MSE academics receive awards for contributions to geomatics

Professor Stephan Winter has received the Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (Victoria) for Educational Development at this year's Victorian Surveying and Spatial Summit in recognition of his leadership of the discipline and his contribution to geomatics education at the University of Melbourne.

Dr Kate Rickersey was honoured at the same event for her work in geomatics at the University with this year’s Thornton Smith Medal. The Thornton Smith Medal is awarded every year to a graduate of the geomatics discipline who is considered to have made an outstanding contribution to the engineering profession in the field of Geomatics.

The medal is in commemoration of James Thornton-Smith, the foundation head of the former Department of Surveying, who was instrumental in the development and introduction of the course program of what has become today Spatial Engineering and Spatial Information Technology.

Dr Rickersey is passionate about helping improve the lives of people and combined her University of Melbourne degrees in geomatic engineering and arts to pursue an international development career focusing on land administration and governance.  is the Managing Director of Land Equity International, a consulting firm providing land administration solutions from policy to practice around the globe, and spent four years in Laos leading the Mekong Region Land Governance project to tackle issues of smallholder tenure security across four Mekong countries.