This prize was established in 1966 by Lady Elizabeth Bright in memory of her mother, Mrs Ann Flaxman. Lady Bright was a distinguished physician and writer who became patron of the South Australian branch of the Women Writers Association.
Her connection to Flinders was through her husband, Sir Charles Bright, who was a foundational member of Council, its first pro-Chancellor and second Chancellor.
- The Ann Flaxman Prize in English shall be awarded annually to the graduating student with the highest aggregate mark for an Honours degree in English.
- To be eligible, the student must achieve overall H1 (First Class).
- The value of the prize shall be $300 to be paid from the endowment fund until the prize funds are exhausted.
- If in any year the prize is not awarded or the income from the endowment exceeds the amount of the prize, the value of such prize or excess income shall be added to the capital of the fund.
- If more than one student achieves the same highest aggregate mark, the prize will be divided equally among them
Recipients
1967 Blanaid A MacDonagh
1968 Deane F Broomhead; Mary E Kenneally
1969 David H Parker
1970 Andrew J Miles
1971 Edward Heatley; Philippa J Hosking
1972 Annette L Croft
1973 Ann Reynolds
1974 Carolyn Fleming
1975 Christopher Lange; David J Tacey
1976 Kenneth D Gelder
1977 Olivia M Hassell
1978 Marilyn J Jacobs
1979 No award
1980 No award
1981 Catherine M Kenneally
1982 No award
1983 Pauline Carter
1984 No award
1985 Helen B Chandra
1986 Antony Moore
1987 Patricia D Partington
1988 No award
1989 Elizabeth A Bullen
1990 Darren S Gaunt
1991 Simon P Healy
1992 Martin J Duckmanton
1993 Bernard F Wilson; Susan B Mills
1994 Melinda Graefe
1995 Richard Conyers; Ruth Starke; Gillian Dooley
1996 Peter Doley
1997 Rebecca Johinke
1998 Stephen Collins
1999 Angela Kingston
2000 Malcolm Walker
2001 Tully Barnett
2002 Desiree Prideaux
2003 Peter Manthorpe
2004 Greg Opie
2005 No award
2006 Adrian Thrunwald; Meg Madden; Christine Runnel
2007 Katrina Finlayson
2008 Hannah Kent
2009 Amanda Williams
2010 Pamela Graham
2011 Melanie Hocking
2012 Peter Beaglehole
2013 Sean Haylock; Alicia Carter
2014 Grace Chipperfield
2015 Shannon Sandford
2016 Hugh Pike
2017 Jennifer Hekmeijer
2018 Lisandra Linde
2019 Eloise Quinn-Valentine
2020 Tennyson Litchfield
2021 Kayla Sanchex
2022 Charlotte Elliott; Jessica Elton
2023 Liam Rogers-Murphy
2024 Isabella Brady
This prize was established in 2025 by Associate Professor Anton Lucas and his wife Kadar Lucas to recognise exceptional performance by first-year students in Indonesian Studies. Associate Professor Lucas joined Flinders in 1981 to teach in the Indonesian Language program. He helped establish the Asian Studies major and the Department of Asian Studies and Languages, becoming Head of the Department in 2002 and then Director of the Flinders Asia Centre from 2004 to 2009, before retiring in 2010. Anton and Kadar generously gifted the Pendopo to the University in 1990.
- The value of the prize shall be $500 and shall be awarded annually until funds are exhausted.
- The prize shall be awarded to the student with the best combined marks in the beginners’ topics (1201 & 1202).
- If more than one student achieves the same highest marks, the prize shall be divided equally amongst them.
This prize was established in 2025 by Associate Professor Anton Lucas and his wife Kadar Lucas to recognise exceptional performance by students majoring in Indonesian Studies. Associate Professor Lucas joined Flinders in 1981 to teach in the Indonesian Language program. He helped establish the Asian Studies major and the Department of Asian Studies and Languages, becoming Head of the Department in 2002 and then Director of the Flinders Asia Centre from 2004 to 2009, before retiring in 2010. Anton and Kadar generously gifted the Pendopo to the University in 1990.
- The value of the prize shall be $1,000 and shall be awarded annually until funds are exhausted.
