The MGA Supervisor of the Year Award, established in 1992, was created to acknowledge excellence in research supervision practice.
The award was featured in peer-reviewed journal Innovations in Education and Teaching International where it was recognised as the longest running award of its kind, putting Monash University and Australia ahead of the UK with regards to student-led supervisor awards.
The MGA award is truly a decision of the graduate community.
Supervisors are nominated by their graduate students and entries are judged by an independent subcommittee of graduates drawn from the MGA Executive Committee.
We announce the winner at an exclusive MGA award ceremony each year (Nov/Dec), with the exact time and date of the presentation to be determined by the availability of the nominator and winning supervisor. The Supervisor of the Year will receive a frame certificate, is permanently listed on the MGA Supervisor of the Year Hall of Fame (see below) and will be feature in an article in the Monash Insider magazine.
Nominations for 2026 will open later in the year.
Read about the highlights from the 2025 Supervisor of the Year Award.
MGA Supervisor of the Year Hall of Fame
2025
Dr YI-SHAN TSAI
Faculty of Information Technology
DR LYNETTE PRETORIUS (Special Commendation Award)
Faculty of Education
2024
PROF JAKOB HOHWY
Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies
DR KIM DANG (Special Commendation Award)
School of Curriculum Teaching and Inclusive Education
2023
A/PROF CORNELIA LANDERSDORFER
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
2022
DR LIANG LI
School of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education
2021
DR BEI BEI
Sleep and Mental Health Laboratory, Facult of Medicine, Nursing and
Health Sciences
2020
A/PROF STEVEN ROBERTS
School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts
2019
A/PROF REBECCA WICKES
Criminology, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts
2018
A/PROF ADRIAN CARTER
School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health
Sciences
2017
A/PROF JANE SOUTHCOTT
Faculty of Education
2016
DR LOUISA WILLOUGHBY
School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of
Arts
2015
DR HELEN FORBES-MEWETT
School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts
For the list of award winners pre-2015, please contact
mga@monash.edu.