Graduate Research Prize ($250)

One prize is awarded to the postgraduate student or students who complete the most outstanding graduate diploma project or masters by coursework minor thesis project. Another prize is awarded to the postgraduate student or students who complete the most outstanding masters by research thesis or PhD thesis. Nominations close on 31 December.

Margaret and Alan Hamer Research Prize ($250)

Heads of Schools may nominate undergraduate students for this prize based on the standard of a research project completed while on course. A group of students who jointly complete a research project may also be nominated. Nominations close on 31 December.

Faculty of Health Sciences Postgraduate Coursework Award for Excellence

This award is given to the most outstanding postgraduate coursework student in the Faculty of Health Sciences who has achieved the highest weighted average of marks. The award is a cheque for $1,000.

SCU/Lincoln Scholarships (several up to $1,000)

Awarded annually to a student in second year or above. The award is based on academic ability and personal circumstances. Application information is available from the middle of the year (usually June/ July). Further information from Student Accommodation and Financial Services (telephone: 9479 2112 or 9479 2053 or email SAFSO@latrobe.edu.au) or at: www.latrobe.edu.au/finaid/

Human Biosciences

The School of Human Biosciences Prize

Awarded to the most outstanding third-year student in the discipline of physiology. The prize is a cheque for $100.

Podiatry

John Diggle Award

Awarded to the first-year Bachelor of Podiatry student who shows excellence in anatomical studies as applied in a functional context. The type and value of the award is determined annually by the donor.

Brooks Prize for Podiatric Medicine

Awarded to the third-year Bachelor of Podiatry student, who achieves the highest mark in the subject, Podiatric Specialisations (POD32PSP). The prize is a pair of Brooks running shoes.

Australian Podiatry Association (Vic) Award for Excellence

Awarded to the most outstanding fourth-year Bachelor of Podiatry student for excellence in clinical studies. The award is a 12-month membership to the Australian Podiatry Association and malpractice insurance cover of $1,000,000.

Podiatrists' Registration Board of Victoria Prize

Awarded to the most outstanding fourth-year Bachelor of Podiatry (Pass stream) student who achieves the highest aggregate score for all fourth-year subjects. The prize is a cheque for $200.

EQUUS Podiatric Award

Awarded to the Bachelor of Podiatry (Honours) student who achieves the highest overall score for their honours thesis. The award is an EQUUS book voucher to the value of $300.

The Gwen Saunders Memorial Scholarship

Awarded to a deserving first-year Bachelor of Podiatry student in memory of Gwen Saunders who played a major role in the development of chiropody/podiatry education in the State of Victoria. The scholarship is for $500 and will be used to supplement the academic and living expenses of the scholarship holder.

Prosthetics and Orthotics

Australian Orthotic Prosthetic Association Inc (AOPA) (Victorian Section) Prize

Awarded to the most outstanding first-year Bachelor of Prosthetics and Orthotics student who achieves the highest weighted average in all first year subjects. The prize consists of a $50 La Trobe University book voucher and a one-year student membership to the AOPA.

Australian Orthopaedic Association Prize

Awarded to the most outstanding second-year Bachelor of Prosthetics and Orthotics student who achieves the highest aggregate score for all prosthetics and orthotics core subjects offered in that year. The prize is a cheque for $100.

International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO) Prize

Awarded to the most outstanding third-year Bachelor of Prosthetics and Orthotics student who achieves the highest aggregate score for all prosthetics and orthotics subjects offered that year. The prize consists of a $250 La Trobe University book voucher and a one-year membership to ISPO.

Robert Gardner Memorial Prize

Awarded to the Bachelor of Prosthetics and Orthotics student or students who achieve the highest result in the third-year subject, Independent Study Project (POR32ISP). The prize is the textbook `Atlas of Orthoses and Assistive Devices'. This memorial prize is jointly sponsored by the Australian Orthotic Prosthetic Association (AOPA) and Elsevier Science/Harcourt Australia.

E. H. Armstrong Prize for Services to Lower Limb Amputees

Awarded to either a postgraduate student or Bachelor of Prosthetics and Orthotics undergraduate student in recognition of contributions to the care and management of lower limb amputees. The prize is a $250 La Trobe University book voucher.

Hans Georg Nader Prize

Awarded to the Bachelor of Prosthetics and Orthotics (Honours) student who achieves the highest overall result in the honours year. This prize is sponsored by Otto Bock (A/Asia) Pty Ltd, and consists of a cheque for $250 and a plaque.

Human Communication Sciences

Andrew Dean Fildes Foundation Award for Language Learning Disabilities

This prize will be awarded to the student in speech pathology who completes the best research paper related to language learning disabilities. The prize is a cheque for $200.

Freda Hooper Memorial Award ($200)

Awarded annually to a speech pathology undergraduate student who has made a significant contribution to the speech pathology field beyond the normal requirements of their course of study.

