Applications for the current (Round 1/2011) close on 31 March 2011. Students eligible to apply for this current round must submit their thesis between 1 March and 31 May.
The Postgraduate Publications Awards scheme is designed to encourage research degree candidates to disseminate their research findings to a wider public through publication in professional journals or books.The scheme provides a modest income to students who wish to write up some of their research for publication while they await the results of their examination.
Eligibility: Open to postgraduate research students who have submitted or are about to submit their thesis. Eligible candidates are required to apply in the selection round that coincides with the date of their thesis submission.
Details: http://www.mrgs.monash.edu.au/scholarships/other/index.html
There are ten (10) awards awarded per year (normally one from each faculty) to the doctoral student judged to have presented the best thesis in that year provided that the nominee meets an overall level of excellence required for the award of the medal.
The nominee will have fulfilled the requirements for the degree and had his/her result ratified at one of the Research Graduate School Committee meetings in the previous year.
2010 – Dr Arun P. Mani
Clayton School of IT
Thesis title 'Correlation inequalities for Tutte polynomials'
Supervisor Associate Professor Graham Farr
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2009 – Dr Rebecca Robinson
Clayton School of IT
Thesis title 'Characterizations and Algorithms for Topological Containment of Wheel Graphs'
Supervisor Associate Professor Graham Farr
2008 – Dr Ferdous Sohel
Gippsland School of IT
Thesis title 'Vertex-based shape coding framework'
Supervisor Dr Gour Karmakar
2007 – Dr Benny Nasution
Caulfield School of Information Technology
Thesis title 'Trusted transaction secure network: agent-based distributed security control system for traffic on the internet'
Supervisor Dr Asad Khan.
2006 – Dr Gillian Oliver
Caulfield School of Information Technology
Thesis title 'Information in organisations: a comparative study of information cultures'
Supervisor Professor Sue McKemmish.
2005 – Dr. Xiaozhe Wang
Clayton School of Information Technology
Thesis title 'Characteristic-based forecasting for time series data'
Supervisor Professor Kate Smith-Miles.
2004 – Dr. Iman Poernomo
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Thesis title 'Variations on a Theme of Curry and Howard: The Curry-Howard Isomorphism and the Proofs-as-programs Paradigm Adapted to Imperative and Structured Program Synthesis'
Supervisor Professor John Crossley.
2003 – Dr Livia Iacovino
School of Information Management and Systems
Thesis title 'Ethical-legal Frameworks for Recordkeeping: Regulatory models, Participants and their Rights and Obligations'
Supervisor Dr Graeme Johanson.
2002 – Dr Linda Dawson
School of Information Management and Systems
Thesis title 'An investigation of the use of object-oriented models in requirements engineering practice'
Supervisor Dr Peta Darke.
2001 – Dr Tao Chen
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Thesis title 'Adaptive Order Statistics Based Filters And Transform Domain Filters for Image Restoration'
Supervisor Associate Professor Hong Ren Wu.
2000 – Dr David Wood
School of Computer Science and Software Engineeering
Thesis title 'Three-Dimensional Orthogonal Graph Drawing'
Supervisor Dr Graham Farr
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2009 – Dr Natalie Lee-San Pang
Caulfield School of IT
Thesis title'The knowledge commons in Victoria and Singapore: An exploration of community roles in the shaping of cultural institutions'
Supervisor Dr Steve Wright
2008 – Dr Michael Wybrow
Clayton School of IT
Thesis title'Using semi-automatic layout to improve the usability of diagramming software'
Supervisor Prof Kim Marriott
2007 – Dr Joanne Evans
Caulfield School of Information Technology
Thesis title "Building capacities for sustainable recordkeeping metadata interoperability".
Supervisor Professor Sue McKemmish.
The Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, is awarded to a nominee who is not ranked first for their faculty, but that the Schoalrships and Award committee feels in any other year could have been a successful Mollie Holman Medal recipient.
The Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Masters Thesis Excellence is awarded to Masters by Research students who will have fulfilled the requirements for the degree and had their result ratified by the relevant faculty committee, or in the case of MPhil candidates by the Research Graduate School Committee. Nominations must be lodged through the faculty awarding the degree.
There normally shall be three (3) awards per year across all faculties and no more than five (5) awards per year. Nominations are requested in January from the schools.
Please note this award was introduced in 2007 for Masters by Research students.
This award was introduced in 2007 and is for the best research completed by a PhD student in Faculty of Information Technology for the nominated year. The research must, in the opinion of the FIT Scholarships and Award Sub-Committee, address an important issue in the information technology and communication field (ICT) and demonstrate proven excellence in their program as presented by the quality of publications, awards and any other indication of excellence during their candidature, including a career path after the PhD award.
To be eligible for the competition the thesis must have been completed (i.e., passed requirements for graduation) in the period between January 1 and December 31 of the nominated year.
2009 – Dr Natalie Lee-San Pang
Caulfield School of IT
Thesis title 'The knowledge commons in Victoria and Singapore: An exploration of community roles in the shaping of cultural institutions'
Supervisor Dr Steve Wright
2008 – Dr Ferdous Sohel
Gippsland School of IT
Thesis title 'Vertex-based shape coding framework'
Supervisor Dr Gour Karmakar
2007 – Dr Iftekhar Ahmad
Gippsland School of IT
Thesis title 'New strategiers for service continuity of Qos applications in communication networks''
Supervisor Dr Joarder Kamruzzaman