- The prize shall be awarded to the student with the highest average marks across core language topics for the major plus two culture topics.
- Students in both the beginner stream and advanced stream are eligible.
- Native speakers are not eligible.
- If more than one student achieves the same highest average marks, the prize shall be divided equally amongst them.
- The value of the prize shall be $500.
- The prize shall be awarded, every year that the topic is offered, to the student who achieves the highest mark in ARCH8808, Introductory Archaeological Geophysics.
- If more than one student achieves the same highest mark for the topic, the prize shall be divided equally amongst them.
Recipients
2016 No award
2017 Georgina Stewart
2018 No award
2019 Lauren Chester
2020 No award
2021 Rebecca Milne
2023 Kate Lawrence
This prize was established in 2011 by Dr Jillian Comber who is Director of Comber Consultants, an award-winning archaeology and cultural heritage consultancy, and has a long history of contributing to Archaeology at Flinders University. Her husband David Nutley, Director of Comber Consultants’ Maritime Archaeology section, earned his Master of Maritime Archaeology from Flinders; and both serve as Adjunct Research Fellows at Flinders.
Jillian established this prize to motivate students to pursue a profession in archaeology and cultural heritage management and to reward their commitment. Jillian is keen to give a boost to the next generation of archaeologists as they launch their careers.
- The value of the prize shall be $1,000.
- The Comber Consultant Prize for Archaeology shall be awarded to the student who achieves the highest mark for a Master of Archaeology and Heritage Management thesis/research project in each calendar year.
- If more than one student achieves the same mark the prize shall be shared equally amongst them.
Recipients
2011 Julia Garnaut; Jennifer Hughes
2012 Rikke Hammer
2013 No award
2014 Michael De Ruyter
2015 No award
2016 Owen Hems
2017 Emily McBride
2018 David Ross
2019 Christine Adams
2020 Jerem Leach
2023 Isabella Arlotta
2024 Alexandra Snep
- The value of the prize shall be a book to be selected by the Italian Consul in South Australia.
- The book prize shall be awarded to the student enrolled full-time or part-time in Italian at Flinders University or at the University of Adelaide who attains the highest mark in First Year Italian (Advanced Stream). The results attained in both Semester 1 and Semester 2 in the one year will be taken into account.
- If two students achieve the same highest mark, two book prizes shall be awarded. If the Italian discipline decides that no candidate is of sufficient merit for the prize to be awarded in a given year, the prize shall not be awarded.
Recipients
2007 Paolo Sossi
2008 Megan Payne
2009 Nadia Ridge
2010 Erica Panagakos
2011 Julianna Kittel
2012 Heather Tilmouth; Cameron Villarosa
2013 Kahlia Gronthos; Catherine O'Sullivan
2014 Rennie Turner
2015 Liana Rossi
2016 Jessica Limongelli
2017 Ada Snell; Stephanie Mesarek
2018 Adriano Positano
2019 No award
2020 No award
2021 Heloise Baker
2022 Natasha Korbut
2023 Samoda Silva
2024 Grace Richter-Gilbert
This prize honours the legacy of Dr Ruth Starke, a brilliant writer, critic and teacher who inspired generations of students and readers.
Dr Starke completed her Bachelor of Creative Arts and PhD at Flinders University, where she later taught Creative Writing. She was also a prolific author of children’s and young adult books, as well as a respected reviewer and editor. The prize was established in 2023 by her daughters, Miranda and Petra Starke, who generously donated funds along with other members of the community.
The prize celebrates the best creative writing by Flinders students and recognises their passionate pursuit of language and literature.
- The value of the prize shall be $1,000 and shall be awarded annually.
- The prize shall be awarded to an undergraduate student in Year 1, 2 or 3 who achieves the highest mark for a creative work produced for a Creative writing topic.
- In the event of a tie, the top-ranked stories will be assessed by Creative Writing staff and a winner chosen.
- Previous awardees are eligible to win the prize again.
- The prize is not limited to Creative Writing majors.
Recipients
2023 Paige Johnstone
2024 Zoe Shepherd
- The value of the prize shall be $300 per year.
- The prize shall be awarded to the student who attains the highest combined marks for the topics MGRE3201 and MGRE3202 in a single calendar year.
