Research Awards
The FBL Research Awards are part of our commitment to excellence in research, leadership and research supervision. The Industry Engagement Awards recognise the importance of being industry connected.
This award encourages upcoming researchers and acknowledges their research output. The New Researcher of the Year category is open to Early Career Researchers at Academic Level C or below.
2024 Recipient
- Dr Adam Crowe (School of Accounting, Economics & Finance)
Highly Commended
- Dr Panagiotis Sotirakopoulos (Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre)
2023 Recipients (Joint Winners)
- Dr Abebe Hailemariam (Bankwest-Curtin Economics Centre)
- Dr Christopher Phelps (School of Accounting, Economics & Finance)
2022 Recipient
- Dr June Cao (School of Accounting, Economics and Finance)
Highly Commended
- Dr Ranjodh Singh (School of Accounting, Economics and Finance)
This award recognises research activities that demonstrate leadership (including mentoring), result in significant research outcomes, make a contribution to FBL research culture and collaboration, and increase external recognition by attracting interest both nationally and globally.
2024 Recipient
- Professor Piyush Sharma (School of Management and Marketing)
2023 Recipient
- Professor Astghik Mavisakalyan (Bankwest-Curtin Economics Centre)
2022 Recipient
- John Curtin Distinguished Professor Marylène Gagné (Future of Work Institute)
This award recognises and rewards excellent HDR research supervision. Applications should address an FBL staff member’s combined supervision activities, where they have supervised more than one HDR student, in the relevant year.
2024 Recipient
- Dr Anwar Sadat Shimul (School of Management and Marketing)
Highly Commended
- Professor Astghik Mavisakalyan (Bankwest-Curtin Economics Centre)
2023 Recipient
- Professor Mingming Cheng (School of Management & Marketing)
2022 Recipient
- Dr Harj Singh (School of Accounting, Economics and Finance)
This award recognises a high-quality research output that has generated impact or demonstrated significant potential for impact within and beyond academia.
2024 Recipients (Team Award)
- Dr Anwar Sadat Shimul (School of Management and Marketing)
- Dr Kevin Teah (School of Management and Marketing)
- Associate Professor Min Teah (School of Management and Marketing)
2023 Recipient
- Dr June Cao (School of Accounting, Economics and Finance)
2022 Recipients
- Associate Professor Mingming Cheng (School of Management and Marketing)
- Associate Professor Amy Tian (School of Management and Marketing)
This award takes into account the variety of ways in which researchers promote FBL research beyond academia, and aims to foster a culture that values engagement and impact activities with organisations – be they governmental, public or private sector, or not-for-profit.
2024 Recipient
- Associate Professor Htwe Htwe Thein (School of Management & Marketing)
2022 Recipient
- Dr Lien Duong (School of Accounting, Economics and Finance)
Highly Commended
- Dr Anwar Sadat Shimul (School of Management & Marketing)
This award recognises a demand-driven research project, undertaken with an organisation (public, private or not-for-profit), that has had clear demonstrable benefits for the organisation and potentially for the wider community.
2024 Recipients (Team Winner)
- Associate Professor Daniela Andrei (School of Management and Marketing)
- John Curtin Distinguished Professor Sharon Parker (Future of Work Institute)
- Dr Jane Chong (Future of Work Institute)
- Dr Madison Kho (Future of Work Institute)
- Dr Lucinda Iles (Future of Work Institute)
- Dr Eyal Karin (Future of Work Institute)
- Dr Hayley Moore (Future of Work Institute)
Highly Commended (Team)
- Professor Kirsten Holmes (School of Management and Marketing)
- Professor Peter McEvoy (School of Population Health)
- Dr James Clarke (School of Population Health)
- Ms Brianna Guerrini (School of Psychology)
2023 Recipient
- Associate Professor Liz Jackson (School of Management & Marketing)
Highly Commended
- Dr Daniel Kiely (Bankwest-Curtin Economics Centre)