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.
The ARDC continues to sponsor a wide range of research software awards for 2024.
Award Now Open
The Statistical Society of Australia (SSA) Bill Venables Award is for new developers of open source software for data analytics, sponsored by the ARDC.
Entry deadline
Saturday 27 April 2024
Who should apply
New developers of open source software for data analytics
Previous winners
- 2023:
- Associate Professor Andrew Zammit-Mangion and Matthew Sainsbury-Dale (winners)
- predictNMB team (runner-up)
- 2022: Dr Lydia Lucchesi and Sam Nelson and the Vizumap team
Further information
Learn more about this award on the SSA website.
Awards Opening Soon
This award from the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society (ABACBS), sponsored by the ARDC, recognises an outstanding early- and mid-career researcher (EMCR) bioinformatics software developer from the Australian community with a view to promoting further efforts to develop and share bioinformatics methodologies.
Entry opening
Second half of 2024
Who should apply
Early and mid-career developers of bioinformatics software
Previous winners
- 2023: Dr Ryan Wick
- 2022: Dr Michael Roach
Further information
Learn more about this award on the ABACBS website.
This award from Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society (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.
Entry opening
Second half of 2024
Who should apply
Maintainers of bioinformatics software
Previous winners
- 2023: Dr Juan Nunez-Iglesias (read our 2022 interview with him)
- 2022: Catherine Bromhead
Further information
Learn more about this award on the ABACBS website.
Awards to Be Announced
The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) has an Emerging Leaders in Astronomy Software Development Prize, sponsored by the ARDC, for early-career researchers (ECRs) who have produced or contributed to new astronomy software.
Previous winner
- 2023: Dr Manodeep Sinha
Further information
Learn more about this award on the ASA website.
The Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) has an ARDC-sponsored award for New Developers of Open Source Software in Ecology.
Previous winners
- 2023: Dr Roozbeh Valavi
- 2022: Dr Fonti Kar
Further information
Learn more about this award on the ESA website.
Sponsored and presented by the ARDC, the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software is awarded for the development, maintenance or extension of software that has enabled significant new scientific research.
Previous winners
Further information
Learn more about this award on the Australian Museum website.
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