Anita is an infectious disease epidemiologist with a research focus on vaccine-preventable disease epidemiology and immunisation uptake and a teaching focus on epidemiology and immunisation policy and practice. She is Director of Teaching at SPH and has over 10 years’ experience in designing and delivering online and blended postgraduate courses to Master of Public Health, Global Health and Infectious Disease Intelligence students. She is a passionate educator, who encourages her postgraduate students to develop and extend their prior knowledge and skills to support their career aspirations as public health professionals. She is also founding peer advisory member of Franklin Women, a network for women in health and medical research and the UNSW Medicine & Health lead for the Franklin Women mentoring program. 

In his career as an Education Focussed Academic, Ronald has made significant and measurable positive impacts on student learning experience. His passion in teaching and my skill using cutting-edge educational technologies is noticeable by my students and colleagues. He has convened and managed 19 courses and taught 36 courses in the last 3-years. Despite his extraordinary workload, he consistently achieve outstanding student feedback and course satisfaction rating way beyond the School and Faculty averages. He is a School leader in Engineering Education, serving as the School Postgraduate Coursework Coordinator. In his role, he haas made substantial impact in the School and Faculty at both the course and curriculum level aligned in the UNSW 2025 Strategy. He mentors his colleagues in best educational practices and using advanced course digitisation to enhance student learning experience. He haas also led a major Faculty Thesis Reform that was adopted by 4 other Engineering Schools in UNSW.

Kayleen is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Private and Commercial Law. She joined UNSW in 2012 after many years in the legal services sector, and transferred from her first home in UNSW Business to UNSW Law and Justice in 2021. She has taught the law of business associations, intellectual property, and business consulting to postgraduate students in the Master of Professional Accounting, Master of Commerce, Master of Business Law and Juris Doctor programs. She believes that ‘care and connection’ are both essential components of teaching and learning, above and beyond any disciplinary knowledge. Her research focusses on the effect of sociotechnical change on the legal rights and obligations of businesses and consumers. 

Peter is an Education Focused (EF) Senior Lecturer and Academic Governance Coordinator with UNSW Chemical Engineering. He has been teaching postgraduate and undergraduate engineering students for more than 10 years and has a key focus on developing his students’ capacity in design, enquiry, and professional skills. Peter was the first EF academic in the School of Chemical Engineering and is a Faculty of Engineering EF Champion and PVCESE EF Fellow. In these roles, his goals are Developing Capacity among students and teachers to engage in effective learning together; Developing Communities to share experience, identify best practice and promote learning; and Developing Curricula that provide engaging learning opportunities and prepare students for the future. 

Prior to his current role, Peter received a BE(Hons) and PhD from UNSW, worked on Dairy Australia and CO2CRC research projects, and was Deputy Head of School (External Relations) in the School of Petroleum Engineering. 

Prashant is an inspiring young postgraduate student in engineering, pursuing his master’s degree in mechanical engineering. Furthermore, the journey from India to Australia itself was a challenge to bring himself as a student of UNSW, but with his enthusiasm and focus succeed to get the full funded scholarship to study at UNSW. He holds top international industrial experience and working at UNSW as a course demonstrator has gained tremendous experience of learning teaching. Moreover, proving his technical and leadership skill, he led teams of various vertical integrated projects of UNSW.

Blessing is an emerging early career researcher in global health specializing in maternal, adolescent and child health with a growing interest in migrant health within Australia. Her research provides evidence for community-based interventions to improve health outcomes among vulnerable sub-populations particularly in low- and middle- income countries and low resource-settings. She has successfully translated her research into practice and has led community-based initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa aimed at scaling up the uptake of evidence-based interventions for improving health outcomes. Blessing is involved in international consortia such as the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Collaborator Network, the LBD Double Burden of Malnutrition Collaborators Network and the Global Maternal and Child Health Research Collaboration (GloMACH). She is also a member of the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) research stream and the Child and Adolescent Health Research Theme Group at the School of Population Health (SPH), UNSW Medicine. Blessing is currently a Postgraduate Coordinator (PGC) for the Professional Doctorate (DrPH) program, UNSW Medicine, and the Course convenor for Maternal and Child Health - PHCM9606. 

Shiva is a lecturer at school of mechanical and manufacturing engineering at UNSW. She joined UNSW in 2014. She has work experience in various countries and prestigious international universities. Prior to joining UNSW, she was employed as a research engineer at KTH University, Sweden. 

Shiva puts students at the centre of education process and uses various strategies to advance learning and educational experience of her students by presenting trending topics and preparing students for their future education or job. She always has received high students’ satisfaction and been nominated twice for best-teacher award-students’ choice in 2018 and 2019. 

