Pete Hay Early Career Research Prize is awarded to the best paper on the topic of environmental politics by an early career researcher at the APSA Annual Conference.
Key Dates
- Call for nominations open: 29 July 2025
- Call for nominations closes: 25 October 2025
- Committee notifies APSA Board of winner(s): 14 November 2025
- Committee announces winner(s) during APSA conference: 25-27 November 2025
The Pete Hay Early Career Research Prize is named after Dr Pete Hay, a trailblazer in the research and scholarship of environmental politics and policy in Australia and the Founding Convenor of the Ecopolitics Association of Australasia.
Nomination Guidelines:
- The Prize is awarded to the best full paper by an early career researcher (up to 5 years since the award of the PhD at the date of the start of that year’s APSA conference, allowing for career interruptions) on environmental politics to be presented at the APSA Conference.
- To be eligible, papers must be the length of a standard journal article or book chapter (typically in the range of 7,000-10,000 words plus references). Very brief papers and notes from presentations will not be considered.
- Entrants must be a current financial member of APSA and a member of the Environmental Politics and Policy Research Group.
- To nominate, please review the award criteria and complete the submission form (also attached below).
- The Environmental Politics and Policy Research Group reserves the right not to award the prize in any given year.
Award Details:
- The winner will be announced during the Group’s annual meeting at the APSA conference.
- The award includes $250, funded by the Environmental Politics and Policy Standing Research Group on the basis of a generous bequest from Pete Hay, and a one-on-one feedback and mentoring session with the judging panel for publication during the conference.