- If more than one student achieves the same highest mark, the prize shall be divided equally amongst them
Previous recipients
2018 Aristotelis Devrelis
2019 No Award
2020 Victoria Kollias
2023 Sylvain Talbot
- The value of the prize shall be $300 per year.
- The prize shall be awarded to the student who attains the highest mark in the culture topic MGRE2214.
- If more than one student achieves the same highest mark, the prize shall be divided equally amongst them.
Recipients
2018 Frey Micklethwait
2019 Katherine Sutcliffe
2020 No award
2021 Yolanda Boag; Sharon Capriotti
2022 Philippa Thomas
2023 Negin Arjomand; Dominic Boffa
2024 Tahlia Hossack
David Mott, Principal Consultant - Senior Archaeologist of Integrated Heritage Services, established this prize in 2016 to recognise and encourage students to follow their passion, especially in Aboriginal heritage management. An alumnus of Flinders University’s Archaeology program, David remembers the unwavering support received from staff and students and credits Flinders with changing the course of his life.
- The value of the prize shall be $250 per year.
- The prize shall be awarded to the enrolled student who achieves the highest mark in ARCH2202 Archaeology of the First Australians or ARCH8410 Archaeology of the First Australians GE.
- If more than one student achieves the same highest mark for the topic, the prize shall be divided evenly amongst them.
- The prize shall be awarded every year the topic is offered.
Recipients
2016 No award
2017 Marc Fairhead
2018 Christina Herd
2019 Julia Atkinson
2020 Marquez Lopez; Juan Alejandro
2023 Iris Jacobs
2024 Amber O’Grady
The James Millar Main Memorial Fund, which supports this prize, was established in September 1984 with donations from colleagues, students and friends to commemorate James Millar Main, Reader in History and a member of the History staff, from 1966 to 1984.
- The value of the prize shall be $600 and shall be awarded annually.
- The prize shall be awarded to the student, completing honours in History, who achieves the highest GPA
- If more than one student achieves the same highest mark, the prize shall be divided evenly amongst them
Recipients
1985 Judith S Jeffrey
1986 Philippa L Fletcher
1987 Leonie M Randall
1988 No award
1989 Daryl J Adair
1990 Julie-Ann Ellis
1991 No award
1992 Christopher J McLean
1993 Robert D Sharp
1994 Carol A Putland
1995 Penelope Gregory
1996 Chiew-Lee Khut
1997 Michael J Foster; Robert Pilgrim
1998 Susie van der Sluys
1999 Raquel Piles; Ruth Donovan
2000 Peter M Provis
2001 James S Anderson
2002 Emma Barritt; Karen Agutter
2003 Evan Smith
2004 Effie Karageorgos
2005 Kirsty R Seidel
2006 Prudence J Mann
2007 Christine Lockwood
2008 Dene Mann
2009 Amanda Norman
2010 Anne Matters
2011 Darryl Burrowes
2012 Chloe Ward
2013 Anthony Nugent
2014 Ella Stewart-Peters
2015 Tim Mansueto; Brodie Nugent
2016 Hastings Jade
2017 Hannah Saxon
2018 Brenton Griffin; Cassandra Schilling
2019 Sarah Binka
2020 Jaslyn Ison; Anna Wilkinson
2021 Alexander O'Kane
2022 Emma Brennan; Harry Meaney
2023 Thomas Rogers
2024 Olivia Ormsby; Thomas Gradisar
The James Millar Main Memorial Fund, which supports this prize, was established in September 1984 with donations from colleagues, students and friends to commemorate James Millar Main, Reader in History and a member of the History staff, from 1966 to 1984.
- The value of the prize shall be $300 and shall be awarded annually.
- The prize shall be awarded to the student, completing the major sequence in History, who achieves the best results in 9 units of level 3 HIST coded topics in the same year.
