The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia announces the 2022 Paul Bourke Awards for early career researchers. * Harry Hobbs (UTS, law) * Felix Septianto (Uni Queensland, marketing) * Gemma Sharp (Monash U, health sciences) * Sophie Webber (Uni Sydney, geography).

Janin Bredehoeft is the new CEO of Science in Australia Gender Equity. She joins SAGE from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

The Curtin U Student Guild announces its teaching awards, * Andrew Brennan (Business and Law) * Donna Butorac (Humanities) * Robin Shortland-Jones (Health Sciences) * Fred Jourdan (Science and Engineering) and * Anthony Kickett (Aboriginal Studies)

Uni Sydney neuroscientist Glenda Halliday is NSW Scientist of the Year. (scroll down for the other premier’s prizes)

 James Cook U announces its open access award winners. Daniel Miller (Healthcare Sciences) is ECR Open Access Champion. Tianna Killoran (Arts, Society, Education) is HDR Open Access Advocate.

Shainal Kavar will start as chief information officer at La Trobe U later this month. He joins from “integrated services provider,” Downer.

Category winners in the NSW Premier’s Prizes for Science and Engineering are, David Elridge – state department of planning and environment and UNSW (public sector innovation) * Anna Giacomini – Uni Newcastle (engineering, ICT) * Jiao Jiao Li – UTS ECR, (physical sciences) * Michelle Leishman – Macquarie U (biological sciences) * Ian Preston – Murrumbidgee Regional High School (teaching) * Sudarshini Ramanathan – Uni Sydney (ECR, biological sciences) * Geordie Williamson – Uni Sydney (maths, chemistry, earth sciences, physics) * Luke Wolfenden Uni Newcastle and Hunter New England Local Health District (innovation) * Justin Yerbury – Uni Wollongong (medical biological sciences)

Lisa Whitehead (Edith Cowan U) is in-coming editor-in-chief of The Australian Journal of Nursing Practice, Scholarship and Research.