Professional Staff Awards
This award recognises the outstanding service in the provision of a high quality working environment for staff, and/or high quality learning environment for students through positive and engaging experiences.
2023 Jenny Lim
Jenny excels in supporting the postgraduate pharmacy education team, demonstrating exceptional leadership during periods of uncertainty. Jenny’s advice in relation to coursework and student matters is an invaluable contribution to the postgraduate team (and now general teaching within the Faculty). Jenny always demonstrates a hard-working nature to support student and academic activities ranging from coursework review to assisting to organise teaching seminars.
Her adept management of conflicting priorities enhances team performance, and she has successfully implemented new working methods to support both undergraduate and postgraduate teams in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences. A valuable collaborator, she is highly regarded in her role.
2022 Casey Egan
Casey is an outstanding member of DDB- she always quietly goes above and beyond to provide support for all of us in DDB, often under her initiative.
She has been particularly selfless in her helping new groups to the DDB, and has been particularly important to the working environment during the challenging times of COVID19 and as we entered the post-Covid era. She has paid particular attention to the psychological well being of international students and staff who face great challenges in these times.
2022 Zoe Ord
Zoe's excellent contributions and support in teaching associate (TA) recruitment and training across all year levels have led to seamless educational operations in various VIM teaching units and skills coaching across all year levels. Zoe has taken the leadership role in development and implementation of Staff Allocation Management (SAM) system and Teaching Calendar (TCal).
Zoe has demonstrated a commitment to creating a friendly, supportive and inclusive learning & assessment environment in Pharmacy OSCEs over the years.
2021 Alastair Thomas
Alastair commenced this role just as COVID-19 impacted on faculty events, but he has been able to adapt to the current environment, he has remained positive and he has great enthusiasm for his work with providing students with an inclusive, safe faculty experience.
In particular, Al worked closely with academic leadership to design and implement the PIES program, which promotes inclusion and belonging for international students. The program was so successful that it has recently received funding to be rolled out across another eight faculties.
Al has a great connection with students and staff with his friendly and inclusive personality.
2020 Winfield Jugo
Winfield Jugo is the Technical Supervisor in the Faculty Technical Resources team. He is responsible for the ordering of all chemicals, glassware and equipment for all D4 groups and undergraduate teaching. Additionally, Win manages the waste removal for all research themes- a job made more difficult due to COVID restrictions. Win's supervision of the COVID restrictions has enabled research to continue in a seamless fashion. He passionately supports Monash inclusive workplace culture by treating all new comers in a very positive manner. His office door is open to any staff or student who is seeking assistance with any research, technical or teaching matters.
2020 Jason Dang
Jason Dang is the Spectroscopy Facility Manager. He goes above and beyond in terms of the service he provides to Spectroscopy Facility users, and is very accommodating to even non-standard requests. Thanks to Jason’s leadership, the Spec Facility operates with an inclusive culture and is one of our most important learning environments. He trains research students and staff in many techniques and often runs advanced experiments. Jason is a master negotiator who has brokered some incredibly good deals for Monash at the time of equipment purchase.
2019 Nicki Penny
As the inaugural recipient of the Professional Staff Award, Nicki Penny was acknowledged for her dedication to providing high quality services to academic and professional staff at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Over many years Nicki has consistently applied her unwavering commitment as a professional team member, often going out of her way to ensure the ‘seamless’ operations that support our research, research training and teaching activities. Nicki thinks outside the box, and has made marked improvements in our operational workflows; has collaborated across the Department, Faculty and University to ensure best practice in her immediate workplace; and has introduced mechanisms for weekly events to support an enhanced culture for our students.