Watson’s Distinctions/Honours include; PHD, Fine Arts Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Wellington, Postgraduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Master of Visual Arts Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia, Sculpture Trust 4 Plinths Public Sculpture Award, Fulbright-Wallace Art Award, Visual arts residency at Headlands Centre for the Arts, Sausolito, California, a Walter W. Ristow Prize for an emerging scholar in the History of Cartography, an Asialink Australia Visual Arts Residency: New Delhi and a Visual arts residency, Kunst-Werke, Berlin.