The sidney prize is a monthly award that honours outstanding pieces of journalism that expose social and economic injustice. The prize was founded in memory of the late Associate Professor Anne Dunn, a journalist, media academic and broadcaster who loved working with students. Nominations are invited for work that has been published in the previous month.

The winning piece is chosen by a panel of judges, including New York Times columnist David Brooks, and is announced on the last Wednesday of each month. It may be a story that was published online, in print or on television. Nominations can be made for one’s own work, or for other people’s writing. The winner will receive a $500 honorarium and a certificate designed by Edward Sorel.

We have a wide range of literary prizes that recognise the work of undergraduate students. Each requires an application and the submission of a written work on a specified topic. The work can be an essay, poem or a short story. It should be submitted under a pseudonym, and copyright must be released.

The winner of the 2023 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize is Annie Zhang, whose story ‘Who Rattles the Night?’ explores a couple moving into a haunted house. The shortlist was announced earlier this year and includes the Overland Fiction Prize winner, ‘A Map of Underneath’ by Madeleine Rebbechi and the WestWords Western Sydney Emerging Writer Fellow, ‘Whack-a-Mole’ by Sheila Ngoc Pham.

Enrolled in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, be undertaking a major in Greek Honours and have completed 12 credit points of 3000-level Latin units of study. The scholarship is funded by the Sydney University Greek Society to celebrate the longstanding commitment of the Department of Modern Greek and Latin to its students.

Be a current student enrolled in the Master of Clinical Psychology (MCP) or Master of Clinical Psychology and Doctor of Philosophy (MCP/PhD) at the University of Sydney. The scholarship has a value of $1,200 per annum and will be paid as a one-off payment.

Completed a thesis in the field of psychology for the previous calendar year. The prize is supported by the Trustees of the late Dr Ian Black.

The Sidney Cox Memorial Prize is awarded for that piece of undergraduate writing which most nearly meets the high standards of originality and integrity which Sir Sidney set for his teaching and in his book, Indirections for Those Who Want to Write.

Each year the Sydney Peace Foundation honours a nominee who has promoted “peace with justice” and human rights. This year’s winner is the Black Lives Matter movement, which was founded in the US by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi following the acquittal of George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin.

Awarded to the best M.A. History thesis completed during the preceding calendar year. The prize is funded by a gift from the family of Mr John W. Hillman to honour his love for the study of Australia’s maritime history.