Milner Interdisciplinary Award
About the Award
The RSNSW Milner Interdisciplinary Award was established by the Council in 202 to reflect the full scope of the Society’s values.
This award recognises distinguished research that spans disciplines, conducted mainly in New South Wales. Recipients may be resident in Australia or elsewhere. The RSNSW Milner Interdisciplinary Award honours the life and work of C.J. Milner (1912-1998), Professor of Applied Physics and Optometry at the University of New South Wales (1952-1978), and of his parents, S.R. Milner FRS (1875-1957) and W.E. Milner MSc (1874-1966), 1851 Exhibitioners at Bristol College, University of London. Council established this Award in 2023 to reflect the full scope of the Society’s founding values with generous support from Dr Jessica Milner Davis FRSN.
RSNSW Milner Interdisciplinary Award 2024
The winner of the RSNSW Milner Interdisciplinary Award is Professor Katherine Boydell FASSA of the Black Dog Institute and UNSW Sydney.
Katherine Boydell, from the Black Dog Institute and the UNSW Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health, is an internationally recognised leader in qualitative inquiry and arts-based knowledge translation in mental health and social care. She has a long-standing, successful history in the development of innovative methodological approaches to create knowledge and translate empirical research using arts-based methods. As the founder and lead of the award-winning Arts-based Knowledge Translation Lab, she has developed a coordinated strategy to transform consumer participation in mental health research, drawing on the arts to communicate public awareness of mental health, decreasing stigma, expanding the research base and creating global partnerships in innovative, whole-of-community approaches to mental health and well-being.
List of Past Recipients of the RSNSW Milner Interdisciplinary Award
| Year | Recipient |
| 2024 | Katherine Boydell |