VIA AFRIKA -ALASA AWARDS FOR EMERGING RESEARCHERS

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Closing date for nominations: 31 May 2018

Please email scanned versionsof the required documents to:

RECIPIENT

The certificate is awarded in recognition of excellent research in African language, linguistic and literature by an emerging researcher in the last 5 years.Membership of ALASA is a requirement for nominations.

CRITERIA FOR AWARD

A candidate is eligible for nomination if he/she meets the following criteria:

  • Made a significant contribution to African languages, linguistics or literatures in terms of research outputs- in the form of publications in accredited journals (three of which should be sole authored)/ successful post graduate supervision, successful completion of funded research projects and other recognizable scholarly works.
  • Candidates must be in possession of a PhD,completed withinthe last 5 years prior to being nominated.
  • Candidates must not be older than 40 years of age.

PROCEDURE

Candidates should be nominated by their institutions, Head of Departments/Member/sof the Associations/ colleagues and other relevant structures.

IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS

All nominations must be accompanied by the following documents:

a)Nomination form

b)Two page curriculum vitae of the nominee

c)Two page motivation in favour of the nominated candidate

d)Three samples of published works / and/or evidence of successfully supervised post graduate students / successfully completed research projects

e)PhD abstract

OCCASION FOR AWARD

The award will be made at a ceremony of the Gala dinner (scheduled to take place at the 2018 University of Cape Town Conference of the Language Associations Conference (9-11 July 2018). The Chair of ALASA is to present the award. The recipient of the certificate as well as the person who nominated the recipient are encouraged to be present at this function.

VIA AFRIKA AWARDS FOR EMERGING RESEARCHER

NOMINATION FORM

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Nominee

I …………………………………………………...... declare that I have taken note of the criteria and procedures and accept the nomination for the VIA AFRIKA AWARDS.

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