Honors / Awards

• Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-2025) - AUD $236,838

• Certificate of Top Cited Article Recognition 2022-2023

[Recognised for publishing article entitled “Petrol prices and obesity” which was 1 of the top 10 most cited papers published in Health Economics by Wiley Publishers between 1 Jan 2022 – 31 Dec 2023].

• Mollie-Holman Award [Gold medal] from Monash University recognising the Best PhD thesis for the Faculty of Business and Economics in 2020.

• Monash University Postgraduate Publications Award (2020)

• Awarded ‘Poster Prize’ for the paper ‘The Quintessential Chinese Dream’? Homeownership and the subjective wellbeing of China’s next generation’ at Conference on Randomised Controlled Trials, Monash University. (2019)

• Awarded ‘Best paper’ prize for the paper ‘Petrol prices and Subjective wellbeing’ at Monash Business School’s 2nd Doctoral Colloquium, Monash University. (2019)

• Unit Prize for BEX6650 [Research topics in advanced microeconomics] (2018), Monash Business School Awards Nights, Monash University. (2018)

• Certificate of Recognition for Research Publication in a high quality journal, Annual Research Awards Night, The University of the South Pacific. (2017 & 2015)

• Best Debator Award, Faculty Inter-school debate series, The University of the South Pacific. (2011)

• Best Mentor Award, Student Learning support, The University of the South Pacific. (2011)

Teaching Recognition

• Purple letter for teaching commendation: For overall student unit satisfaction score of 4.46 out of 5 in ECC1100 Principles of Microeconomics at the Clayton campus in Semester 2, 2020.

• Purple letter for teaching commendation: For overall student unit satisfaction score of 4.74 out of 5 in ECC1000 Principles of Microeconomics at the Clayton campus in Semester 2, 2020.

• Purple letter for teaching commendation: For overall student unit satisfaction score of 4.75 out of 5 in ECC1000 Principles of Microeconomics at the Clayton campus in Semester 1, 2020.

Grants / Scholarship

• Monash-Warwick Alliance PhD Travel Grant (2020)

• Monash University Department of Economics Competitive Travel Grant to attend 32nd PhD Conference in Economics and Business, Australian National University, Canberra (2019).

• Monash University Competitive Travel Grant to attend Doctoral Colloquium, Monash University Malaysia (2019). 

• Monash University CDES Competitive Travel Grant to attend Monash Business School Workshop on Sustainable Development, Monash University Prato Centre, Italy (2019). 

• Monash Graduate Scholarship, Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Monash Economics Departmental Scholarship. (2017-2020)

• Oceania Development Network (ODN) Young Researcher Travel grant, 12th Global Development Network Conference, Asian Development Bank, Manila ( 2013) 

• Graduate Assistant scholarship, The University of the South Pacific. (2012-2013)

• Public Service Commission scholarship, Fiji Government. (2009-2011)