Early Career Researcher Award

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.

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
• have an appointment at no higher than Level B (or equivalent) if employed by a university
• submit a proposal for a conference paper by the closing date for conference paper proposals to aare@aare.edu.au on the appropriate conference form
• submit one single-authored paper by the closing date indicated below
• nominate for the award at the time of submitting the paper proposal
• be able to attend the full conference
• be willing to present a conference paper or lead a symposium based on their research, and deliver the paper as scheduled
• have not previously received an AARE Early Career Researcher award

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

The winner of the award will be announced at the Conference and may be invited by the editor of The Australian Educational Researcher to submit the paper for consideration for publication in the journal.

Please Note:

• Proposals, using the form for the Annual Conference, must be submitted by the closing date for proposals for the Annual Conference.
• The full paper for the award must be submitted by 30 October in each year.
• The Award is made in conjunction with the Annual Conference, not any special conference such as a focus conference.
• Proposers may opt for full paper refereeing for their proposed paper at the time of lodging the proposal. If so, the closing date for a full paper for refereeing applies.
• Only one paper per researcher / research team should be submitted for the Award in any year. Papers previously submitted may not be re-submitted.

Closing date for submission of full paper: 30 October each year.

Please send an MSWord disk/digital copy of your paper with a covering letter attached to an email to aare@aare.edu.au .