Graduate Research Leadership award

Associate Professor Tania Crotti (School of Biomedicine) is the recipient of the 2023 Australian Council of Graduate Research Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Leadership. This award recognises an individual in a research training leadership role who demonstrates inspirational and effective local graduate research leadership at a School, Faculty or other academic unit level.

As a co-facilitator of the HDR Community of Practice and postgraduate coordinator manager in the School of Biomedicine at the University of Adelaide, Associate Professor Crotti has been a vocal champion for graduate research, making an important difference to the progression and wellbeing of many of the school’s graduate researchers.

“I believe a strong and supportive HDR community requires an open exchange of ideas and respectful questioning of research, design and interpretation, between the HDR candidates and researchers at all levels and across a range of disciplines.

“I feel that supporting students early on in their decision to embark on the journey profoundly impacts their experience and contributes to creating a strong intellectual community that is inclusive of HDRs at different stages of career and research interests”, said Professor Crotti.