Theme Awards
Food and Mood
Dr Adrienne O’Neil
Young Tall Poppy Science Award (Victoria). Australian Policy & Science Institute
Gina Howland, PhD candidate
2021 Deakin Three Minute Thesis Competition. Runner-up
Gina Howland, PhD candidate
Winner of School of Medicine 3MT Heat
Gina Howland, PhD candidate
Winner of Faculty of Health 3MT Heat
Dr Hajara Aslam
Executive Dean’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for 2021-202
Cancer, Infection and Immunity
Professor Eugene Athan
OAM for services to Infectious Disease Medicine
Professor Eugene Athan
Prime Minister’s COVID response Honour Roll for services to Australia
Madeline Dans, PhD candidate
Winner of the ‘best oral presentation award’ at the Australian Society for Parasitology
Hope Chernih, Research Assistant
IMPACT SRC Honours Award
Hope Chernih, Research Assistant
School of Medicine Honours Award
Ally Wilson, PhD candidate
IMPACT SRC Honours Runner Up Award
Mental Health and Neuroscience
Anna Wrobel, PhD candidate
Best poster presentation (First Place Poster Presentation) for “The impact of childhood trauma on the treatment of bipolar disorder: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis” at the 2021 Faculty of Health HDR Conference
Anna Wrobel, PhD candidate
Geoff Betts and Betty Betts Early Mental Health Researcher Award 2021 (by the Rotary Club of Geelong).
Dr Malcolm Forbes
Trisno Family Research Grant in Old Age Psychiatry – Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Professor Michael Berk
The Senior Research Award – Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Dr Amanda Douglass
Joseph Haley Writing Award for winning paper “Changes in psysiological parameters induced by optical misalignment in night vision binocular devices”.
Prof Jeff Craig
James Shields Award for Lifetime Contributions to Twin Research from the International Society for Twin Studies
Dr Lisa Olive
Sports Medicine Australia, Best Paper (Physical Activity and Health Promotion)
Population Health
Bonnie Beasant, PhD candidate
The HDR conference oral presentation runner-up award
Kara Anderson, PhD candidate
Barwon Health and Deakin Research Best Research Paper of the Year. IMPACT & BH Dept of Diabetes & Endocrinology. In collaboration with researchers from other institutions. “Normative data for peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) bone parameters in Australian men.”
Behnaz Azimi Manavi, PhD candidate
Barwon Health and Deakin Research Best Research Poster Awards (Population Health) for “Is there any association between antipsychotic medications use and bone quality?”
Dr Sophia Sui
Dean’s Fellowship award
Ageliki (Angela) Karandaglidis, Honours Student
Deakin Faculty of Health Honours Publication Award for 2021
Molecular Medicine
Aarthy Ramasamy, PhD candidate
Network Towards Unity for Health TUFH Policy Fellow-2021 and an international fellowship award
Dr Richard Williams
Barwon Health and Deakin Research Best Research Poster Awards (Basic Science) for “Tissue Programmed Hydrogels Functionalized with GDNF Improve Human Neural Grafts in Parkinson’s Disease”
Prof James Armitage
WJC Banks Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Learning. “The Optometry Virtual Mobility Program: Inclusive, accessible and authentic international placements during a pandemic and the advancement of the University’s Strategic Plan, Deakin 2030: Ideas to Impact.”
Clinical Trials and Interventions
Alessandra Sarmiento, Honours Student
Deakin Faculty of Health Honours Publication Award for 2021
Alessandra Sarmiento, Honours Student
Deakin Scholar for Excellence award this year for Honours
Novel Treatment Discovery
Dr Bruna Panizzutti Parry
Best ECR poster presentation at the 2021 BPA Conference (Brisbane/Virtual) for “Transcriptional Modulation of the Hippo Signalling Pathway by drugs used to treat Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia”.
Dr Maryam Nakhjavani
Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.
ISI Highly Cited Researchers 2021
Recognizing the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™. Of the world’s scientists and social scientists, Clarivate™ Highly Cited Researchers truly are one in 1,000. Currently, six of the nine Highly Cited Researchers at Deakin are in IMPACT:
Professor Michael Berk
Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher for 2021 – Psychiatry and Psychology
Professor Alison Yung
Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher for 2021 – Psychiatry and Psychology
Dr Andre Carvalho
Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher for 2021 – Psychiatry and Psychology
Professor Felice Jacka
Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher for 2021 – Cross-Field
A/Prof. Olivia Dean
Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher for 2021 – Cross-Field.
IMPACT Awards in 2021
The IMPACT Awards are a chance for our team to celebrate the excellence amongst our students and researchers.
Lara Voglsanger, PhD candidate
The IMPACT Outstanding Publication Award
Luba Sominsky, PhD candidate
IMPACT Outstanding Publication Award for “Maternal diet before and during pregnancy modulates microglial activation and neurogenesis in the postpartum rat brain.”
Nagendra Awasthi, PhD candidate
Outstanding Publication Award for “STAT proteins: a kaleidoscope of canonical and non-canonical functions in immunity and cancer” in the Journal of Hematology & Oncology”
Amelia McGuinness, PhD candidate
Outstanding Publication Award for “A systematic review of gut microbiota composition in observational studies of major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia”
Dr Samantha Dawson
Outstanding PhD Completion for their PhD entitled Targeting the Perinatal Diet to Alter Early Life Gut Microbiota.
Dr Samantha Dawson
The IMPACT Outstanding Publication Award for “Maternal prenatal gut microbiota composition predicts child behaviour”.
Professor Eugene Athan
Excellence in Clinician led research Award.
Dr Aaqil Rifai
Rising star award.
Dr Stephen Gill
The IMPACT Outstanding Publication Award for “Gender differences in female and male Australian Football injuries — A prospective observational study of emergency department presentations”