Sessional Staff Award

• Dr Anna Hueppauff - School of Arts and Humanities

Research and Research Supervision:

Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher

• Associate Professor Masoumeh Zargar - School of Engineering

Outstanding Research Mentor

• Associate Professor Josh Lewis - School of Medical and Health Sciences

Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision

• Professor Kathryn McMahon - School of Science

Outstanding Research Communication

• Dr Liezhou Zhong - School of Medical and Health Sciences

Excellence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advancement.

• National Indigenous Business Summer School WA Organising Committee - School of Business and Law

Excellence in Health and Safety Practice

• Dr Dave Blake and Jaci Vaughan - School of Science

Inspirational Staff Awards:

Rational Inquiry

• Elly Welch - Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Regional Futures) Professor Cobie Rudd with Jenna Ardagh.

Personal Excellence

• Jenna Ardagh - Office of DVC (Regional Futures)
• Associate Professor Flavio Macau - School of Business and Law

Courage

• Dr Trudy Bates - School of Business and Law

Integrity

• Associate Professor Pam Henry - School of Arts and Humanities

Inspirational Team Award

• ECU City Campus Team - Office of Vice-President (Corporate Services)
• Admissions Team - Student Administration