Nominations for the annual RST Doctoral (PhD) Awards open on 1 October 2025. Two awards are offered for recent PhD graduates who have made significant advances in the course of their doctoral research. One Doctoral Award is reserved for nominations from non-Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (non-STEMM) disciplines and the other Award will be open to any discipline.
The value of each award is $1,000 (AUD). Awardees will be invited to present a lecture to the Society.
Conditions of the Doctoral Awards
The awards shall be made to nominees who are no more than three years, or three years equivalent-full-time, after their PhD graduation.
The awards are intended to recognise significant advances based on their PhD research, as shown by published or in press peer-reviewed papers in national/international journals or equivalent outputs in fields where publications are not the norm.
The research should have been largely carried out in Tasmania or under the aegis of a Tasmanian-based organization.
Nominations may be made by anyone, although no self-nominations will be accepted.
Please send nominations as a single Word or pdf file by email to the RST Secretary using our Contact Us form, before cob, 15 November 2025. Please select the topic of ‘Awards’ on the contact form.
Nomination guidelines are given at https://rst.org.au/awards/award-medal-guidelines/.
See Section 4 of the Schedule 1 Guidelines and Appendix D for this information.
Information on previous winners of the RST Annual Doctoral (PhD) Award is available at https://rst.org.au/awards/past-recipients/.
Website Link: Call for Nominations for the 2025 RST Annual Doctoral (PhD) Awards – rst.org.au