Best AJARE Article by an Early Career Researcher

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Purpose

The AJARE Award for an Early Career Researcher (ECR) is intended to recognise the most outstanding paper by an ECR published in AJARE during that year.  The objective of the award is:

• to recognise the work done by ECRs
• to encourage top quality submissions by ECRs, and
• to reinforce the AJARE identity

Value of the Award

The winning author will receive a certificate at the AARES Annual Conference Dinner, a $500 cheque from AARES and a $250 Wiley book voucher.

Eligibility

Any article accepted and published in AJARE by an ECR in the calendar year preceding the year of recognition is automatically eligible.

The lead or the corresponding author must be an Early Career Researcher, defined as either being a current student pursuing their degree, or within 5 years of obtaining the most recent degree.

The ECR must have been a member of AARES when the work was published.

General

The decision of the Council of the Society will be final and no correspondence will be entered into with authors of articles considered for the award.

A maximum of one award will be given per year.

Prize Committee

The committee will comprise the editors of AJARE.

Instructions to the Prize Committee

The committee will determine the system to be used in judging entries and the specific criteria to be applied.

The committee should finalise its decision at least two weeks prior to the AARES Annual Conference in the year of the award, and should advise the Federal Secretary of the result so that he/she can advise Wiley to enable them to prepare a cheque, book voucher and certificate for presentation at the conference dinner.

Previous Award Winners

AJARE Award Committee

The Award Committee is made up by the current Editors of the Journal.