Purpose
The AARE Early Career Researcher Award recognises an outstanding conference paper by an early career researcher presented at the annual AARE Conference. AARE established this award to encourage early career researchers to present their research at the annual conference and to become actively involved in the Association.
Award
Funding round: single round per annum
Applications due: 11:59pm on 30 August, 2024
Status of round: Closed
Benefits to Awardee: Certificate and up to $1,000 to assist with conference attendance expenses
The winner of the Award may be invited by the editor of The Australian Educational Researcher to submit the paper for consideration for publication in the journal (subject to double blind peer review).
Applicant
- An early career researcher is one who has been awarded a doctoral degree within the past five years.
- Eligible persons may apply for the Award themselves, or may be nominated by another person (e.g., a colleague or supervisor or referee).
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for consideration for the award, applicants must meet all the following criteria:
- be a member of AARE
- have been awarded a doctoral degree within the past 5 years
- meet the closing date for conference abstract submission
- have an abstract accepted for presentation at the conference through the abstract submission process via the AARE conference website
- submit a first-authored conference paper for review by the Conference Awards Panel via the online submission process (see below) by the advertised due date
- be able to attend the conference
- deliver the presentation at the conference as programmed
- have not previously received an AARE Early Career Researcher Award
It is possible to submit a jointly authored paper for an award. Award applicants must be the first named author on the paper. AARE places the responsibility for full disclosure to co-authors with the first author of a paper submitted for consideration in these award categories.
Merit Criteria
As the intent of the award is to honour and facilitate outstanding scholarship, applications will be judged on the basis of the following academic merit criteria:
- Originality
- Contemporary significance and /or scholarly relevance
- Conceptual, methodological and theoretical soundness
- Disciplined, focused and persuasive argument
- Coherent organisation and clarity of written expression
- Comprehensive reference to appropriate literature
Only one paper per researcher or research team should be submitted for this Award in any one year. Papers previously submitted may not be re-submitted. The same paper cannot be submitted for more than one award in any year.
Conditions
Funds will be made available following the conference paper presentation.
How to apply
Applications should be submitted via the Conference Awards Application Form.
Selection process
Eligible applications will be assessed against the merit criteria by the Awards Panel, which is convened each year by the Awards Convenor.
The Panel’s decision will be final and no further correspondence will be entered into.
Enquiries
Previous awardees
2023
Dr Sally Larsen University of New England
2022
