University of Tasmania, Australia

Winner (Best Poster and Defence) - Laura Laslett - $1000
Topic: Zoledronic acid for bone marrow lesions of the knee: a randomised controlled trial.  (Menzies Research Institute)

Runner-up (Best Poster & Defence) - Katharine Herbert - $500
Topic: Characterisation of the SIRT1:p53 axis in cultured human keratinocyte cell lines. (Human Life Sciences)

People's Choice (Best Poster) - Alister Clark - $250
Topic: Crowdsourcing Environmental Sustainability? Opportunities and issues in using the interactive internet for environmental management. (Geography & Environmental Sciences)

Winner - Will Bignell - $2000
Topic: Enhancing the good omega-3’s in Tasmanian lamb meat through genetics and diet. (Ag Science & CSIRO Food Futures Flagship)

Runner-up - Zhongnan Jia (Molly) - $1000
Topic: Do Antarctic krill need food to survive in the winter? (IMAS)

People's Choice - Will Bignell - $500
Topic: as above

The prize money is to be used towards research expenses, including conference travel.  Where prize money is given as a travel grant its use is restricted:  Travel must entail at least one distinct purpose which is clearly relevant and academically justifiable although it does not need to be essential to the completion of the thesis.

Acceptable purposes include the following:

• collecting field data
• accessing research materials or facilities that are unavailable in Australia
• working in a laboratory, research institute
• meeting researchers overseas, or
• presenting a paper or a poster at an overseas conference
• obtaining research experience as part of the higher degree research training, or 
• consolidating research links with overseas universities and research institutions.