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This award is an honorary title bestowed on suitable persons who have provided distinguished service to the humanities-aronui. It is an award that recognises contributory and dedicated service to the humanities-aronui over a sustained period.
This service is demonstrated by one or more of the following: a record of service to a national organisation or agency (this can include a professional career in an appropriate institution that does not require research outputs); significant contributions to public policy in the area of humanities-aronui; and sustained public recognition or promotion of the humanities-aronui.
For more details about the awarded Fellows and their integration into the Royal Society of New Zealand, click here.
This prize was offered annually as the result of a gift. It was given to the top student in English Literature Honours at Victoria University of Wellington.
The Humanities Award Secondary School Writing Competion
Previously Sponsored by the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO
Royal Society of New Zealand
Te Whāinga Aronui The Council for the Humanities
Humanities knowledge is about finding answers to the questions,
The Humanities Award was set up for Year 12 and 13 secondary school students with award winning essays each receiving $1,500.
The topic for the writing competition in 2007 was: “Being a New Zealander ….”
The 2007 judges were writer and comedienne Jo Randerson, and Professor John Drummond, Associate Dean of Humanities Division, University of Otago. The winners were announced at a special assembly at Otago Girls High School on 9 October.
The 2007 winners were:
Phoebe Harrop, New Plymouth Girls High School,
The New New Zealander - Life in the 21st Century
and Susan Smirk, Otago Girls High School,
Being a New Zealander: Letters From Our Land
Highly commended were essays by:
Anna Wu, Epsom Girls Grammar,
Being a New Zealander... and the accidental search of the humanities
and Jess Fiebig, Papanui High School,
Being a New Zealander