Deadline: 28-Apr-23
Know a humanities early-career scholar whose work is helping the general public better understand their discipline? Nominate them for Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement & promise in the humanities: the Max Crawford Medal!
The Max Crawford Medal is Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the Humanities. It is presented annually to an early-career scholar working and publishing in the humanities, whose publications contribute towards an understanding of their discipline by the general public. The Crawford Medal is based on a nomination process.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nominees must be Citizens or Permanent Residents of Australia. Nominees must be in the early stages of their careers, which will be determined, inter-alia, by how recently a PhD was conferred. In normal circumstances it should have been conferred no more than five years prior to the closing date for nominations.
- Nominees who have received their PhD more than five years ago but who can demonstrate a significant, commensurate period of career interruption (such as maternity or parental leave, carer’s responsibility, illness, unemployment, or non-research employment) may be considered eligible. This includes disruptions caused by COVID-19. A justification for the career interruption must be submitted as part of the proposal.
- Nominators must submit a complete application in order to be assessed for eligibility.
- The decision of the Awards Committee upon the eligibility of an application is final.
Selection Criteria
- Quality and Impact: The nominee’s work must be both of high quality, and deep impact. It must be academically sound and thoroughly researched and have contributed to a deeper understanding of a humanities discipline amongst the general public.
- Enrichment of Cultural Life: The nominee’s work must have contributed to the enrichment of the cultural life of Australia or have the potential to do so.
- Media/Genre: The nominee’s work can exist in any form, as long as it fulfils the selection criteria. It could be a monograph, a television or radio documentary, a series of journal articles, a scholarly website, or a film of academic merit, etc.
- Goal Focused: The nominee’s work must focus specifically on a particular research goal within the wider discipline. For example, for a series of journal articles to meet this criterion, they must all have in their purpose the development and/or conclusion of a specific path of research in a humanities discipline.
For more information, visit Australian Academy of the Humanities.