Announced at the 2025 AVETRA Conference:

Ray Barker Award: 
Don Zoellner: For Distinguished Service to VET Research 2025

Journal Article Of the Year:  
Permission to teach VET: Enabling a vicious circle that maintains the low status of VET education. Published in the journal, Issues in Educational Research, 34(1), 2024

Dr Karen O‘Reilly-Briggs, 
Dr Rochelle Fogelgarn,
Dr Jacolyn Weller

Best Conference Abstract:
Kit McMahon : The Reference Man at VET: Gender, Power, and the Social Construction of Skill in VET Qualifications Reform