Awards and Assessment Criteria

Find out more about the poster presentations and assessment criteria.

Presentation criteria

Students are required to stand at their own poster for the duration of the presentation session to which they have been allocated, a proxy is not permitted and students must present in person. If you are not at your poster during the allocated session time, your poster will not be assessed and you will not be eligible for a prize.

Presentation structure 

You will be given five minutes to present your poster, with an additional two to three minutes of Q&A time. You will be assessed by a group of two to three assessors. It is important to highlight the essential parts of your poster and use clear, concise language.

Poster presentation assessment criteria

Poster presentations will be assessed according to the criteria below, with a score out of 10 provided for each category:

  • Quality and clarity of presentation and poster
  • Scientific merit
  • Quality of data/results/significance
  • General understanding and ability to answer questions  
  • Overall poster rating

2025 Prize winners

The prizes for the 2025 Florey Postgraduate Research Conference are as per below:

Prize Winner School
Executive Dean of the Faculty  Mitchell Nicmanis School of Psychology
The Florey Medical Research Foundation (Basic)

Cate Cheney

Uyen Pham

Adelaide Medical School

School of Biomedicine

The Florey Medical Research Foundation (Applied)

Mitchell Nicmanis

Matthew Summers

School of Psychology

Adelaide Medical School

Northern Communities Health & Research Foundation John Henrik Johansson Adelaide Medical School
School of Biomedicine Shreetha Ramasubramanian School of Biomedicine
Adelaide Medical School Luke Quinlan Adelaide Medical School
School of Psychology Georgina Edwards School of Psychology
School of Public Health Sabrina Guensche School of Public Health
SAiGENCI Anxuan Han SAiGENCI
School of Allied Health Science and Practice Cameron Stott School of Allied Health Science and Practice
Adelaide Dental School Thao Liang Chiam Adelaide Dental School
Adelaide Nursing School Ira Rahmawati Adelaide Nursing School
Robinson Research Institute Danielle Bailey Robinson Research Institute
Best First Year Poster Chanodya Ranwala School of Biomedicine
Faculty Student Door Prize Parivash Ghorbaninejad Adelaide Medical School

2025 Florey Conference Prizes & Criteria List