The Ken Provins Award is awarded annually for the best paper presented during the Society’s Annual Conference for the year of the Award.
- Awarded to individual or joint authorship, but not for a keynote speaker.
- The Award is based on both the written paper and the oral presentation at the conference.
- The Award is in the form of a Certificate for each author.
Past recipients
- 2000 Robin Burgess-Limerick
- 2001 Stephen Ward
- 2002 Leon Straker, Andrew Briggs and Alison Greig
- 2003 Jennifer Long and Carmen Sui
- 2004 Mark Hennessy
- 2005 Not awarded
- 2006 Not awarded
- 2007 Sonia Ranelli, Leon Straker and Anne Smith
- 2008 Melissa Baysari, Carlo Caponeccia and Andrew S McIntosh
- 2009 Not awarded
- 2010 Elise Crawford, Yvonne Toft and Ryan L Kift
- 2011 Daisy Veitch, Rachel Dawson, Harry Owen and Christopher Leigh
- 2012 Not awarded
- 2013 Lily Hirsch
- 2014 Not awarded
- 2015 Not awarded
- 2016 Not awarded
- 2017 Anjum Naweed and Janine Chapman
- 2018 Peter Schumacher
- 2019 Clare Dallat
- 2020 no conference
- 2021 not awarded
- 2022 Richard Sutherland
- 2023 – TBA
- 2024 Nicole Liddell
- 2025 Amanda Dominello
About Ken Provins (1923-2013)
Ken Provins was educated at Wimbledon C.S., Brasenose College, Oxford in BA (Hons, Psychology & Physiology), MA (Oxon), and PhD (Reading). He completed War Service 1942-1946 in the Royal Air Force as a Pilot and Flying Instructor.
Ken was a member of the Physiological Research Unit at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough in 1949-1952, and member of the Medical Research Unit at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough in 1952-1962.
He was a Reader in Psychology at University of Adelaide in 1962-1968, then a Professor of Psychology at the Australian National University in 1968-1975. Ken was then the
Deputy Vice-chancellor at University of Adelaide in 1975-1980, and University Professor until his retirement in 1983. He was appointed as an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at University of Adelaide (Emeritus Professor) until moving to Brisbane in 1989. Ken then worked as an Honorary Research Consultant at University of Queensland in 1990-1999.
Ken was the organiser for the first Ergonomics Conference in Adelaide in 1964 and Secretary of the Steering Committee leading to the formation of the Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand in 1966. He was elected to be one of the first four Fellows of the Society and served as the President in 1968-1970.