JANET A. HARKNESS STUDENT PAPER AWARD COMPETITION
The World Association for Public Opinion Research and the American Association for Public Opinion Research requests submissions for the Janet A. Harkness Student Paper Award to be considered for the award as part of the program for the joint annual conference
in 2016. This award is given in memory of Dr. Harkness, distinguished cross-cultural survey methodologist,
who passed away in 2012.
Paper topics must be related to the study of multi-national/multi-cultural/multi-lingual survey research (aka 3M survey research), or to the theory and
methods of 3M survey research, including statistics and statistical techniques used in such research. Paper topics might include: (a) methodological and/or statistical issues in 3M surveys; (b) public opinion in 3M settings; (c) theoretical issues in the formation,
quality, or change in 3M public opinion; (d) or substantive findings about 3M public opinion.
An award of $750 will be given to the winning paper at the WAPOR/AAPOR joint annual conference, which will be held May 10-15, 2016 in Austin, TX, USA. The lead author of
the paper will deliver it as part of the conference program. His or her travel expenses to the meeting will be paid by the Harkness Award Fund administered by WAPOR (if there is more than one author, the travel expenses of only one will be paid). In addition,
one or more papers may receive an Honorable Mention designation.
Eligibility.
All authors of any submission must be current students (graduate or undergraduate) at the time of the submission, or must have received their degree during the 2015 calendar year. The research must have been substantially
completed while all authors were enrolled in a degree program. Judges will give preference to papers based on research not presented elsewhere or previously published.
Submission. The submission process for the Harkness Award is a two-stage process.
1.
Authors should submit an abstract of their paper to the WAPOR conference, the deadline for which is
Friday, November 13, 2016 at midnight EST. The website for electronic submissions can be found
here.
2.
Authors whose abstracts have been accepted for the 2015 conference can have their papers considered for the Harkness Award. Authors should submit their completed paper
electronically (PDFs only), by midnight EST Wednesday, March 16, 2016, to Award Committee Chair Brad Edwards ([log in to unmask]). Please include each author's name, telephone number and email address. Entries are typically 15-25 pages long.
In addition, each submission must include a cover page that: (1) explains why
all authors meet the eligibility criteria; and (2) states whether the paper has been presented elsewhere, published, or accepted for publication at the time of submission. Also by the deadline, a faculty advisor will need to email the award committee
chair, attesting to the role that all authors played in conceptualizing the study and writing the paper.
Judging. A panel of researchers from WAPOR and AAPOR’s memberships–drawn from the academic, government, and commercial sectors–will judge
submissions. Competitors will be notified by April 1, 2016. The committee reserves the right not to give an award.
Tom W. Smith | Senior Fellow
NORC at the University of Chicago
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