WILNZ Awards
WILNZ Awards 2025
We are pleased to open the nominations on the 1st of November, 2024 for the following WILNZ awards to be presented at the WILNZ conference in 2025:
WILNZ Service Award
This award recognises outstanding service and contribution to WILNZ operations or a WILNZ project over the previous two years.
WILNZ Innovation and Excellence Award
This award recognises innovative and sustained excellent practice of WIL by an individual, a work team, or through a WIL programme.
WILNZ Research Excellence Award
This award is in recognition of a published scholarly output of excellence.
WILNZ Collaboration Award
This award is in recognition of distinguished and effective collaboration by an external organisation with a higher education institution to further WIL.
WILNZ Honorary Life Member Award
This substantive award is in recognition of sustained excellent contribution to WILNZ.
WILNZ Fellow Award
This substantive award is in recognition of an individual who has achieved and sustained excellent and distinguished academic contribution to WIL nationally and have impacted the international WIL community.
Nominations close Friday 7th February 2025.
If you have any questions, please contact the Chair of the WILNZ Awards committee, Jenny Fleming, [email protected].
WILNZ makes a number of awards annually – you can find details here.
Life Members
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Chris Kirk
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Chris Eames
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David Hodges
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Richard Coll
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Katharine Hoskyn
Fellow Award
- 2020 Richard Coll
- 2020 Karsten Zegwaard
- 2022 Andrew Martin
- 2024 Jenny Flemming
Innovation & Excellence Award
2024 The Impact Lab, University of Waikato.
Team members included: Gail Hutcheson, Lee Martin, Natasha Miller, Sandy Muller & Karsten Zegwaard
Collaboration Award
New award, not yet awarded
Service Award
New award, not yet awarded
Research Excellence Award
2024 The Routledge International Handbook of Work-integrated Learning.
Editors: Associate Professor Karsten Zegwaard & Dr Judene Pretti.
Allister McLay Best Paper Award
- 2024 Samantha Holland, Ernest Edem Edifor, Jane Goodyer, James Mackay, Elizabeth Gorb, and Jonathan Lawson
- 2023 Gail Adams-Hutcheson and Karsten Zegwaard
- 2022 no award
- 2022 no award
- 2021 no award
- 2020 Conference cancelled
- 2019 no award
- 2018 Megan Roberts and Yvonne Woods
- 2017 Sarah Snell and Catherine Snell-Siddle
- 2016 Theresa Winchester-Seeto and Anna Rowe
- 2015 Joint winners: Kathryn McLachlan, Felicity Rawlings-Sanaei, Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Colina Mason, Rebecca Bilous; and Aaron Steele and Sandra Cleland
- 2014 Catherine Snell-Siddle, Sarah Snell, and Aaron Steele
- 2013 Theresa Winchester-Seeto, Anna Rowe and Jacqueline Mackaway
- 2012 David Skelton
- 2011 Karsten Zegwaard and Matthew Campbell
- 2010 Murray Cullen
- 2009 Mathew Campbell
- 2008 Neil Haigh
- 2007 Allister McLay passed away; the 2008 award carried his name
- 2007 Dave Hodges and Diana Ayling (Best Paper Award)