UNE Business School

The UNE Business School offers a number of prizes which it awards each year, funded by our generous donors. These prizes are a method of recognising outstanding performance by students. The Terms and Conditions vary for each Prize and can be found below.

Prize Value Terms Current Recipient
Accounting and Financial Entrepreneurship Prize - Corporate Finance$500Awarded to the student with the highest marks in AFM231 Corporate FinanceBriana Jeffries
Accounting and Financial Entrepreneurship Prize - Fundamentals of Personal Finance$500Awarded to the student with the highest marks in AFM104 Fundamentals of Personal FinanceJulianne Jarrett
Accounting and Financial Entrepreneurship Prize - Small Business Finance$500Awarded to the student with the highest marks in AFM322 Small Business FinanceMax Kavanagh
Stanley Nelson
Australian Human Resources Institute Prize in Human Resource ManagementInstitute MembershipAwarded annually to the student who has achieved the best overall GPA in Bachelor of Business (HRM)Christina Sesia
Australian Human Resources Institute Prize in Human Resource ManagementInstitute MembershipAwarded annually to the student who has achieved the best overall GPA in Master of Business Administration (HRM)Linda Muser
Australian Human Resources Institute Prize in Human Resource ManagementInstitute MembershipAwarded annually to the student who has achieved the best overall GPA in Masters of Strategic Organisational Development and HR ManagementMargaret Bowden
Barbara Meredith Memorial Prize in Small Business and Entrepreneurship$400Awarded to the student who gains the best results in AFM324/524 Small Business ManagementPuja Baral
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Prize$250Awarded to the first year undergraduate student who has the most distinguished results in the units AFM101 and AFM112 and two other 100 level unitsVincent Whitton
David Murray Memorial Award$1,000The recipient will be the highest performing Economics Honours studentNot awarded for 2023
D H Drummond Thesis Prize in Economic Studies$500Awarded for PhD Thesis in Economics, if of sufficient merit, submitted during the proceeding year in the UNE Business SchoolMatthew Wysel
Amrit Pathak
D H Drummond Thesis Prize in Economic Studies$500Awarded for Master of Economics Thesis, if of sufficient merit, submitted during the proceeding year in the UNE Business SchoolMax Whiteoak
E MacArthur Prize in Agricultural Policy$250Awarded to the most outstanding Bachelor of Agricultural and Resource Economics student in BUS481C or the Bachelor of Agribusiness with Honours student in BUS481C Not awarded for 2023
F Reece & W Tait Prize in Public Finance $250Awarded to the external student, graduate or undergraduate, who obtains the most distinguished pass in the unit ECON203/303/405 Briana Jeffries
J Crawford Memorial Prizes $500 Awarded to the external undergraduate or graduate, if of sufficient merit, who obtains the best results in QM161Josephine Smith
Nicholas Pope
J Crawford Memorial Prizes$500Awarded to the external undergraduate or graduate, if of sufficient merit, who obtains the best results in QM162Monique Reilly
Madelyn Francis
J Crawford Memorial Prizes$500Awarded to the external undergraduate or graduate, if of sufficient merit, who obtains the best results in QM262Craig Ansford
Helen Perry
J N Lewis Foundation Prize$500Awarded to the student enrolled for the Bachelor of Agricultural and Resource Economics or Bachelor of Agribusiness with Honours who achieves the best result in BUS481C.Not awarded for 2023
Jack Sinden Memorial Prize$500Awarded to an external student, graduate or undergraduate, who obtains the highest grade in the unit ECON121 Chantelle Pienaar
Safiria Buono
John D Black Prize for Agricultural Economics$250Awarded to the Bachelor of Agriculture and Economics student who obtains the best results in ECON201 and 202.George Burns
John Guise Memorial Prize $250 Awarded to the most outstanding student in ECON271/371 Introductory Econometrics Andrew Medling
Jonathon Bell
M Ambrose Memorial Prize in Economics $250Awarded to the external undergraduate who obtains the best result in the unit ECON102 Brett Hallinan
N P Cameron Memorial Award (AFM)$300Awarded to the candidate who obtains the best results in AFM211 Financial Accounting IMonique Reilly
Rama Krishna Sastry Pappu Memorial Prize$250Awarded to the student who obtains the best result in MM110 Introduction to MarketingKylie Kane
Ray Day Memorial Prize$500To be awarded to the most outstanding international student in AFM324/524 Small Business Management Rui Lin Chin
Rennie E Clayton Memorial Prize$250Awarded to the undergraduate, if of sufficient merit, who obtains the best result in ECON101 and ECON102 taken in the same year Stuart Gordon
R S Neale Memorial Fund$300Awarded to the student who has achieved the best result in a first year unit in the Economic History discipline, ECON143 Alice Harris