Call for Nominations for the 2025 RST Annual Doctoral (PhD) Awards
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
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.
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/.
Richard Coleman (Chair),
on behalf of the RST Honours and Awards Committee
The Royal Society of Tasmania acknowledges, with deep respect, the traditional owners of this land, and the ongoing custodianship of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The Society pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples have survived severe and unjust impacts resulting from invasion and dispossession of their Country. As an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, the Royal Society of Tasmania recognises Aboriginal cultural knowledge and practices and seeks to respect and honour these traditions and the deep understanding they represent.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal Apology to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
