The Sidney Prize honorarium of $5,000 is given every month to journalists who excel at investigative reporting and deep storytelling on behalf of social justice. This prize recognizes those exhibiting superior reportorial standards, narrative skill and impactful social justice activism.
Professor Sidney Thomas was a pioneering scholar of art history who made significant strides toward our understanding of its nature. As founding editor of landmark publication The Nature of Art and author of numerous other works related to art history, Professor Thomas’ family and Foundation honor his memory by awarding annual scholarships for undergraduate students studying this discipline.
Sidney Prize
The University of Sydney is delighted to offer a range of literary prizes that recognize outstanding writing across different disciplines. Some prizes are administered by our faculties while others are judged externally and overseen by industry experts. Entries from all formats – short stories, poetry, plays and essays will all be judged against an objective criteria by an esteemed panel of industry judges, with winners and two runners-up selected based on merit alone – current University of Sydney students being eligible for consideration.
Each year, the university awards several prestigious student prizes to recognize outstanding achievements of our students. These awards include: Sir William Lawrence Bray Memorial Scholarship; Sydney Film Festival GIO Audience Award and Rouben Mamoulian Award for emerging Australian short filmmakers.
As well as conducting world-class research, our university is also dedicated to supporting young people to realize their full potential by offering scholarships and awards that help students realize their academic dreams and beyond. These awards are provided through generous alumni donations as well as private donations from donors outside our walls.
Since its founding, the university has remained committed to supporting and inspiring women engineers. To celebrate this effort, The Sidney Black Memorial Engineering Award was created as a way of honoring one graduate’s belief that women were limited only by their imaginations. UHI engineering scholarships are open to female, graduating engineering students who successfully pass their BEng on any of our engineering programmes, and have demonstrated excellence in either research or practical aspects of engineering. Each scholarship award carries a prize value of PS500. Applications will be accepted between March 2024 and October 2024 on the Creative Writing Awards website, though submissions not meeting minimum standards may result in no prize being awarded. Winners are announced during a ceremony held each May to commemorate these achievements, at which all prize recipients must submit a written release form before receiving their prize money; please see terms and conditions for more information.