Dr Gyani Shankar Sharma is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He received his PhD from UNSW Sydney and MS from IIT Madras (India). Gyani’s research focusses on wave propagation in complex media, metamaterials, acoustics, noise control, vibration, finite element methods, uncertainty analysis and optimisation. He currently teaches finite element methods and fundamentals of acoustics and noise. His courses encourage critical thinking, peer and personal reflection, and have significant open-ended problem-solving components. Gyani has two years of industrial experience as an engineer at Eaton Corporation (a Fortune 500 company). This enables him to effectively inter-link theory and practice in his courses

Juno is the director of the Sensory Processes Research Laboratory based in the School of Optometry and Vision Science at UNSW Sydney. After receiving his PhD in psychology from the University of Sydney in 2005, Juno mentored a vast array of student-led projects, including recent research using virtual reality to understand how our perception of the world depends on multisensory integration. Believing that curiosity is the foundation of scientific discovery, A/Prof Kim uses illusions in his teaching to encourage students to challenge their observations and strive for truth. He was ranked among the top 5 first-year lecturers across UNSW in KPMG’s Inspiring Teacher Award (2017, 2018). By encouraging postgraduate students to engage with industry, A/Prof Kim’s team has produced world-class research leading to published patents with Canon Inc. His collective research enterprise features in top outlets, including PNAS, Current Biology, IOVS, and on the cover of Nature Neuroscience.

Azba is a final year Master of Clinical Optometry student and has previously completed a summer research scholarship during her Bachelor of Vision Science. Over the past few years, Azba has been passionately involved in the wider community, where, in 2020, she was the President of Vision Youth UNSW and an executive of the UNSW Fred Hollows Society. In 2021, she was invited to the Student Leadership Program with Optometry Australia and is currently the President of the UNSW Optometry Society and the Chairperson of the Optometry Student Society Australia, a committee comprising representatives from each optometry school nationally. Passionate about optometry, Azba is on the SOVS Equity, Diversity, and Inclusions Committee and school board, with her most recent appointment being co-chair of the SOVS Student Wellbeing Action Group. Azba has also mentored first year students and volunteers her time to speak to high school leavers at various university events. 

Greeshma is a postgraduate in Engineering Science, specialising in Systems and Control. During her masters, she was the Marketing Co-ordinator at UNSW STEEP. She was also a Team Leader for the Engineering World Health’s social impact project for Surgical Lamp Electrical Assembly. Greeshma has been an active member of the International Satellite Design Program and was a student member at the Global University Climate Forum conducted by Yale University. Under the UNSW Professional Development Program, Greeshma worked on a project for enhancing UNSW’s Library Website. She also conducted Green Audits for various clubs and societies associated with UNSW for the Green Impact project and volunteered at the UNSW Food Hub. Greeshma has participated in feedback sessions held by the university and discussed improvement steps for a better postgraduate student experience.

Rohit is a current master’s student in Environmental Engineering and a Public Relations Officer at Civil and Environmental Postgraduate Coursework Association (CEPCA) at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW. Rohit has actively participated in CEPCA’s events to spread various aspects of Civil & Environmental Engineering to postgraduate coursework students. Rohit has also contributed to multiple events, mentoring programs & conferences at UNSW and other professional bodies. Rohit is a first-generation graduate in his family and draws his inspiration and motivation from the lives and struggles of Dr B R Ambedkar, Mahatma Phule, Mai Savitri and other social figures of India.

Renuka is a recent Post Graduate from UNSW School of Electrical Engineering specialising in Energy Systems. She is an international student from India and arrived in Australia in 2019. She has been involved in the Post graduate society called STEEP which is the official PG student society of School of EE&T. She was elected as President for the year 2020-2021 and has organised various technical and social events with the help of the School and STEEP executive team. All events were organised virtually to facilitate international student involvement who are attending university online. She is currently working as a Power System Engineer at Global Sustainable Energy Solutions in Sydney. She is an animal lover and loves to dance and cook in her free time. 

Ganesh is studying for Masters in Business Analytics and Marketing at UNSW. Previously he has completed B.Tech( Electronics and Communication). Currently, he is NUS(National Union of Students) delegate of UNSW, he represents UNSW at the National Education Conference. He is multilingual and can speak 7 languages and is a strong believer in unity in diversity. Apart from being a full-time student, he is a successful entrepreneur, cryptocurrency trader, and philanthropist. This year he has clocked over a million-dollar personal wealth starting from zero and donated a chunk of his monthly profits to Covid- relief funds. He is a perfect student who not only visions personal growth also community growth as well. He always goes by the writing - “Success is where you find your happiness”. Finally, he is not the only kind to all but spreads harmony and joy with his presence

Luqi is a highly motivated person who loves to explore different learning opportunities while studying at UNSW. She has served as Vice President of Graduate Student Association (GSA), a postgraduate student society affiliated with the Business School. Additionally, she is the current International Student Officer at Student Representative Council (SRC). Throughout the year, Luqi has been actively involved in a number of noteworthy projects and collaborated with a variety of student bodies. She was instrumental in facilitating the services of free food and accommodation subsidies to low-income international students. Being a humble and generous student leader, Luqi joined with many other student representatives to keep offshore students connected and engaged in the virtual learning environment. Going forward, Luqi will continue to support every student peer with the greatest effort and ensure that their needs are satisfied.  

My name is Ruichen is the coursework representative in Materials Science and Engineering Postgraduate Society (PGSOC). It is a great honor for her to be nominated for the Arc PGC Ambassador of the Year Award. During this year, PGSOC has organized many activities, such as the weekly “Friday Social ” and the “Welcome Party ” at the beginning of every term. And by participating in the planning of these activities, she has improved my skills in many areas, such as teamwork and communication skills. She also likes to do some poster design in her spare time, and PGSOC also gives her the opportunity to showcase herself, for example, she am responsible for the poster design of some events.