2025 NZSEE Awards are now Open!
We invite applications for the prestigious NZSEE annual awards. Below, you’ll find a summary of each award along with links to the detailed criteria.
This year, we’ve made some updates, including increasing the prize value for the Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake / NZSEE Ivan Skinner Award and the NZSEE / QuakeCoRE Emerging Women Leaders in Earthquake Engineering Award.
In general, the awards are all independent, and applicants may be nominated to more than one award, provided they qualify for each award.
Applicants for the Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake / NZSEE Ivan Skinner Award and NZSEE / QuakeCoRE Emerging Women Leaders in Earthquake Engineering Award are encouraged to evaluate their eligibility for both awards. Submissions can be made for both awards, and this is encouraged if eligibility allows. However, separate submissions are required, and each submission must be tailored to meet the relevant award criteria.
Please submit your applications directly to the Executive Officer at exec@nzsee.org.nz.
Awards include:
Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake / NZSEE Ivan Skinner Award
The Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake / NZSEE Ivan Skinner Award is open to practitioners and researchers contributing to reducing the impacts of earthquakes on New Zealand communities, and individuals from disciplines beyond engineering who are making significant contributions to earthquake impact reduction in New Zealand.
The Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake / NZSEE Ivan Skinner Award includes a prize of $15,000.
For more information and application details, please click here.
Applications close Tuesday, 25 February 2025, with no extensions beyond this final deadline.
NZSEE / QuakeCoRE Emerging Women Leaders in Earthquake Engineering Award
The NZSEE / QuakeCoRE Emerging Women Leaders in Earthquake Engineering Award recognises and celebrates younger women from engineering practice and/or academia who demonstrate emerging leadership in the field of earthquake engineering.
This award aims to foster greater participation of women in leadership roles within the discipline. Recipients are awarded a $15,000 prize to support their career development and goals in earthquake engineering.
For more information and for details on how to apply please click here.
Applications close Tuesday, 25 February 2025, with no extensions beyond this final deadline.
Otto Glogau Award
This annual award recognises the author(s) of the best paper published in the NZSEE Bulletin during the three years leading up to 31 December of the year preceding the award (31 December 2024). Eligibility is open to all authors, members or non-members of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, whose papers were published in the Bulletin within the specified timeframe.
Nominations for papers meeting the eligibility can include self-nomination. The awards committee will also consider other papers published during the stated period.
The award comprises $2,000, which may be used to purchase books or support other activities that advance earthquake engineering initiatives.
For more information and details on how to nominate an eligible Bulletin paper, click here.
Applications close Tuesday, 25 February 2025, with no extensions beyond this final deadline.
NZSEE Research Scholarship
The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering awards an annual Research Scholarship to support students undertaking research projects in earthquake engineering at New Zealand universities and research institutes.
The scholarship objective is to promote research in earthquake engineering and encourage students of high ability to pursue advanced studies in earthquake engineering.
The 2025 NZSEE Scholarship will have a value of $10,000.
For more information and for details on how to apply please click here.
Applications close Tuesday, 25 February 2025, with no extensions beyond this final deadline.
John Hollings Seismic Resilience in Practice Award
The John Hollings Seismic Resilience in Practice Award recognises case study projects from practice that have the objective of providing enhanced seismic resilience in an earthquake. Submitted projects may be new builds or seismic retrofits and can be a building, structure, or infrastructure.
For more information and details on how to apply please click here.
Applications close Friday, 7 March 2025, with no extensions beyond this final deadline.
Note
No award may be given for any particular category in any year at the discretion of NZSEE and the Awards Committee. The decisions of the judges are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
