Postgraduate Prize Awards
The 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham Postgraduate Prize Awards recognise accomplishments in research, publications, conferences as well as contribution to the Postgraduate Community. Students are nominated by their Schools for excellence across a number of areas.
2015 marked the first time this awards ceremony was introduced at the branch campuses and showcased concurently across all three campuses in UK, Malaysia and China.
2016 marked another first as the Postgraduate Teaching Award was introduced at 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham Malaysia. The Postgraduate Teaching Award recognises and celebrates examplars of innovative teaching and support of learning. Applicants may support teaching and learning through a wide range of activities, including: demostrating in laboratory classs, distance learning, playing a leading role in seminars or tutorials, supporting project work or lecturers as well as marking, assessing and giving feedback on student work. This award is given to applicant who can show innovative and reflective practice by improving effectiveness in teaching and support of learning, making appropriate changes in learning activities or techniques as well as evaluating and reflecting on the impact of intervention and possibilities for further development.
2021 marked yet another first as the Best Supervisor Award was introduced at 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham Malaysia. The Best Supervisor Award is designed to recognise academics who demonstrate sustained activity and interest in the supervision of doctoral students as a primary supervisor and have at least 80% timely completion rate of doctoral students registered at UNM.
Graduate School would like to congratulate all the winners on their commendable achievements and for archieving such prestigious awards!
2015 Winners!
Group Photo with Professor Christine Ennew and Supervisors
Postgraduate Prize Awards
Ibrahim Babangida Abubakar receiving his award from Professor Christine Ennew
Bi Juin Loong receiving her award from Professor Christine Ennew
James Lloyd Williams receiving his award from Professor Jerry Roberts at UK Campus
2016 Winners!
Group Photo with Professor Graham Kendall, Supervisors, Graduate School members of staff and CFF Doctoral Training Partnership Manager
Postgraduate Prize Awards
[From left] Professor Sandy Loh Hwei San, Pang Ee Leen (School of Biosciences) and Professor Graham Kendall.
“Ee Leen is a great assest for the 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ with a good track record in succeeding high impact publications, prestigious awards and engaging international collaboration as well as providing excellent academic services particularly in WinSET Athena Swan and Biosafety Committees. She is a very ambitious scientist who has strong focus in steering her research direction towards the potential vaccine development against Dengue disease which possesses a global significance.” – Professor Sandy Loh Hwei San
[From left] Nagulendran Kangayatkarasu (School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences) and Professor Graham Kendall.
“We are very fortunate to have Nagu one of our postgraduate students in UNMC. He has brought with him his broad experience, a wide interest in interdisciplinary approaches, and – very importantly – a unique personal ability to unify people and make any working group much more effective than without him. I have a deep respect for Nagu’s attitude towards work and study – he is always humble and ready to work hard (and smart) to get things done. Nagu is called to play a remarkable role in the conservation of Malaysian biodiversity.” – Professor Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz
[From left] Ms Kasturi Muthoosamy, Professor Sivakumar Manickam, Sadia Afreen (Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering) and Professor Graham Kendall.
“Sadia Afreen, a sincere, well-talented and a desrving candidate who already made outstanding contributions in the area of functionalising fullerence nanoparticles in the most facile way reported so far. The outcome of this research will be employed in devising a biosensor for diagnosing early stage cancer. As a young researcher, her commitments and efforts towards research are remarkable and her contributions and achievements are noteworthy and marked to impact.” – Professor Sivakumar Manickam
Postgraduate Teaching Award
[From left] Professor Andy Chan, Ong Kian Chuan (Department of Civil Engineering) and Professor Graham Kendall.
“Ong Kian Chuan is currently working on the research project entitled ‘A pressure-based Mach-uniform method for viscous fluid flows’ in which he developed algorithm for more efficient computations. He is the teaching assistant for the Year 4 module – Computational Fluid Dynamics. His expertise, passion and enthusiasm touched all his students and he is very popular amongst the students. He had contributed beyond his normal teaching duties to help students on the subject and the assignment.” – Professor Andy Chan
2017 Winners!
Group Photo with Professor Claire O’Malley, Supervisors and Head of Graduate School
Postgraduate Prize Awards
Qin Ting (School of Biomedical Sciences) receiving her Postgraduate Prize Award from Professor Claire O’Malley.
[From left] Qin Ting, Professor Claire O’Malley and Dr Then Sue-Mian.
“Qin Ting, fondly known as Grace, is an all-rounder: a dedicated, methodical and passionate researcher in the lab, an active sportswoman and tireless contributor and supporter to the postgraduate community within the School of Biomedical Sciences and the Faculty of Science.” – Dr Then Sue-Mian
Mei Xiang (Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering) receiving her Postgraduate Prize Award from Professor Claire O’Malley.
[From left] Mei Xiang, Professor Claire O’Malley and Professor Law Chung Lim.
“Mei Xiang has made significant achievements through her three years of PhD journey where she produced a good number of journal publications and peer-reviewed conference papers. Mei Xiang received several awards at the Faculty of Engineering Manufacturing and Industrial Processes (MIP) 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Away Day in recent years for her accomplishments in research output and research achievement. She is among the key members who initiated mobile tutoring group for underprivileged kids, a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) project under the UNMC Blue Sky and also proposed the Buddy System for new postgraduate students through the Student Association (SA) Postgraduate Student Network (PGSN).” – Professor Law Chung Lim
Alberto (School of Biosciences) receiving her Postgraduate Prize Award from Professor Claire O’Malley.
[From left] Alberto, Professor Claire O’Malley and Professor Festo Massawe.
“Alberto is a great example of a ‘well-rounded researcher’ with unique laboratory and fields skills. He is passionate about his research on underutilised crops and the role these species could play to diversify agriculture beyond the major crops. He combines science and communication of scientific research superbly. This award is a testament to his contribution to the university community and beyond but more importantly his outstanding research on winged bean – soon to be named ‘Mr Winged Bean Jr’.” – Professor Festo Massawe
