Deadline: 31-May-23
The European network on cultural management and policy, ENCATC and The Cultural Management Fund from the University of Antwerp launch the call for applications for the 2023 ENCATC Research Award on Cultural Policy and Cultural Management.
This prestigious recognition aims to stimulate academic research in the field of cultural policy and cultural management with an emphasis on its applied implications. The ENCATC Research Award also has the ambition to contribute to the process of creating a network of scholars who are competent in doing ground-breaking research projects in cultural policy and cultural management.
The annual ENCATC Research Award is granted to a recently published PhD thesis exploring topical issues at stake and taking a step from evaluative (descriptive) to innovative and internationally oriented research designs. In addition, it is rewarded to a PhD thesis that can inform policy making and benefit practitioners in the broad field of culture.
For this Research Award, a very broad definition of culture is used, going from the arts, cultural heritage and culture and creative sectors. Doctoral thesis submitted to the call should be related to the domain of cultural management and or policy.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for the ENCATC Research Award:
- Candidates may be of any nationality and reside in any country worldwide.
- Candidates may be young or emerging researchers who have been recently defended their PhD thesis (up to 2 years after defence of the thesis) and be qualified with cum laude or equivalent highest qualification in the corresponding country’s higher education system.
- Doctoral thesis submitted to the call must be related to the domain of cultural management and or policy.
- Doctoral thesis may be submitted in any language. However, the applicant must submit an extensive summary in English.
- The work submitted for evaluation must be original (except for material in the public domain and/or material included with written permission of the copyright owners). This work cannot have been published previously in any form, whether fully or partially. However, if required, the work can be made available on a university website or in a national library.
- The work submitted for evaluation must not violate or infringe any existing copyright or licence or any other right of any person or party.
- Candidates can apply once only
Assessment Criteria
- The Assessment criteria will be based on:
- Thematic area;
- Quality of the research and the research methodology;
- Originality of the research topic;
- Innovative character of the research design;
- Relevance and inspiration for the field and/or for policy makers;
- International and comparative dimension of the research;
- Quality of writing.
For more information, visit ENCATC.