Meet the inaugural Te Rau Hiringa award winners

Perseverance, energy and determination are three of the qualities demonstrated by the winners of the inaugural Te Rau Hiringa Professional Staff Research Excellence Awards.

The new awards have two categories.

Mark Hurdley, research manager, international, and Casper Hitchins, research adviser, international, are the winners of the first Catalysing Research Excellence Award for their work leading Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland’s engagement with Horizon Europe, the world’s largest research and innovation programme.

The inaugural Sustaining Research Excellence Award was made to Linley Nisbet, a senior technical officer at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, for more than 30 years of service working with researchers and students on pre-clinical studies that respond to key questions in physiology and have led to new medical technologies.