The University of Sydney offers a number of prizes for academic excellence in specific units and programs of study, as well as a range of literary prizes. Most require an application and the submission of written work on a selected topic.
Prizes are awarded in a variety of disciplines and the winning work may include research papers, essays, poems, plays or book reviews. Many prizes also include monetary awards as well as a certificate of achievement and are recognised on your transcript.
Each year the Society for the History of Technology awards the Sidney M. Edelstein Prize, the most prestigious book prize in its field. York University professor Edward Jones-Imhotep is the first Canadian to win this prize in its 50-year history. He was awarded the prize for his book The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in Cold War Canada.
This award is given to an honours student demonstrating the highest mark in their fourth-year thesis. It is named in honour of the founder of the Trent History Department and the Canadian Studies Program, and it is awarded when merited.
Presented each year for an article or essay published in the Journal of Australian History in the previous calendar year that makes a distinguished contribution to the understanding of Australian history and contributes to the wider discipline of Australian historical studies. This prize is open to all scholars, and the winner receives a cash award and a certificate of achievement.
Founded in 1907 to recognise exemplary undergraduate students. It is a substantial award, worth $1000, and the achievement is recorded on your transcript. Applications are not required as the prize is based on a combination of mid-year and final year academic results.
The Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize is an annual competition run by Overland, an Australian literary and cultural magazine. The prize is open to writers, nationally and internationally, at any stage of their writing careers. The prize is valued at $5000, and the winning story will be published in Overland with two runners-up receiving $750 each.
The Sidney Hillman Prize is a monthly award for investigative journalism in service of the common good. The prize is administered by the Sidney Hillman Foundation in conjunction with a range of partner organisations. The call for nominations closes on the last day of each month.
The purpose of this prize is to encourage HLS students to consider more deeply the professional life of lawyers and other legal service providers, and to examine how their profession has changed over time. Papers should be focused on the legal profession in general or on specific aspects of the delivery of legal services, including diversity-related issues and globalization. They should address the ways in which the profession has adapted to respond to these and other changes.