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This year's awards were announced by Professor Les Field, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Professor Richard Henry, Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education & Quality Improvement). They aim to provide research support to academics, enabling them to free up time to focus their energies on developing an innovative teaching program. As part of the award, the winners will be appointing either a post-doctoral fellow or research assistant to help with their research work.

"The Teaching and Research awards contribute in a small way to allowing some of our brightest young researchers to balance their enthusiasm for teaching and their drive for research", said Professor Les Field.

The award is valued at $80,000 per annum running for two years from Session One 2006. Dr Tedla will be focusing on the promotion of student learning using an online self-assessment for a course in musculoskeletal disease.