Awards and Recognition 2024

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AAG recognised and awarded worthy and committed AAG members and Grant Awardees at the 2024 Annual General Meeting & AAG Research Trust Update. Congratulations to all worthy recipients of awards received for this year. Click on the dropdown arrow to see all the awardees for this year.
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ShahinoorAkterVIC14/08/2024Vic Division Bursary to attend the AAG ConferenceBursary amount for ECR: $1,400VICDIVBURSCONF
MelkamuBeyeneSA20/11/2024SA Division Bursary to attend the AAG ConferenceAAG SA will provide a maximum of $500 per person for AAG student and early career researchers who have had their abstract accepted for the conference with the proviso that they have no support from a sponsor organisation that has funded attendance and costs associated with the conference.SADIVBURSCONF
MoniqueBoordSA13/08/2024Robert Penhall Early Career Research Award - SA Division Robert Penhall Early Career Research Award - SA Division
DanielBrownQLD17/10/2024Hal Kendig Research Development ProgramTitle of project: Understanding the Expectations and Experiences of Aged Care Services for LGBTQI+, Sistergirl and Brotherboy older people and IntersectionalityHal Kendig Research Development Program
BelindaCashVIC30/10/2024AAG Fellow AAG Fellow
GeorginaChelbergQLD14/08/2024QLD Division Bursary to attend the AAG ConferenceThe AAG QLD Division bursary is provided in the form of subsidised AAG 2024 conference registration ($750 off the applicable Full Conference registration fee).QLDDIVBURSCONF
LizzieCusworthVIC13/12/2024AAG NSW Top Student Prize (Gerontology) - Charles Sturt University (CSU)NSW Division student prize at CSUNSWSTDCSUGERO
MoiraDunsmoreNSW17/10/2024Hal Kendig Research Development ProgramTitle of project: Developing integrated care models for older adults with dual sensory impairment (DSI) and their family carers.Hal Kendig Research Development Program
DariaGutteridgeSA30/09/2024RM Gibson AwardeeTitle of project: Optimising antihypertensive treatment in older Australians with and without dementia in residential care homesRM Gibson Awardee
LouiseHorstmanshofNSW30/10/2024AAG Distinguished Member AAG Distinguished Member
GeorginaJohnstoneVIC30/10/2024AJA Peer Reviewing AwardSignificant contribution in peer reviewing for the AJAAJAREV
JenniferJonesVIC17/10/2024Strategic Innovation AwardeeTitle of project: "When can I go home?" Predicting discharge home from hospital for people with frailtyStrategic Innovation Awardee
DanielleKennedyQLD28/10/2024Arthur Everitt Award for AAG student members Arthur Everitt Award for AAG student members
SamanKhalatbari-SoltaniNSW9/09/2024AAG NSW SECG Publication Award – Impact AwardThe prize is for NSW student and early career members of the AAG to be awarded and recognised for a publication (or planned publication) that has had particularly outstanding impact in ageing research and practice. Publication: Worldwide cohort studies to support healthy ageing research: data availabilities and gaps'NSWSECGPUB2
ZemeneKifleTAS5/09/2024TAS Division Bursary to attend the AAG ConferenceAAG Tasmania will provide three scholarships of $350 for three AAG student members who are not receiving other funding to attend the AAG Conference whose abstracts have been accepted for the AAG Conference in HobartTASDIVBURSCONF
Wei QiKohQLD30/09/2024RM Gibson AwardeeTitle of project: Co-designing a pet robot to support people living with dementiaRM Gibson Awardee
DannaLeeQLD5/08/2024QLD Division Bursary to attend the AAG ConferenceThe AAG QLD Division bursary is provided in the form of subsidised AAG 2024 conference registration ($750 off the applicable Full Conference registration fee).QLDDIVBURSCONF
RobynLewisACT25/11/2024ACT Division Conference BursaryThe AAG ACT Division bursary is provided in the form of subsidised AAG 2024 conference registration ($750 off the applicable Full Conference registration fee).ACT Division Conference Bursary
RobynLewisACT30/09/2024RM Gibson AwardeeTitle of project: The Experience of Living and Working in Small-scale Residential Dementia CareRM Gibson Awardee
EbonyLewisNSW17/10/2024Strategic Innovation AwardeeTitle of project: Co-designing and piloting a theory-informed, evidence-based intervention to minimise social frailty in carers of people in later lifeStrategic Innovation Awardee

We were also delighted to be able to present some of them at the Conference in Tasmania

The award recipients, shown from the top row left to the bottom row right, are as follows:

  • Life Members - Prof Yvonne Wells and Dr Claudia Meyer
  • Thank you to Chair of the AAG Research Trust Steering Committee - Emeritus Prof Linda Rosenman
  • AAG Fellow - A/Prof Belinda Cash
  • AAG Fellow - Dr Joanna Sun
  • Distinguished Member - Dr Rachel Winterton
  • AAG Research Trust Awardees – Lindy Moffat, Dr Daria Gutteridge, Ms Robyn Lewis; (Ms Shin Liau not pictured)
  • The 2024 Arthur Everitt Award recipient - Danielle Kennedy
  • AJA 2024 Book Awardee – Duncan McKellar
  • AJA Recognition of Significant Contribution to Peer Reviewing - Ms Georgina Johnstone

The 2024 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research focus awardee

The AAG Research Trust is committed to funding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led initiatives. Key to this goal is a separate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Review Panel to lead and support the selection of Indigenous-focused applications.

