PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

Purpose : The Public Scholarship Award recognizes exemplary interdisciplinary research that has a demonstrable ameliorative impact on pressing public issues with a special focus on the knowledge needs of policymakers and practitioners. This award recognizes research that generates non-traditional scholarly products, presented in a manner that is widely accessible to targeted audiences and/or the general public. Such work might include policy briefs, program evaluations, white papers, reports, translations of scientific or other scholarly findings, site revitalization plans, concept maps, videos, or other creative products designed to respond to and inform broader publics.

Eligibility: Any scholar (or team of scholars) with a distinguished body of high-impact contributions, indicating sustained field-building commitment and activity. “Scholar” as used here encompasses those who self-define as “researchers,” “scholars,” or “practitioner-scholars” and does not imply any particular academic status.

Criterios de evaluación

  1. Reciprocity and engagement. Research that responds to and involves community-based thought partners in the framing, design, analysis, creation, and/or dissemination of a non-traditional scholarly product.

  2. Rigor y calidad. Métodos de investigación adecuados a la pregunta/cuestión y al contexto, y que cumplen con los más altos estándares de rigor académico. 

  3. Accessibility. Scholarly products are thoughtfully designed to be accessible to the intended public audience.

  4. Generativity. Research that expands involvement, generates opportunities for further inquiry, advances collaboration or co-creation in scholarly production, generates new knowledge, and/or utilizes novel or creative approaches in addressing public issues.

  5. Public impact. Research that has a demonstrated value to communities and community organizations, and/or a measurable public impact including improvements to public policies and practices, program outcomes, and organizational changes.

Paquete de nominación

  1. Una carta de nominación (que no exceda las dos páginas) redactada por colegas académicos, estudiantes y/o socios comunitarios en la que se resuma la contribución del candidato y se establezca su importancia en el avance del conocimiento, la profundización de la investigación y la práctica, y/o el impacto en las políticas (se aceptan cartas coescritas).

  2. One letter of support (not to exceed one page each) attesting to the quality and impact of the nominee’s work (co-authored letters are welcome). We welcome letters of support from individuals/organizations most involved with or impacted by the scholar’s work.

  3. Una publicación u otro producto académico representativo del trabajo del candidato que cumpla con los criterios del premio.

  4. Una declaración del candidato (que no exceda las dos páginas) en la que se expongan los objetivos, los procedimientos de investigación, los resultados y las orientaciones futuras (opcional).

  5. Una copia actualizada del currículum vitae o historial profesional del candidato.