Prizes and Awards
Teaching and research excellence in the Department of Economics is demonstrated by the prizes and awards that our staff and students have received. The Department of Economics also recognises the academic excellence of our students with a number of prizes and awards. Recent prizes and awards are noted below.
Prizes and Awards received by our staff and students
Awards for Research Excellence
2012 Waikato Management School Dean's Award for Outstanding Emerging Scholar
Dr Michael Cameron
2011 Waikato Management School Dean's Award for Research Excellence
Professor John Gibson
2010 Waikato Management School Dean's Award for Research Excellence
Professor Riccardo Scarpa
2010 Waikato Management School Dean's Award for Outstanding Emerging Scholar
Dr Graeme Doole
2010 Australian Society of Agronomists, Young Agronomist of the Year
Dr Graeme Doole
2008 Winner, Agricultural Economics Society (U.K.) Prize Essay Competition
Dr Graeme Doole
2008 Waikato Management School Dean's Award for Research Excellence
Professor Phillip McCann
2008 Best Article in the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Dr Graeme Doole
2007 Waikato Management School Dean's Award for Research Excellence
Professor Mark Holmes
Awards for Teaching Excellence
2009 University of Waikato Staff Excellence Award (Teaching)
Dr Michael Cameron
2009 Waikato Management School Outstanding Teaching Award
Dr Michael Cameron
2006 Ako Aotearoa Sustained Excellent Award (National Teaching Award)
Dr Steven Lim
1997 Inaugural Waikato Management School Outstanding Teaching Award
Dr Steven Lim
Recent awards received by our students
2011 NZIER Student Poster Competition Winner (52nd Annual Conference of the NZ Association of Economists)
Jaimee Phillips
2011 Student Presentation Award (22nd Pacific Regional Science Conference)
Steven Bond-Smith
ECON100 Video Awards
Starting in 2011, students in ECON100 Business Economics and the New Zealand Economy have been given the opportunity to complete a video project as part of the assessment for the paper. The top videos in each semester receive awards, including the Oscar for the Best Overall Video.
Award winners for 2011 A semester (with links to the winning videos on YouTube) were:
Best Overall Video:
The Economics of Dating - Jennifer Robinson, Emma Langman, Charlie Sheppard, Trent Norman, and Anthony Li
2011 A Semester Winners of Best Overall Video with Dan Marsh (Chairperson of Economics)
Students' Choice Award for Best Video:
Still E.C.O.N. - Parveen Singh Basra, Chelsea Hollingsworth, and Reneel Singh
Highly Commended Award:
Money Money Money Money - Luke Van Veen, William Redmayne, Marko Zoraja, Samuel Johanson, and Jackson Ogle
At the video awards, we also gave away 100 Trillion Dollars to one lucky student, who correctly answered 15 multiple choice questions, in Who Wants to be a 100-Trillionaire. The winner in 2011 A Semester was Simone Pycke.
Simone Pycke with her 100 Trillion Dollars
Waikato Management School Dean's Prizegiving
The top students in a number of economics papers are recognised for their academic excellence with prizes in the Dean's prizegiving. Prizewinners for 2011 were:
Foundation Professor's Prize
Awarded to the top first year student in ECON100 Business Economics and the New Zealand Economy
Bryce Hartell
Brendan Thompson Prize
Awarded to the top student in ECON306/406 International Trade and Finance
Sian Wootton
JT Ward Prize
Awarded to the top student in ECON202 Microeconomics and Business Economics
Andrew Gentle
Frankton/Te Rapa Jaycees Prize in Economics
Awarded to the top student in ECON204 Quantitative Methods in Economics and Finance
Hangmei Jin
Bill and Joan Flower Trust Prize in Environmental Economics
Awarded to the top student in ECON315 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Abbie Fowler
Bill and Joan Flower Trust Prize in Global Economics
Awarded to the top student in ECON200 Macroeconomics and the Global Economy
James Chapman
Brian Silverstone Prize in Macroeconomics
Awarded to the top student in ECON501 Macroeconomic Analysis
Kendon Bell
Cengage Learning Excellence Awards
for First in ECON100-10S Business Economics and the New Zealand Economy
Toni O'Sullivan
for First in ECON100-10A Business Economics and the New Zealand Economy
Cayla Were
for First in ECON100-10B Business Economics and the New Zealand Economy
Bryce Hartell
for First in ECON200-10A Macroeconomics and the Global Economy
James Chapman
for First in ECON200-10B Macroeconomics and the Global Economy
William Mangos
for Excellence in ECON200 Macroeconomics and the Global Economy
Yi Chiann Chan
for First in ECON308/408 Managerial Economics and Strategy
Andrew Gentle
for First in ECON315/415 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Abbie Fowler
Awards for Top Secondary School Students
2011 University of Waikato Department of Economics Award for Top Economics Student at Tauranga Boys' College
Ryan Smith
2011 University of Waikato Department of Economics Award for Top Economics Student at Tauranga Girls' College
Rachelle Earwaker
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