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Postgrad students honour uni staff

Friday, 13 October 2006

The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide's postgraduate students have paid tribute to the efforts of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ staff, with prizes being awarded for excellence to four staff members and two disciplines/schools.

The holds an annual Staff Awards ceremony - now in its 15th year - to recognise the quality of supervision and lecturing of postgraduate students, as well as the efforts of general staff and academic disciplines.

This year's awards have gone to:

• Supervisor of the Year: ()
• Lecturer of the Year: ()
• General Staff of the Year - equal winners: Ms Mary Evans () and ()
• Discipline of the Year - equal winners: (headed by ) and (headed by )

"The Postgraduate Students' Association is proud to have been recognising outstanding service to postgraduate research and coursework for the past 15 years with these awards," says the President of the Association, Ms Felicity Rai.

"Students themselves nominate outstanding ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide staff - individuals and disciplines that have assisted them greatly with their research, studies or simply in navigating through student life at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥.

"With more than 6000 postgraduate and Honours students currently at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide, that is a phenomenal effort by staff. We thank them for the quality of their work and for contributing to the quality of postgraduate experience at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥."

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