- If more than one student achieves the same highest mark, the prize shall be divided evenly amongst them
Recipients
1985 Phillip W Dolling
1986 Robin F Haines
1987 David M Vivian
1988 Anne M Gray; Daryl J Adair
1989 John E Morcombe
1990 Marnie E Doig; Marilyn JP McLatchie
1991 Ann J Herraman; Christopher Read
1992 Robert D Sharp
1993 M McInerney
1994 Sandra JA Griffiths; Ruth Jessie Rogers
1995 Martin J Nemeth
1996 Graham J Bate; Michael J Foster
1997 Olga Ruwoldt
1998 Peter Birt; Sally Bennett
1999 Andrew J Cash
2000 Nerida M Hunt
2001 Kate M Hoffmann
2002 Charles P Barnes
2003 Cornelia Fowler
2004 Richard Dolan
2005 David A Hirst
2006 Maxwell I Adams
2007 Grant Loxton
2008 Ann Matters
2009 Pamela Graham
2010 Chloe Ward
2011 Anthony Nugent
2012 Aleksander Pavic
2013 Lauren Aikins
2014 Judith Driscoll
2015 Jennifer Best
2016 Hannah Saxon
2017 Brenton Griffin
2018 Amy Watson
2019 Nephele Buchanan
2020 Harry Meaney
2021 William Mussared; Ainslie McLeod
2022 Olivia Ormsby
2023 Isabella Brady
2024 Shakira Price
- The value of the prize shall be $300 and shall be awarded annually until the funds are exhausted.
- The prize shall be awarded to the student who attains the highest percentage mark in SPAN2202: Intermediate Spanish Part 2, at Flinders University.
- If more than one student achieves the same highest mark, the prize shall be divided equally amongst them.
Recipients
2013 Amelia Rohrlach
2014 Viviana Margarita Gonzalez Gil
2015 Indiana Wishart
2016 Hamdalla Hassan
2017 Thomas Henderson
2018 Laura Marchetti
2019 Cassie Brian
2020 Alexandra Reinhardt
2021 Juan Calderer-Benitez
2022 Sara Tarakji
2023 Sofia Harris-Sanchez
2024 David Duncan
- 1The value of the prize shall be $500 and shall be awarded annually until the funds are exhausted.
- The prize shall be awarded to the student who attains the highest percentage mark in SPAN3202: Upper Intermediate Spanish Part 2, at Flinders University.
- If more than one student achieves the same highest mark, the prize shall be divided equally amongst them.
Recipients
2013 Lidia Alonzo
2014 Amelia Jane Rohrlach
2015 Viviana Gonzalez Gil
2016 Chloe Dunlop
2017 Isabella Stocco Bradley
2018 Thomas Henderson
2019 Laura Marchetti
2020 Cassie Brian; Paola Ricci
2021 Rebecca Wescombe-Down
2022 Kiara Dunbar
2023 Aleksandra Morley; Zoe Thomas
2024 Sofia Harris-Sanchez
- The value of the prize shall be $200 and shall be awarded annually until funds are exhausted.
- The prize shall be awarded to the student who attains the highest aggregate mark in ITAL1201 and ITAL1202, Introductory Italian Parts 1 and 2.
- Only students who have continued their Italian studies by enrolling in second year Italian language topics are eligible.
- If more than one student achieves the same highest mark, the prize shall be divided equally amongst them.
Recipients
2016 Donna Francis
2017 Alexandra Gavrilidis
2018 Rachel Frattini
2019 Sarah Andreucci
2020 Heloise Baker
2021 Natasha Korbut
2022 Rosa Vorrasi
2023 Dean Macri
2024 Namita Lewis
- The Margaret Baker Prize in Italian shall be awarded annually to the student achieving the highest aggregated mark for ITAL3201 and ITAL3202 in the same academic year.
- The value of the prize shall be $500 to be paid from the endowment fund until the prize funds are exhausted.
- If in any year the prize is not awarded or the income from the endowment exceeds the amount of the prize, the value of such prize or excess income shall be added to the capital of the fund.
- If two or more students achieve the same highest mark the prize shall be awarded twice.
Recipients
2019 Sarah Andreucci
2020 Lucy Eaton; Sophie Tait; Marta Palombo
2021 Natasha Korbut
2022 Cecile Moylan
2023 Grace Richter-Gilbert
2024 Natasha Korbut
This prize has been funded by a donation from Silvana Mazzaro in memory of her sister Maria Denison.
- The value of the prize shall be $300 and will be awarded for one year only
- The prize shall be awarded to the student that is enrolled at Flinders University or Adelaide University in an Italian Major.
