School of Psychology and Social Science
Magdalena Prize for Feminist Research
Application Form
2015
The Magdalena Prize for Feminist Research has been established to recognise excellence in students who have undertaken feminist PhD research at Edith Cowan University. The prize of $1500 will be awarded to the student determined by the Selection Committee to have submitted the best feminist PhD thesis.
Eligible applicants for the 2015 award will be ECU students whose PhD thesis has passed examination between 30 September 2014 and 30 September 2015. Eligibility will apply to theses which contribute explicitly to the feminist research endeavour, through their application and/or elaboration of feminist thought and/or their application and/or development of feminist research methodologies.
Applicants are requested to complete this Application Form and to email it to Dr Lekkie Hopkins, Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Social Science by Friday 20 November 2015.
The Selection Committee of three feminist scholars will base their decision about the relative quality of each eligible PhD thesis on information supplied in the nomination process and, where necessary, on the thesis document itself.
The winner(s) will be notified by the University in January 2016 and will be advised then of the date and location of the prize-giving ceremony.
The Selection Committee reserves the right not to award a prize in any given year.
Please supply the following information
Applicant’s name
Applicant’s ECU student number
ECU Faculty of PhD enrolment
Supervisors’ names
Thesis title
Thesis abstract
Date of submission of thesis for examination
Name and institutional affiliation of examiners
Date of conclusion of the examination process
Grading received under the examination process
Please answer the following questions as succinctly as possible (up to 500 words each)
1. How has your thesis contributed to the feminist research endeavour?
2. Which feminist theorists and/or feminist research methodologies does your thesis engage with?
3. What do you consider to be the political significance and impact of your PhD research?
Supporting documentation
Appendices: Please scan and submit excerpts from any documents you consider relevant to support your application, eg examiners’ reports and/or other scholarly responses to the research (peer review of papers, journal publications); responses from industry, media, popular press.
Please indicate here what supporting documentation you have supplied.
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Applicant’s signature
Date
Applicants are requested to complete this Application Form and to email it to Dr Lekkie Hopkins, Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Social Science by Friday 20 November 2015.
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