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Engagement Awards

The CQUniversity Opal Awards

Excellence in Engagement

The CQUniversity Australia Opal Awards recognise and encourage outstanding engagement by CQUniversity staff and students with the community.

The award categories open to CQUniversity staff members are:

  • Engaged Learning and Teaching
  • Engaged Research and Innovation
  • Engaged Service.

The winning project within each of these categories will receive an Excellence in Engagement Award consisting of:

  1. A CQUniversity Engagement Opal pin for each member of the winning project per category;
  2. A CQUniversity Engagement Grant of $2500 for each of the three overall winning projects which can be used to further the current engagement project or to establish a new engagement project (subject to approval).
  3. Recognition of excellence by:
    - citation on CQUniversity’s Engagement website;
    - publication in UniNews; and
    - CQUniversity Opal Awards Category Winner certificate.
All finalists will receive a CQUniversity Opal Award Category Finalist Certificate.

The award category open to CQUniversity students is:

  • Engaged Service Learning

Every eligible application within this category will receive recognition of excellence in engagement by:

  1. CQUniversity Opal Awards certificate;
  2. citation on CQUniversity’s Engagement website; and
  3. publication in UniNews.

Please see the Excellence in Engagement Awards Procedure for further details, as well as a Nomination Form.

Nominations close 30 September 2012

2012 Opal Awards Winners

Engaged Research and Innovation

  • Winner - 10,000 Steps - Dr Mitch Duncan, Dr Corneel Vandelanotte, Anetta Van Itallie, Kelly Corry, Cindy Hooker, Luke Fallon,Stephanie Hall.
  • Finalist - Domestic and Family Violence Database - Heather Nancarrow, Anne Webster, Clinton Rawsthorne
  • Finalist - Growing Community Resilience in Theodore - Wendy Madsen, Cathy O'Mullan

Engaged Service

  • Winner - Earth Day - Gai Sypher, Jessie Phelan
  • Finalist - From Time Travel to Lunch and Learn - Creating Online CPD Training for Building Surveyors - Darryl O'Brien
  • Finalist - Sleep Education in the Community - Dr Sarah Blunden

Engaged Service Learning (Students)

  • Nominee - Clinical Handover at the Bedside - Rehab Unit - Patricia Callow; and
  • Nominee - CQUniversity Nepal Nursing and Midwifery Experience 2011 - A cohort of 17 second and third year nursing and midwifery students and staff.

2011 Opal Awards Winners

Engaged Learning and Teaching

  • Winner – CQUniversity Children’s Theatre Workshop – Kim Kirkman and Ian Gaskell;
  • Finalist – Disaster Resilience Education Project – Julianne Impiccini, Ali Black, Lyn Hughes, Kyle Stein, ALC Management Team; and
  • Finalist – Romp in the Park 2011 – Gillian Busch and Emma Killion. 

Engaged Research and Innovation

  • Winner – Driver Fatigue in Central Queensland -  Lee Di Milia; and
  • Finalist -  IT at the Coalface – Ashley Holmes, Dennis Jarvis, Jacqueline Jarvis and Ricky Prout.

Engaged Community Service

  • Winner – Idiom 23 Writers’ Workshop – Lynda Hawryluk and Liz Huf;
  • Finalist – Teachers Being Childwise – Rose-Marie Thrupp;
  • Finalist – International Engineering and Technology Education Conference – Arun Patil, Patrick Keleher, Amanullah Maung Than Oo, Mushtak Al-Atabi, Marlia Puteh and Sid Nair; and
  • Finalist – Sea Dreams Gladstone Festival of Creative Arts – Andrew Wallace and Helen Holden.

2010 Opal Awards Winners

Engaged Learning and Teaching

Engaged Research and Innovation

Engaged Community Service