- Applicants for this prize will be judged on a written 1000 word essay in Italian about planning their career as a language teacher.
- Essay's will be judged by the Italian discipline at Flinders University and submitted to chass.operations@flinders.edu.au
- In the event of two or more students receiving the prize, the prize shall be divided equally between them.
Recipients
2023 Holly George; Isabella Courtney
- The value of the prize shall be $250 and shall be awarded annually until funds are exhausted.
- The prize shall be awarded to the student who attains the highest aggregated mark for ITAL2201 and ITAL2202 in the same academic year.
- If more than one student achieves the same GPA, the prize shall be divided equally amongst them..
Recipients
1994 Marina Pinto
1995 Nicole Kouros
1996 Gabrielle Marafioti
1997 Maria J Zotti
1998 Anne-Marie Morales
1999 Fiona Curnow
2000 Bibi De Pasquale
2001 Robert Andreacchio
2002 Charlotte Smith
2003 Nina O'Connor
2004 Jennifer Haag
2005 Elizabeth J Saccone
2006 Sarah Dichiera
2007 Narelle Johnson
2008 Genevieve Tyson
2009 Raffaele Piccolo
2010 Elisa Rossi
2011 Gabriele Chapman-Smith
2012 Susan Brosnan
2013 Emily Sanders
2014 Michael Barone
2015 Annabelle Paech
2016 Laura Teicher
2017 Liga Livena
2018 No award
2019 No award
2020 Lucy Eaton; Sophie Tait; Marta Palombo
2021 Heloise Baker; Mina Dobrijevic; Samoda Silva
2022 Mina Dobrijevic
2023 Anna-Gloria Trentin
2024 Benjamin Ryan
Flinders alumnus Neale Draper established this prize in 2016 to promote and reward best-practice cultural heritage management for Australian archaeology.
Neale’s 40+ year career as an archaeologist and anthropologist has included serving as Senior Archaeologist of the SA Aboriginal Heritage Branch in the State Government, lecturing full-time at Flinders Archaeology, and establishing a successful Heritage Consulting firm, Neale Draper & Associates, where he is Principal Heritage Consultant. Over the years, Neale has employed and mentored a steady flow of Flinders graduates.
This prize reflects Neale’s core value that it is the professional and ethical duty of archaeologists to conserve and manage cultural heritage in cooperation with their custodians.
- The value of the prize shall be $500.00 and shall be awarded annually.
- The prize shall be awarded to the student with the highest GPA who has completed 36 units (but no more than 36 units) in either the Graduate Diploma in Archaeology and Heritage Management or the Master of Archaeology and Heritage Management.
- If more than one student achieves the same GPA, the prize shall be awarded to a single winner based on averaging their individual topic marks over 36 units.
Recipients
2016 Simon Munt
2017 Jacinta Koolmatrie
2018 Grace Dennis-Toone
2019 Madeline Englezos
2020 Elspbeth Hodgins
2024 Kiara Jodlowski-Tan
This prize was established by members of the University staff and friends in memory of the late Pamela Claudine Bishop who distinguished herself in the School of Language and Literature in 1966.
- The value of the prize shall be $200 and awarded annually until the endowment is exhausted.
- The prize shall be awarded to the student in Spanish who achieves the highest mark in any first-year Spanish topic at Flinders University.
- If more than one student achieves the same highest mark, additional prizes will be awarded.
