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GWF Emerging Scholars Award

Course(s) Offered: Water-related fields
Course Level: Research, projects, opinions
Provider: Global Water Forum
Country to Study in: All countries

Scholarship Description
The annual GWF Emerging Scholars Award is an chance for early-career scholars together with practitioners working inward water-related fields to set out a brusk article presenting their research, projects, or opinions to a global audience.

The top 3 articles, equally judged past times a panel of leading H2O experts, volition hold upwardly awarded a monetary prize. The 10 finalists volition hold upwardly given the chance to set out their function on the official site.

Applications are currently opened upwardly for the 2013 Award together with volition closed at midnight (GMT) on xviii Nov 2013. Details regarding submissions tin hold upwardly found below on this page. The Award is run each twelvemonth together with entries of all of 2012 Award finalists tin hold upwardly found on the official website (via link provided below).

Eligibility
Participants are required to:

• Submit an 800-1,000 give-and-take article relevant to the theme ‘Water Cooperation’.
• Be a PhD recipient or PhD candidate nether 36 years of age on the engagement of submission.

Judging criteria:
Submissions volition hold upwardly judged on the next criteria:

• Originality of idea or approach to a subject/issue/problem.
• Written expression.
• Clarity together with soundness of argument.

Put simply, nosotros are looking for well-written, interesting articles that acquaint innovative research, pregnant insights, or compelling arguments. Moreover, the articles cause got to hold upwardly accessible to readers who create non function inward the specific champaign and, to a greater extent than importantly, the full general public; highly technical articles lacking clear explanations volition non advance far inward the judging process.

Past students, collaborators, and/or colleagues of Professor Grafton, Dr Pittock, together with Dr Connell, equally good equally employees of United Nations Organisations volition non hold upwardly eligible for the fiscal prizes associated alongside the Award. They may, however, hold upwardly eligible to hold upwardly selected equally 1 of the 10 finalists or to cause got their articles published on the site at a afterward date.

Eligible groups
Citizens of ALL countries worldwide

Participating Institutions
The UNESCO Chair inward Water Economics together with Transboundary Water Governance at the Australian National University.

Partners include:
UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, together with Cultural Organisation),
ANU (the Australian National University), and
The United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation 2013.

Fields of study
The GWF is pleased to partner alongside the UN International Year of Water Cooperation 2013 inward presenting this year’s theme: ‘Water Cooperation’.

This broad theme encompasses many aspects of H2O governance, including transboundary governance, development, economical approaches to resolving H2O disputes, solving H2O safety issues, amid many others.

Participants are non required to formally flora the link of the chosen topic to ‘Water Cooperation’ together with a broad project design of the theme volition hold upwardly used inward the judging process.

Number of awards
The best 10 (10) volition hold upwardly selected

Scholarship benefits
The top 10 finalists volition hold upwardly offered the chance to set out on the Global Water Forum site together with inward the GWF Discussion Paper Series during Dec 2013. High-quality entries which are non selected equally finalists may besides hold upwardly offered the chance to set out their articles at a afterward date.

First prize is US$500; instant prize is US$300; together with 3rd prize is US$200.

Method of Application
The Emerging Scholars Award is judged past times a panel of leading H2O researchers from the Australian National University including: Professor Quentin Grafton, Dr Jamie Pittock, together with Dr Daniel Connell.

Articles should hold upwardly submitted using 1 of the next templates: Microsoft Word or PDF. Word is the preferred format.

All submissions should hold upwardly made to the Contact below.

Selected finalists volition hold upwardly required to provide: (i) proof that they were nether 36 years of historic menstruum on the engagement of submission (e.g. scan of driver’s license or passport), together with (ii) proof of enrolment inward or completion of a PhD programme (e.g. link to institutional profile page).

Submissions:
Eligible submissions to the Award volition belong to 1 of the next 3 categories:

• Research pieces – a summary or overview of water-related academic enquiry undertaken past times the author. This may hold upwardly enquiry that has already been published elsewhere or unpublished research. Although summaries are permitted, all entries cause got to hold upwardly master copy pieces of work.
• Project pieces – an overview of a field-based H2O projection or projects that the writer is or has been involved in, describing the challenges, successes, lessons, etc.
• Opinion pieces – insightful, bear witness based comment on electrical flow or futurity H2O issues. This could involve issues that are already prominent inward world discourse, or issues that the writer believes should hold upwardly prominent.

DEADLINES:
Applications volition closed at midnight (GMT) on xviii Nov 2013.

PLEASE NOTE:
The Global Water Forum was established inward 2010 equally an inaugural of the UNESCO Chair inward Water Economics together with Transboundary Water Governance inward guild to brand H2O related cognition together with resources freely available. The contributions render evidence-based, accessible, together with freely available articles looking at local, regional, together with global H2O challenges.

The Global Water Forum Emerging Scholars Award is sponsored past times the UNESCO Chair inward Water Economics together with Transboundary Water Governance at the Australian National University. Partners inward this inaugural include: the United Nations Educational, Scientific, together with Cultural Organisation, the Australian National University, together with the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation 2013.

The Global Water Forum, UNESCO, together with the Australian National University take no responsibleness for the contents of Emerging Scholar Award entries which are published on the Global Water Forum. Whilst the Global Water Forum endeavours to ensure that all published articles are master copy content, the authors are responsible for the contents of articles together with whatever copyright violations or legal consequences arising from the contents. Please meet the Global Water Forum’s full general price together with weather condition on the official website (via link provided below).

Contact
Please straight all enquiries together with submissions to: emergingscholars@globalwaterforum.org.

Application Deadline: xviii Nov 2013
Open to International Applicants: Yes

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