Professor Martin Westwell

In October 2018 the Australian Council for Education Leaders (ACEL, the largest professional association in the education sector in Australia) presented me with their Gold Medal for the Most Outstanding Contribution to the study and practice of educational leadership in Australia. In the award citation, the ACEL noted that my work “has influenced the way students in this century can and will learn.” “He is recognized for his work as a leading thinker, researcher and presenter in the science and neuroscience of learning itself and his work has influenced curriculum design, pedagogy and assessment at a national and international level.”

Earlier in 2018 I was presented with the Alby Jones Gold Medal Award given for an “inspirational and influential [South Australian] leader who has demonstrated excellence in education, is highly regarded by the broader community and has demonstrated integrity and achievement in the areas of social justice, equity, democracy and human rights.”

International Baccalaureate Schools-Australasia have named me their “Annual Speaker” for 2017. I t.oured the region with lectures on “Changing challenge: using creativity for disposition and differentiation.”

In 2008, I was the Australian Council for Educational Leadership Travelling Scholar, with a lecture series on the science of learning.

In 2006, I was shortlisted for the Parliamentary Science Writer of the Year award given by the British Association of Science Writers for “those who have tackled important scientific issues, and whose written ororalcontributiontoParliamentarybusinesshassetthehigheststandardsintermsofaccuracy,insight, awareness andinnovation.”

I was presented with the 2001 Dorothy Hodgkin “Science & Society Award” by the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

In 1999, I was named the by The Times newspaper “Scientist of the New Century” - an award only given in 1999 & 2000 to a promising scientist under 40 years.