Recipients
1967 Hilary Lovett
1968 Philip Reuter
1969 Stephen McCarthy
1970 Stephen Pilcher
1971 Laurel A McGowan
1972 Nancy Dixon
1973 Ruth Ginsberg
1974 John H Shepherd
1975 Megan Philpot
1976 Elizabeth A Moriarty
1977 Susan Garforth
1978 Gorel M Rivers
1979 Christine Sickert
1980 Jenny Beach
1981 Pierina CarroliPierina
1982 Shona Grant
1983 Pauline M Robinson
1984 Anthony J Del Fabbro
1985 Joanna E Simpson
1986 Helen F Mysior
1987 Sylvia D Kimpton; Edda Zannelli
1988 Felicity R Adams; Catherine L Pearce
1989 Sarah J Tooth; Mark P Western
1990 Celia J Fisher
1991 Craig F Pett
1992 Antioniette Amadio
1993 Tania Wee-Ling Goh
1994 Wendy Roberts
1995 Susan Wood
1996 Karen Gordon
1997 Ann F Brindley
1998 Jeffrey Navqi
1999 Sally Vidler
2000 Christian Gerlach
2001 Wesley Howard
2002 Anita Ingham
2003 Julie Dillon
2004 Louise Staker
2005 Kate Wheldrake
2006 Amy J Ramminger
2007 Charissa Turner
2008 Maria Trentin
2009 Stacey Cassas
2010 Helen Maclaren
2011 Katie Nimmo
2012 Lucinda Castillo
2013 Nerida Smith
2014 Jake Benjamin Treloar
2015 Rebecca Uphill
2016 Ashlee Oswald
2017 Georgia Baird
2018 Cassie Brian
2019 Claire Woods
2020 Martina Murrell; Tabitha Lekic
2021 Jakub Jurasz
2022 Jose Angel Ramirez Torres
2023 Alia Meyer
2024 Mathilde Carcassonne
Ron and Jaqueline Conyers established this prize in 2000 in memory of their son Richard Conyers, a brilliant graduate student in English who died suddenly while assisting with the Year 12 Conference at Flinders University in 1998.
During his lifetime, Richard amassed a significant book collection that reflected his interests in language, literature, philosophy and art – and his passion for learning in general. The College was honoured to receive this collection in 2024 and establish the Richard Conyers Library for the benefit of students.
- The value of the prize shall be $200.
- The prize shall be awarded for an English Honours thesis with the highest agreed mark.
- To be eligible, the student must achieve High Distinction.
- If more than one student achieves the same highest mark, the prize will be divided equally among them.
Recipients
2000 Natalie Walters
2001 Tully Barnett
2002 Desiree Prideaux
2003 Peter Manthorpe
2004 Katie Cavanagh
2005 Rita Yazdani
2006 Meg Madden
2007 Katrina Finlayson
2008 Hannah Kent
2009 Amanda Williams
2010 David Olds
2011 Melanie Hocking
2012 Pamela Kelly
2013 Sean Haylock
2014 Amy Mead
2015 Jess Miller
2016 Rowena Edwards
2017 Jennifer Hekmeijer
2018 Cassandra Schilling
2019 Eloise Quinn-Valentine
2020 Georgina Banfield
2021 Lise Van Konkelenberg
2022 Jessica Elton
2023 Liam Rogers-Murphy
2024 Isabella Brady
- The value of the prize shall be $250, and shall be awarded annually.
- The prize shall be awarded to the student enrolled in the Bachelor of Archaeology with the highest mark in the core topic, ARCH3110: Archaeological Field Methods.
- In the event that more than one student achieves the same mark, each student will receive a $250 prize.
Recipients
2013 Kirsten Forkert
2014 Lauren Bryant
2015 Ursula Artym; Calvin Logan
2016 Jenna Walsh
2017 Marc Fairhead
2018 Christina Herd
2019 Bruce Funnell
2020 No award
2024 No award
This prize was established in 2018 by Associate Professor William (Bill) Richardson to recognise exceptional student performance in the Spanish major.
As one of the first appointees to the discipline in 1966, Associate Professor Richardson helped to establish the Spanish curriculum at Flinders University. He retired in 1987 and continues to maintain a close association with the university. (Read more about Associate Professor Richardson and the establishment of this prize here.
- The value of the prize shall be $225. This value shall be reviewed every five years and, subject to the financial report, may be adjusted on the recommendation of the academic staff in Spanish.
- The prize shall be awarded to the most meritorious student successfully completing the Spanish major, having regard to both the student's overall performance and improvement.
- The Examinations Board, on the recommendation of the academic staff in Spanish, shall determine the eligibility and ranking of the candidates for the prize, which shall be awarded annually unless, in the opinion of the Examinations Board, there is no student of sufficient merit.
- Should more than one student be considered worthy, the Examinations Board will recommend that the prize be shared equally amongst those students.
Recipients
2018 Ashlee Tayla Oswald
2019 No award
2020 No award
2021 Cailan De Maria
2022 No award
2023 Alexandra Reinhardt
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