Recent Recipients

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Current

The recipient of the above award for 2019: Professor Justin Jonas (Department of Physics and Electronics)

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S DISTINGUISHED SENIOR RESEARCH AWARD

Current

The recipient of the above award for 2019: Professor Makaiko Chithambo (Department of Physics and Electronics)

Past

2018: Professor Brett Plestchke, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
2017: Professor Russell Kaschula,
School of Languages and Literature
2016: Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka, 
Environmental Learning Research Centre
2015: Professor Catriona Macleod, Department of Psychology
2014: Professor Charlie Shackleton, Department of Environmental Science and Professor Laurence JumaFaculty of Law
2013: Professor M. Hill, Department of Zoology and Entomology
2012: Professor D. Hughes, Institute for Water Research
2011: Professor P. Maylam, Department of History and Professor M. Villet, Department of Zoology & Entomology
2010: Professor A. Hodgson, Department of Zoology & Entomology?
2009: Professor L.Wright, Institute for the Study of English in Africa and Professor W.FronemanDepartment of Zoology & Entomology
2008: Professor P. Vale, Department of Political and International Studies
2007: Professor I. Kanfer, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
2006: Professor G.Blatch, Department of Zoology and Entomology
2005: Professor S.Radloff, Department of Statistics
2004: Professor V.de Klerk, Department of English Language and Linguistics
2003: Professor T.Nyokong, Department of Chemistry
2002: Professor C. McQuaid, Department of Zoology & Entomology
2001: Professor T.Hecht, Department of Ichthyology & Fisheries Science
2001: Professor P.Kaye, Department of Chemistry
2000: Professor J.Duncan, Dean of Research
1999: Professor R.Hepburn, Department of Zoology & Entomology and Professor M.van Wyk Smith, Department of English
1998: Professor M.E. Brown, Department of Chemistry and Professor C. de Wet, Department of Anthropology

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH AWARD

Current

The recipient of the above award for 2019: Dr Gladman Thondhlana (Department of Environmental Science)

Past

2018: Associate Professor Caroline Khene, Department of Information Systems
2017: Dr Sally Matthews,
 Department of Political and International Studies, and Mr Ferdi Botha, Department of Economics and Economic History
2016: Professor Julie Coetzee, Department of Botany and Dr Dion Nkomo, School of Languages
2015: Professor Adrienne Edkins, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
2014: Professor Barry Irwin, Department of Computer Science
2013: Professor J. Snowball, Department of Economics and Economic History
2012: No nominations
2011: Dr S. Vice, Department of Philosophy
2010: Professor J. Limson, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology?
2009: Professor R Simbao, Department of Fine Art
2008: no award
2007: Dr J.Burgess, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, & Biotechnology
2006: Dr M. L. Chithambo, Department of Physics & Electronics
2005: Professor M. Hill, Department of Zoology and Entomology
2004: no award
2003: Professor T.Booth, Department of Ichthyology & Fisheries Science
2002: Professor W.Sauer, Department of Ichthyology & Fisheries Science
2001: Dr R. Meintjes-van der Walt, Department of Law
2000: Dr. N. Barker, Department of Botany
1999: Ms B. Clark, Department of Law
1999: Dr W. Froneman, Department of Zoology & Entomology
1998: Dr E. Nel, Department of Geography
1997: Dr E.A. Pakhomov, Department of Statistics
1996: Dr M. Davies-Coleman, Department of Chemistry
1995: no award
1994: Professor P. Clayton, Department of Computer Science
1993: Professor R. Midgley, Department of Law
1992: Professor R. Bernard, Department of Zoology & Entomology
1991: Professor C. McQuaid, Department of Zoology & Entomology

 

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S BOOK AWARD

Current

The recipient of the above award for 2019: Professor Sam Naidu (Department of Literary Studies in English)

Past

2018: no award
2017: Professor Gary Baines
Department of History for South Africa’s Border War: Contested Narratives and Conflicting Memories (Bloomsbury)

2016: no award

2015: Professor Anthea Garman, School of Journalism and Media Studies  for Antjie Krog and the Post-Apartheid Public Sphere: Speaking Poetry to Power (UKZN Press, 2015)

2014: Professor Leonhard PraegDepartment of Political and International Studies for Ubuntu (UKZN 2014).

2013: Dr. P. Henderson, Department of Anthropology for A Kingship of Bones (Amsterdam 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Press, 2011).

2012: Professor C. Macleod, Department of Psychology for 'Adolescence', Pregnancy and Abortion: Constructing a Threat of Degeneration. (Routledge 2011).

2011: Professor H. Wasserman, Department of Journalism & Media Studies for Tabloid Journalism in South Africa (Indiana 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Press, 2010)
 
2010: Dr A. Krueger
, Department of Drama for Experiments in Freedom: Explorations of Identity in New South African Drama(Cambridge, 2010)?

2009: Dr L. Praeg, Department of Political and International Studies, for The Geometry of Violence (SUN Press, 2007)?

2008: Professor D. Wylie, Department of English for Myth of Iron - Shaka in History (UKZN Press, 2008)

2007: Professor B. Shmahmann, Department of Fine Art for Through the Looking Glass: Representations of Self by South African Women Artists (David Krut Publishing, 2004)

2006: Professor P. Maylam, Department of History for The Cult of Rhodes: Remembering an Imperialist in Africa (David Philip, 2005)

2005: Professor P. Vale, Department of Political and International Studies for Security and Politics in South Africa: the regional dimension (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003)

2004: Dr T. Martin, Department of Philosophy for Oppression and the Human Condition: An Introduction to Sartean Existentialism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002)

2003: Professor P.Maylam, Department of History for South Africa's Racial Past: The History and Historiography of Racism, Segregation, and Apartheid (Ashgate, 2001)

2002: Professor J.K. Coetzee, Department of Sociology & Industrial Sociology for Plain tales from Robben Island (Van Schaik Publishers, 2000) and Fallen walls: voices from the cells that held Mandela and Havel (Robin Island, 2002, with Lynda Gilfillan and Otakar Hulec).

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