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Reminder JESP/ESPAnet DOCTORAL RESEARCHER PRIZE 2007 Closing date for submissions: 5 January 2008 The Journal of European Social Policy and the Network for European Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet) are offering a prize to the best paper by a doctoral researcher presented at any of the ESPAnet conferences, workshops or seminars in 2007. The prize-winning paper is provided with high-profile publication in the Journal of European Social Policy, and the winner also receives 1 year's free subscription to the journal. The JESP/ESPAnet Doctoral Researcher Prize is much more than 'a way to get published': the judging process is tougher than normal journal refereeing procedures, and the high-profile publication and public announcements of the winning paper reward the author for the outstanding and exciting quality of their work. The judging process is fully anonymous. There are four senior, international scholars who act as judges, and who read all the papers submitted for the prize. The judges are particularly looking for exciting, innovative and scholarly work, which challenges existing perspectives; poses new research problems and develops answers to them; which offers sophisticated insights and interpretations from empirical evidence; and/or which develops new methods, or applies old methods in new ways to illuminate our understanding. Papers can cover any subject; country/countries; adopt any theoretical basis; use any methodology; and come from any discipline within the broad field of social policy. The only subject matter requirement is that the paper should make a contribution to our understanding of, and knowledge about, social policy in Europe. The submitted paper must have been presented at one of the ESPAnet conferences, workshops or seminars in 2007. The author(s) must, at the closing date of January 5 2008, not yet have been awarded a doctorate. Jointly authored papers are acceptable, providing that no authors have been awarded a doctorate at the closing date. The prize-winning paper for the doctoral researcher prize 2007 will be published in the Journal of European Social Policy in the first issue of 2009, and it will be specifically identified as the prize-winning paper. The winner also receives 1 year's free subscription to the Journal. FULL DETAILS OF RULES, GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION & CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT and ARE AVAILABLE FROM http://www.espanet.org