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 2025 are now open!
We are excited to announce the search is on for the 2025 MGA Supervisor of the Year.
Do you have the best research supervisor at Monash University? Do they go above and beyond to support you and encourage your success?
Show your appreciation by nominating them for the 2025 MGA Supervisor of the Year Award!
The award will go to one nominated supervisor who has created the most supportive, stimulating and inspirational research environment for their graduate research students this year.
Just like last year, we will once again present a Special Commendation Award in 2025. We receive so many nominations each year for outstanding supervisors that we felt it was only necessary to widen the pool of winners.
All nomination forms must be submitted using the Google Form provided below. Nominations can be made by an individual student or by a group of students.
Nominations close: 5:00pm on Monday, 6 October 2025
To access and complete the nomination form below, you must be signed in with your Monash student account (e.g. @student.monash.edu OR @monash.edu email)
SUBMIT SOTY NOMINATION
MGA Supervisor of the Year Hall of Fame
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.