MUARC announces 2025 Annual Award and Seeding Grant recipients
MUARC recently held its end-of-year event, where the Institute celebrated the achievements of its researchers and students by presenting the prestigious Peter Vulcan Best Paper Awards, inaugural Professional Staff Excellence Award and announcing the recipients of a MUARC Seeding Grant.
Peter Vulcan Best Paper Awards
2025 Peter Vulcan Best Paper Award - Researcher
The 2025 Peter Vulcan Best Paper Award for a researcher was awarded to Dr Amanda Stephens for her paper, Multigroup invariance of measure for angry drivers (MAD) scale using a representative sample of drivers in Australia, published in the Journal of Safety Research.
2025 Peter Vulcan Best Paper Award - Student
Christine Mulvihill received the 2025 Peter Vulcan Best Paper Award for a student for her paper, To what extent has a systems thinking approach been applied to understand motor vehicle crashes involving ambulances? A systematic review of risk factors and characteristics, published in Safety Science.
L to R: Professor Peter Vulcan AM, Dr Amanda Stephens , Professor Stuart Newstead |
L to R: Professor Peter Vulcan AM, Christine Mulvihill , Professor Stuart Newstead |
2025 MUARC Professional Staff Excellence Award
The inaugural Professional Staff Excellence Award was awarded to Peggy Hum-Teo, Senior Research and Finance Coordinator, for exceptional patience, support, and guidance in helping colleagues navigate MUARC’s research systems and processes with confidence.
L to R: Peggy Hum-Teo , Professor Stuart Newstead |
MUARC Seeding Grant
This grant is designed to support academics to develop high-quality applications to nationally and internationally competitive granting schemes. Dr Amanda Stephens received the seeding grant for her project, "Emotion in the Loop: Awareness, Trust, and Safety in Shared Mobility".
L to R: Dr Amanda Stephens, Professor Stuart Newstead |
Thank you to our volunteers
Thank you to all our staff and students who volunteer their time to support MUARC. Their contributions across Health, Safety, Wellbeing and Environment committees, a make a real difference to our culture, our operations, and our community. We’re grateful for everything you do! A special shout-out to:
| Angelo D'Elia - Health and Safety Representative | Samantha Bailey - Wellbeing Champion | Jas Proud - Green Impact Coordinator | |
| Fletcher Howell - Wellbeing Committee HDR representative; HSWE HDR representative | Wave Bumrungsup - HSWE HDR representative | Iniya Arularasu - Graduate Research Committee HDR representative | Helen Zahos - Graduate Research Committee HDR Representative |