The university offers several prizes for written works including essays, poems and plays written for submission under pseudonym. These awards are offered through its Literary Prizes programme that is funded through endowments dating back to the early 20th century. Writers submitting work must do so anonymously.
The Sir Sidney Hampton Lectures are presented annually by the Society for the Study of Australian History to commemorate Sir William Hampton, former Dean of Sydney University, as well as promote research into Australia’s social, political and economic history. Held annually in Sydney city centre.
Every year, the University of Sydney awards five prestigious academic scholarships. One such prize is the Albert C Outler Prize – this accolade honors books published during the prior calendar year that illuminate global Christianity or issues surrounding Christian unity or disunity (doctrinal, cultural or institutional), or interactions between Christianity and other religions.
Sidney University can boast a remarkable and unexpected history that spans nearly 200 years, producing individuals who have made their mark on politics, music, literature and science – through an extraordinary series of coincidences. Sidney produced such figures as Lord Salisbury, William Gladstone and Herbert Asquith who went on to fame; musicians like Edward Elgar and Arthur Sullivan; physicists F H Neville and E H Griffiths as well as top journalists like Frank Owen, Andrew Rawnsley Gordon Newton in London Times as well as Michael Curtis who risked his life to cover Suez Crisis coverage.
Sidney College was unique in having the Taylor Lectureship for Mathematics, which enhanced its reputation in this field. When religious affiliation began to diminish, Sidney needed to find ways of adapting to science and mathematics’ growing importance in society.
Sir Frederick Sidney, then-Chancellor of the University, initiated this award in 1929. Since then, it has become one of the hallmarks of UQ’s commitment to supporting undergraduate students with financial need.
The Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, is open to undergraduate writers writing in English. Our judges Patrick Lenton, Alice Bishop and Sara Saleh selected one winning entry from an eight-piece shortlist and two runners-up stories; Overland will publish both pieces – we thank our judges for their hard work in maintaining an impartial blind judging process! We thank them too for the wonderful stories they submitted – you won’t see this winner anywhere else but online! Overland would like to thank them too for keeping our blind judging process intact! Overland will publish both winning story online as soon as we possibly can! We thank our judges for all their hard work in maintaining integrity of blind judging process!