Deadline: May 31, 2024
Applications are open for the ENCATC Research Award on Cultural Policy and Cultural Management 2024. This prestigious recognition aims to stimulate academic research in the field of cultural policy and cultural management with an emphasis on its applied implications. The ENCATC Research Award also has the ambition to contribute to the process of creating a network of scholars who are competent in doing ground-breaking research projects in cultural policy and cultural management.
The annual ENCATC Research Award is granted to a recently published PhD thesis exploring topical issues at stake and taking a step from evaluative (descriptive) to innovative and internationally oriented research designs. In addition, it is rewarded to a PhD thesis that can inform policy making and benefit practitioners in the broad field of culture.
For this Research Award, a very broad definition of culture is used, going from the arts, cultural heritage and culture and creative sectors. Doctoral thesis submitted to the call should be related to the domain of cultural management and or policy.
Granted each year, the Award consists in a new book based on the winning doctoral thesis being published in the ENCATC Advances in Cultural Management and Policy Book Series, a series of publications specialising in topics related to cultural management and cultural policy. The ENCATC Book Series is now edited by Routledge, the world’s leading academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences and STEM.
Eligibility
- Candidates may be of any nationality and reside in any country worldwide.
- Candidates may be young or emerging researchers who have been recently defended their PhD thesis (up to 2 years after defence of the thesis) and be qualified with cum laude or equivalent highest qualification in the corresponding country’s higher education system.
- Doctoral thesis submitted to the call must be related to the domain of cultural management and or policy.
- Doctoral thesis may be submitted in any language. However, the applicant must submit an extensive summary in English.
- The work submitted for evaluation must be original (except for material in the public domain and/or material included with written permission of the copyright owners). This work cannot have been published previously in any form, whether fully or partially. However, if required, the work can be made available on a university website or in a national library.
- The work submitted for evaluation must not violate or infringe any existing copyright or licence or any other right of any person or party.
- Candidates can apply once only.
Assessment Criteria
The Assessment criteria will be based on:
- Thematic area;
- Quality of the research and the research methodology;
- Originality of the research topic;
- Innovative character of the research design;
- Relevance and inspiration for the field and/or for policy makers;
- International and comparative dimension of the research;
- Quality of writing.
Application
Applicant must fill in the online application form and upload the following documents:
- CV
- A cover letter
- Original table of contents of the doctoral thesis and a link to the full text
- A 3,000 word summary of the doctoral thesis in English including:
- Aim of the study and research questions
- Theoretical framework
- Methodological approaches, data collection and analysis, and ethical considerations
- Main results of the study
- Theoretical and practical contributions to the field of cultural management and/or policy
- Main references
- Letters of recommendation of two members of university’s jury/assessment board involved in the public defense process
Applications which are incomplete, do not meet eligibility criteria or do not respect the application procedure will be rejected automatically by the system.
For more information, visit ENCATC Research Award.
