ANNIE GOLDSON HONOURED IN RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARDS

Dr Annie Goldson was honoured at the University of Auckland’s Research Excellence Awards in May 2015 for her documentary Brother Number One. Here is the press release from the University of Auckland. 

Professor Annie Goldson of Media, Film and Television and Professor Simon Holdaway of Anthropology received University of Auckland Research Excellence Awards at a recent ceremony at Old Government House. 

The University of Auckland’s Research Excellence Awards are held each year to celebrate the quality of the University’s research and the exceptional talents of its top researchers. 

Dean of Arts Professor Robert Greenberg said that attaining two of these prestigious awards was an excellent result for the Faculty. The awards recognise not only Annie and Simon’s standing amongst their academic peers, but also the impact of their research beyond academia. 

Annie was unable to attend the ceremony due to a hectic international filming schedule across Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. She said that she was honoured to be selected, given the knowledge that the research of all of her peers was stellar, and that she appreciated how tough the awards must be to judge, given the diversity of the research. 

She was recognised for her documentary Brother Number One, which explores genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge through the story of Rob Hamill’s quest for justice for his brother Kerry Hamill, who was tortured and killed after inadvertently sailing into Cambodian waters.