ARDC-Sponsored Awards and Prizes
The ARDC is proud to sponsor awards for research software and research software engineers in all stages of their careers. The goal of the awards is to strengthen the recognition of research software and those who develop and maintain it as being vital to modern research.
Awards Now Open for Application
The Ecological Society of Australia has an ARDC-sponsored award for New Developers of Open Source Software in Ecology, which is running for the second year.
Learn about the 2022 winner, Dr Fonti Kar.
- Entries close: 31 March 2023
- Who should apply: new software developers from academia, industry or government working on developing open-source software for Ecology
Entries are now open for the 2023 Australian Research Data Commons Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software.
Read our article about the prize.
- Entries close: 14 April 2023
- Who should apply: developers and maintainers of research software
Entries are now open for the 2023 Statistical Society of Australia (SSA) Bill Venables Award for new developers of open-source software for data analytics, sponsored by the ARDC.
Learn about the 2022 winners, Dr Lydia Lucchesi and Sam Nelson and the Vizumap team.
- Entries close: 22 April 2023
- Who should apply: new developers of open-source software for data analytics
Awards to Be Announced
The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) has launched the Emerging Leaders in Astronomy Software Development Prize, sponsored by the ARDC, for developers and maintainers of research software.
The 2023 winner will be announced soon.
Learn more about this award on the ASA website.
Awards Opening Soon
This award from the Australian Bioinformatics And Computational Biology Society (ABACBS), sponsored by the ARDC, recognises an outstanding EMCR bioinformatics software developer from the Australian community with a view to promoting further efforts to develop and share bioinformatics methodologies.
Learn about the 2022 winner, Dr Michael Roach.
- Entries opening: second half of 2023
- Who should apply: early and mid-career developers of bioinformatics software
For more information about the award, visit the ABACBS website.
This award from ABACBS recognises bioinformaticians from the Australian community who provide outstanding levels of support and maintenance for widely used bioinformatics software. This award aims to promote efforts amongst our community members to document, maintain and support high-quality bioinformatics software.
- Entries opening: second half of 2023
- Who should apply: maintainers of bioinformatics software
Learn more about this award on the ABACBS website.
Start planning your submission now!
Are you a member of a scholarly society that would benefit from an ARDC-supported award for research software? Please get in touch.
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