APSR / APTA Young Investigator Award
This Award is offered to the author of the best abstract submitted to the APSR Congress APSR Congress in Hanoi 14–17 November 2019.
Inaugurated for the 2018 Congress, the Award will be available at each future APSR Congress.
Eligibility:
The awardee must be:- an APSR member (en bloc or individual)
- aged ≤40 at the start of the Congress
- normally resident in the Asia-Pacific, in a country or region that is an LMIC (low-to-middle income country)*
- The First Author and able to present the paper in person at the Congress
- Not a winner of any other award for the same paper
- Registered for the Congress by the abstract submission deadline
Award includes:
- $500 (funded by the APSR)
- invitation to the Gala Dinner (or similar social event) at the Congress
- commemorative certificate
- recognition on the APSR Noticeboard webpage, Timeline webpage and social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)
Selection:
- The paper is selected by the Local Congress Committee, supported by the APSR assemblies, who rank papers for their novelty, importance, methodology, clarity and overall quality. A consensus on the best paper is then obtained through a rigorous judging system.
Award presentation:
- The certificate will be presented during the Gala Dinner (or similar social event) at the Congress. Where the paper has more than one author, the certificate will be in the name of all the paper's authors.
- The US$500 award will be passed to the First Author by the APSR Secretariat.
- The awardee's name and photograph will appear on the APSR website, Bulletin and social media after the Congress.
| * | "LMIC" is defined as a "lower-middle income country", a list of which can be seen at data.worldbank.org/income-level/low-and-middle-income. |