Ms Lindy Moffat - Senior Research Assistant, Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA)
Older Aboriginal women’s business: Understanding lived experiences of menopause

Follow this link for more information about the AAG Research Trust Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Focus.

The 2024 Hal Kendig Research Development Program Awardees

Professor Hal Kendig was as a leader and a powerful influence in shaping a national and international discourse on ageing, as well as a great advocate for the needs of older people. This Program reflects Hal's many outstanding contributions as well as his wish to continue to support early career researchers in their pursuit of research excellence. The Program is made possible by Hal’s family making an extraordinarily generous donation of $730,000 to the AAG Research Trust for the Hal Kendig Research Development Program, following Hal’s passing in June 2018. For more information regarding the late Emeritus Professor Hal Kendig please click here.

Dr Moira Dunsmore, Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
Developing integrated care models for older adults with dual sensory impairment (DSI) and their family carers.

Dr Daniel Brown, Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist, University of Southern Queensland
Understanding the Expectations and Experiences of Aged Care Services for LGBTQI+, Sistergirl and Brotherboy older people and Intersectionality

Follow this link for more information about the Hal Kendig Research Development Program and past recipients.

The 2024 Strategic Innovation Program Awardees

The Strategic Innovation Program initiative was made possible by the generous bequest from the estate of William Peter Steele Nicolson in 2016/17.

Ms Ebony Lewis, Scientia Lecturer, University New South Wales
Co-designing and piloting a theory-informed, evidence-based intervention to minimise social frailty in carers of people in later life

Dr Jennifer Jones, Lecturer and Physiotherapist, University of Melbourne and Austin Health
"When can I go home?" Predicting discharge home from hospital for people with frailty


The following additional Strategic Innovation Program grant was awarded through our valued partnership with the Dementia Australia Research Foundation (DARF):

Dr Linda McAuliffe, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care (ACEBAC), Latrobe University
Exploring connectedness in older people living with dementia in residential aged care: Experiences of ConnecTo

Follow this link for more information about the Strategic Innovation Program and past recipients.

The 2024 RM Gibson Program Awardees

The RM Gibson Program. The fund was set up to honour the memory of Dr Richard (Dick) Maxwell Gibson who played a foundation role in the development of gerontology within Australia. He made a significant contribution to the AAG, including serving as our National President and the inaugural Chairman of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics Asia Oceania Region. The Grant recipients are:

Dr Wei Qi Koh, Lecturer in Occupational therapy, The University of Queensland
Co-designing a pet robot to support people living with dementia

Dr Daria Gutteridge, Research Fellow, University of South Australia
Optimising antihypertensive treatment in older Australians with and without dementia in residential care homes



Ms Robyn Lewis, PhD Candidate, University of Canberra
The Experience of Living and Working in Small-scale Residential Dementia Care


The following additional RM Gibson Program grant was awarded through our valued partnership with the Dementia Australia Research Foundation (DARF):

Ms Shin Liau, Research Fellow and PhD candidate, Monash University
Principles for optimising medicines management in older people living with frailty and dementia

 

Follow this link for more information about the RM Gibson Program and past recipients.

The 2024 Arthur Everitt Award recipient

Danielle Kennedy - University of the Sunshine Coast

Follow this link for more information about The Arthur Everitt Award.

AAG Life Members

Life Membership is one of the highest honours that the Australian Association of Gerontology can bestow on its members. Awards are made as necessary. Life Members have a long and distinguished record of service as a members and contribution to the Gerontology Community.


The 2024 Life Member Inductees:

Dr Claudia Meyer (Vic)



Prof Yvonne Wells (Vic)


Follow this link for more information about AAG Life Members and past inductees.

AAG Fellows

The AAG Fellowship award established in 1999 is intended to recognise high professional standing of members in any field of gerontology.

This year the Fellowship award goes to:

A/Prof Belinda Cash (Vic)

 Dr Joanna Sun (Tas)

 

Follow this link for more information about AAG fellows and past recipients

AAG Distinguished Members

The AAG Distinguished Member award recognises members who have given outstanding service to AAG over many years, through serving on AAG State and Territory Divisional Committees and/or the AAG Board or previous equivalents, contributing to a range of activities to promote the achievement of AAG's purpose.

The 2024 Distinguished Members recipients:

Dr Louise Horstmanshof (NSW)

A/Prof Joyce Siette (NSW)

Dr Rachel Winterton (VIC) pictured

 

Follow this link for more information and past Distinguished Members.

AJA 2024 Book Awardee

Duncan McKellar  
“An everyone story”

 

 

 

 

 


Highly Commended


Elizabeth MacKinlay & Ann Harrington
“Changing cultures of ageing and spirituality”

 

 
 
 
 
 

(A/Prof Belinda Cash accepting the award on behalf of Elizabeth & Ann)
 
Certificate in Recognition of Significant Contribution to Peer Reviewing
Ms Georgina Johnstone - Bolton Clarke