Excellent Paper Competition 2024

From the Standing Group on Knowledge Politics and Policies.

Dear colleagues,

I would like to remind you that early career scholars affiliated with the “Knowledge Politics and Policies” Standing Group can apply for our Excellent Paper Award.

In order to be eligible for the 2024 round, the applicant and the paper need to fulfil the following criteria:

• Is an «emerging scholar» = currently enrolled in a PhD programme or has obtained PhD after January 2020;

• Is the Sole or Lead Author in the paper + the paper is topically relevant

  • Papers where all authors are emerging scholars are given priority;

• Presented the paper at a conference or workshop between November  2023 and November 2024

  • A revised version of the paper can be submitted for the competition

• Is a registered member of the Standing Group when applying

Application consists of:

• Paper presented (less than 8000 words, excluding references), along with  details of the conference (panel title, date of presentation)

• CV (2 pages, including details of institutional affiliation)

and needs to be submitted to martina.vukasovic@uib.no by 1 February 2025.

The decision of the jury, comprising Tatiana Fumasoli (UCL, UK), Emanuela Reale (IRCRES NRC, Italy), Kieron Flanagan (U of Manchester, UK), is expected to be announced in May 2025.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Kind regards,

Martina