Derek H.T. Walker's Prizes

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Prizes and Awards

2008 Winner of the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence for the Outstanding Reviewer Award for work on Construction Innovation: Information Process Management 2007 volume.

2008 Highly Commended Award Winner at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2008 for the paper :
Maqsood T., Walker D.H.T., and Finegan, A. D. (2007), ‘Facilitating Knowledge Pull to Deliver Innovation through Knowledge Management: A Case Study’, Engineering Construction and Architectural Management, UK, 14, 94-109

RMIT is a university with about 40,000 students. It has an academic model of 3 ‘portfolios’ or kind of super faculties one for Business Studies, One for Design and Social Context and a third for Science Engineering and Technology. Each year they have publications prize to award recognition for the academic staff who has published the most peer-reviewed publications in the year. I have won the award for the last three years in succession for the Business Portfolio.

2006: RMIT Publications Award for most refereed publications in the Business Portfolio (super-faculty) 3rd time!

2005: RMIT Publications Award for most refereed publications in the Business Portfolio (super-faculty) 2nd time

2004: RMIT Publications Award for most refereed publications in the Business Portfolio (super-faculty) 1st time

2003: RMIT Research innovation award (Business portfolio)

Walker D.H.T. and Loosemore M.(2003), ' Flexible Problem Solving in Construction Projects on the National Museum of Australia Project’, Team Performance Management, MCB University Press. UK, 9, (1), 5-15. (Selected by the editor and editorial team as the winning paper for the Literati Award for the 2003 volume)

Walker D.H.T. and Keniger M. (2002).'Quality Management in Construction – An Innovative Advance Using a Project Alliancing Approach ', Proceedings of 7th ICIT Conference, April 2002,Melbourne, Australia, CD-ROM paper 9.1 Best Paper in Stream

Steane P.D. and Walker D.H.T. (2000).'Partnerships as Mechanisms of Change in Public Management Reform', Proceedings of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, August 6th - 11th, 2000, Kapalua, Island of Maui, Hawaii, (CD-ROM) [Best Paper award for Public Policy track]

Professional bodies have recognised my contribution. I was invited to accept the membership grade of 'fellow' in the Australian Institute of Building and earlier in my career in 1978 I won a Certificate of Commendation from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Ian Murray Leslie Award for my paper entitled 'A Canadian Approach to Cost Control and Project Management'. 

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