Language Learning Disability Special Interest Group Award ($200)

This award will be awarded to the final-year student in the Bachelor of Speech Pathology who has completed a research project of high standard and/or made a significant contribution to the area of Language Learning Disabilities. The prize is a cheque for $200.

School of Human Communication Sciences - Clinical Achievement Award ($100)

This prize is awarded in recognition of excellence in clinical skills and nominations will be accepted from internal and external clinical educators. The Clinical Achievement Award will be presented to one student from each of the second, third and fourth year levels of the undergraduate Bachelor of Speech Pathology course. Each recipient will receive a cheque for $100 and a certificate.

Speech Pathology Association of Australia Prize ($200)

The prize ($200 value) is awarded to a final-year speech pathology student for outstanding academic achievements and/or excellent clinical achievements throughout the course and especially in the final year.

Victorian Speak Easy Association Speech Pathology Student Award

This award is given annually to a speech pathology student who has demonstrated academic and clinical excellence in the area of stuttering and its treatment. The prize is a cheque for $100 and a certificate.

Winston S. Rickards Prize Medal

Awarded annually (provided that there is a candidate of sufficient merit) for the best paper submitted on therapeutic principles and their application in the field of communication disorders.

Nursing

Alzheimer's Australia Vic Prize (for metropolitan students only)

Awarded to the student enrolled in the gerontic nursing major within the Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing Science who attains the highest standard for all pieces of work submitted for the subject, Geropsychiatric Care in Nursing Practice and who demonstrates an understanding of the needs of both people with a dementing illness and their carers, and an indication of providing best practice for people with a dementing illness.

Cancer Council Victoria Prize (for metropolitan students only)

Awarded to a student of sufficient merit who has, in the relevant year, shown outstanding success in cancer nursing or palliative care nursing at postgraduate level.

Joyce Wickham Medal (for metropolitan students only)

Awarded to a student of sufficient merit who has, in the relevant year, pursued with the most distinction subjects in nursing management at postgraduate level. The award is in the form of an engraved silver medallion.

Royal College of Nursing, Australia High Achiever Award

Awarded annually to the highest achieving student in the final year of the Bachelor of Nursing (pre-registration) course.

Royal College of Nursing, Gerontic Nursing Prize (for metropolitan students only)

Awarded annually to a student who maintains an average grade of B or higher for all pieces of work submitted for the Postgraduate Diploma of Nursing Science (Gerontic Nursing).

The Royal Women's Hospital Midwifery Student Research Award

Awarded to a La Trobe University midwifery student or recent graduate to support presentation of research findings at an international or national conference.

The Villa Maria Society Aged Care Prize

Awarded to a student enrolled in one of the undergraduate nursing courses at the Bundoora campus who has shown particular skills and interest in the area of aged care.

Occupational Therapy

AAOT Victoria Inc New Graduands Award for Clinical Excellence ($100)

This prize is awarded annually to an occupational therapy student who demonstrates excellence in clinical practice throughout the course.

Derek Stewart Award ($100 book voucher)

This prize honours the memory of Derek Stewart and is donated by the Mt Eliza Centre. It is awarded to a fourth-year occupational therapy student who has demonstrated excellence in the area of geriatric rehabilitation.

Invergowrie Paediatric Prize ($200 book voucher)

This award is given to the most outstanding final-year student in the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy who has demonstrated excellence in the discipline of paediatric occupational therapy.

Janet Sloane Award ($100)

This award acknowledges the contribution Janet Sloane made to the occupational therapy profession. This award is given to the most outstanding occupational therapy student(s) for excellence in a final-year research project relevant to activities of daily living, community health or ergonomics.

School of Occupational Therapy Honours Prize ($100 book voucher)

This award is given to the most outstanding honours student in the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy.

Surgical Synergies Splinting Prize ($500)

Applications for this award will be accepted from occupational therapy students who achieve excellence in the academic and clinical aspects of splinting.

`The Alfred Group' - Janet Sloane Stroke Rehabilitation Grant

This grant is donated by `The Alfred Group', a group of occupational therapists who worked at the Alfred Hospital under the direction of Janet Sloane. Applications will be accepted from third-year occupational therapy students intending to undertake research in the area of stroke rehabilitation in the final year of their course.

Orthoptics

Diana Craig Memorial Prize

This prize commemorates the contribution of Diana Craig to orthoptics and is awarded by the Orthoptic Association of Australia (Victorian Branch) for the most outstanding research thesis undertaken in the orthoptics honours program.

J. Ringland Anderson Prize

This prize of a cheque is awarded annually by the Orthoptic Association of Australia (Victorian Branch) to the student who gains the highest marks for the orthoptic components of the final year of the bachelor program.

Physiotherapy

Australian Physiotherapy Association, Victorian Branch, Honours Research Prize

Awarded to the final-year student who gains the highest results for a research thesis.

