2024 GI Prizes for Excellence in Gender and Sexuality Research

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Overview

The ANU Gender Institute Prizes for Excellence in Gender and Sexuality Research are awarded annually to honour research that has made an important contribution to the fields of gender, feminist perspectives and/or sexuality by an ANU student.
 
The prizes are awarded under the following categories:
  • Higher Degree by Research: PhD and M. Phil theses - $1,000
  • Honours theses and Masters by coursework/research - $500
  • Journal article published in 2024 by an ANU Higher Degree Researcher– $500

Eligibility

The award is available each year to any ANU student/higher degree researcher who is a domestic or international student and has been enrolled in an undergraduate/postgraduate degree program in the relevant year
In the case of the award for Honours thesis /Masters by coursework/research, the thesis must have received a grade of at least 80% (HD/H1). Items submitted for this prize should be (a) the major research component of the degree (b) at least 10,000 words.

 

Selection and Constraints

A selection committee is convened by the ANU Gender Institute every year to decide the award for each category. Prize recipients are selected by sub-committees on the following basis:
  • Quality in the specialist disciplines or field (as evinced in the examiners’ reports).
  • Contributions of the thesis or article to advancing gender and sexuality research (to include, for instance, feminist perspectives or queer theory).
The following criteria will be taken into account in assessing the achievement of the two aims articulated above:
(a) Originality of argument in relation to the existing literature
(b) Clarity in development of argument
(c) Critical use of evidence and textual materials
(d) Appropriate choice and use of methods
(e) Lucidity in writing and appropriate citation, bibliography as per the field
(g) The work must have been completed and examined (or published) during 2024
 
The ANU Gender Institute reserves the right to make no award if it considers there is no applicant of sufficient merit. The ANU Gender Institute may also vary the number of prizes if multiple winners are identified.

    Application

    To apply, applicants should:
    1. Download and complete an application form (attached below)
    2. Submit this form signed and dated with the filename appended to include your initials, along with the required documents (listed below), via email to admin.genderinstitute@anu.edu.au
     

    Required documents

    • The completed application form
    • A copy of the thesis/article
    • The supervisor's letter of support (including for Honours the numerical grades awarded by examiners, overall numerical grade for the honours year and final level of award, the percentage weight for the thesis, and how the candidate ranked in relation to the overall honours cohort in that year).
    • Reports from examiners (for thesis) or referees (for article).

    Deadline

    Applications closed on 20 February 2025.
    Please direct all enquiries to admin.genderinstitute@anu.edu.au

    Updated:  6 December 2024/Responsible Officer:  Convenor, Gender Institute/Page Contact:  Gender Institute