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TASA Conference Scholarship for Sociologists Outside Academe

Application Close 7th September, 2012

This scholarship seeks to encourage the participation of sociologists working outside academe (in areas such as private industry, government and non-government organisations, and private contract and consultancy work) with The Australian Sociological Association (TASA). The TASA Executive would like to encourage non-academic members who have conducted applied research or written sociological papers on their work to apply for the scholarship.

Prize

Registration for the annual conference
A certificate for receipt of scholarship

Eligibility Criteria

Those eligible for consideration of the scholarship will meet the following criteria:

Current or recent employment or self-employment in an area such as private industry, government organisation, non-government organisation, private contract work, or consultancy work
Applicants working in universities, academic research centres or joint industry-university centres are not eligible
Acceptance of a paper where the first-named author and presenter is a TASA member as part of the refereed proceedings of TASA Conference
Not previously a recipient of the award
Current financial TASA members
Agree to submit a brief profile of their work/career to be published in Nexus.

Application Procedure

Nominations must be made on this official nomination form (also available from TASA web or TASA office)
Papers must be submitted to the refereed proceedings by the deadlines set by the Conference Local Organising Committee (LOC). Please make sure you double check this date on the TASA Conference website in case the deadline is brought forward.
Applications will be reviewed by TASA Executive sub-committee and decision will be made taking into consideration the ranking provided by the LOC
Up to three scholarships may be awarded each year
Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application by early October. This will allow enough time for those nominees who were not successful to still register for the conference at the ‘Early Bird’ rate.
The decision of the review panel is final and no further discussions will be entered into
Successful applicants will have the payment of their conference and workshop registrations made by the TASA Office.

Please contact the TASA Office (admin@tasa.org.au) for a copy of the form.

Selection Panel

Selection panel will normally consist of the Vice President (convenor), General Executive member, and Conference Convenor.

2011 Recipient

Rock Chugg

2010 Recipients

Dr Dina Bowman
Dr Stephen Kerry

Note: Any changes to prize value, eligibility criteria and nomination/submission procedure are subject to TASA Executive approval.