Australian School of Therapeutic Massage Award

Awarded to the final-year student who gains the highest mark in the field of massage or soft tissue techniques in an Evidence Based Practice critically appraised topic (CAT).

Butterworth Heinemann Book Prize (Year 1)

Awarded to the first-year physiotherapy student who shows the most outstanding ability in the field of anatomy.

Butterworth Heinemann Book Prize (Year 2)

Awarded to the second-year physiotherapy student who shows the most outstanding ability in the field of anatomy.

Cardiothoracic Special Group Prize

Awarded to the student who gains the highest marks in cardiothoracic subjects (PTY31CTH and either of PTY32CPC or PTY41CPC) of the Bachelor of Physiotherapy.

Community Health Special Group Prize

Awarded to a final-year student who shows outstanding ability in this field of physiotherapy. Donated by the Community Health Special Group of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Physiotherapy Association. The prize is not necessarily awarded annually.

Constance Read Memorial Prize

Awarded to a final-year student who gains the highest percentage of marks in the physiotherapy skills components in the second year of the Bachelor of Physiotherapy. Donated by a number of physiotherapists in memory of Miss Constance Read, a member of the physiotherapy staff at the Royal Children's Hospital.

Eliza McAuley Memorial Prize

Awarded to a final-year student who is most outstanding at practical work and the management of patients. Donated by a member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association in memory of Miss Eliza McAuley, whose foresight gave a sound basis on which the course has been built.

Gerontology Special Group Prize

Awarded to the final-year student who achieves the highest mark in the subject PTY41PRG. Donated by the Gerontology Special Group of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Physiotherapy Association.

Aquatic Physiotherapy Group (Victorian Chapter APA) Prize

Awarded to the final year student who shows outstanding ability in the field of hydrotherapy in their final-year elective studies.

Josephine Jennings and Edith Pratt Memorial Prize

Awarded to the student who achieves the highest percentage of marks over the full Bachelor of Physiotherapy course. Donated by the members of the Australian Physiotherapy Association as a perpetual memorial to Miss Jennings and Miss Pratt, both of whom played a large part in the early training of physiotherapists in Victoria.

Kay Spencer Memorial Award

Awarded to the student who gains the highest mark in an `Evidence-based practice critically appraised topic (CAT)' in Neurology. The prize is in memory of Kay Spencer, a valued member of the School of Physiotherapy staff. It is provided by the Spencer family, members of staff and the Physiotherapy Students' Association.

Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia (MPA) - Clinical Prize

Awarded to the Master of Manipulative Physiotherapy student with the highest aggregate marks in the subjects, PTY50TPM Theory and Practice of Manipulative Physiotherapy and PTY50CPM Clinical Practice of Manipulative Physiotherapy.

Neurological Special Group Prize

Awarded to the final-year student who achieves the highest combined clinical and theory marks in Neurology.

Paediatric Special Group Prize

Awarded to the final-year student who achieves the highest aggregate marks in third and fourth-year paediatric physiotherapy subjects.

Physiotherapy Research Foundation Research Prize

Awarded to the final-year student who achieves the highest marks in the subject PTY40HON.

Continence and Women's Health Physiotherapy Prize

Awarded to a final-year student who shows outstanding ability in this field of physiotherapy. Donated by members of the Continence and Women's Health Physiotherapy Special Group of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Physiotherapy Association.

Public Health

Clinical Classification Prize

Awarded by the Health Information Management Association of Australia (Victorian Branch) to the Bachelor of Health Information Management student with the highest aggregate score in second-year health classification subjects.

Health Information Management Association of Australia (Vic Branch) Prize

Awarded annually by the Health Information Management Association of Australia (Victorian Branch) to the Bachelor of Health Information Management student with the highest aggregate score in the third-year subjects, Management of Health Information Systems and Health Classification

The National Centre for the Classification in Health Prize for Clinical Coding

Awarded by the National Centre for Classification in Health to the Bachelor of Health Information Management student with the highest mark in final-year clinical coding subjects.

Top Bachelor of Health Sciences Student

Awarded to the Bachelor of Health Sciences student with the highest aggregate score in core third-year subjects.

Top Bachelor of Health Sciences Honours Thesis

Awarded to the Bachelor of Health Sciences Honours thesis student whose thesis is judged as being the best.

Nancy Millis Medal for Excellence in Public Health Practice

Awarded to the most outstanding student completing the Public Health Practicum component of the Master of Health Science in Public Health Practice.

ASORC Feldman Award in Rehabilitation Counselling

Awarded annually by the Victorian Branch of the Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors to the student in the Postgraduate Diploma in Rehabilitation Studies course who has demonstrated the most outstanding knowledge and skills in the field of rehabilitation counselling.

Victorian WorkCover Authority Prize

Awarded to the student who has achieved outstanding performance in the occupational rehabilitation component of the Postgraduate Diploma in Rehabilitation Studies.