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Early-Career Environment and Climate Politics Paper Prize

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This award, sponsored by the Environment and Climate Politics Working Group, is being established to honour the best environment or climate politics postgraduate / early-career paper presented at the BISA Annual conference. 

The award-winning paper will be peer-reviewed by the journal Environmental Politics.

We particularly encourage nominations from researchers based in the Global South.  

Recipient criteria

  • The award is open to papers presented at the BISA Annual in-person conference, launching in 2025. Papers need to have been presented on an ECP WG panel.
  • The person nominated must either be a PhD or within three years of graduating at the time the paper was presented.  

Prize

  • The award comes with peer-review by the journal Environmental Politics with a prospect for publication.
  • The winner will also publish a blog on the ECPWG website, introducing themselves and their research to the community. 

Nomination/application instructions

  • The deadline for nominations is 16 August 2025.
  • Nominations must include contact information of the nominee and a completed version of the nominated article, anonymised for review. They should be submitted electronically, in the form of a Word document, to the working group email: ecp.group@bisa.ac.uk
  • Self-nominations are strongly encouraged. Nominations may also be made by any BISA conference attendees. 

Selection process

  • The judging will be done by the Environment and Climate Politics Working Group convenors.
  • Results of the competition will be announced in mid-October.  
Find out more about the Environment and Climate Working Group