[Air-L] Applications now open for AusSTS Awards & Prizes 🏆

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*Applications now open for AusSTS Awards & Prizes 🏆*

AusSTS is thrilled to announce the launch of two new annual awards: the
AusSTS Best Paper Prize and the AusSTS Making & Doing Award.

The prizes will be awarded at the AusSTS 2026 Conference hosted by Te
Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, 9 - 11 November. The
theme of the conference is ‘Antipodean Interruptions.’ Deadline for
submissions is Friday 3 April. To see the full CFP visit:
https://aussts.org/aussts2026
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1. AusSTS Best Paper Prize

The AusSTS Best Paper Prize aims to celebrate the work of junior STS
scholars in the AusSTS community. Established in 2026 and awarded annually,
the Prize recognises an article-length work (no more than 12,000 words) of
exceptional quality and significance. It aims to encourage and reward
ambitious and thoughtful scholarship, and to promote the best work in the
region to the wider field. The prize will be announced at the annual
conference and the winner will receive complimentary registration for the
following year’s conference.

*Eligibility*

The prize is open to current PhD students and Early Career Researchers
(ECRs), who have conferred their PhD within the last two years of the
submission closing date. Nominees must have previously attended at least
one AusSTS conference. For published manuscripts, there are no limitations
on which journals are eligible. Nominations are accepted from authors,
AusSTS members, and journal editors. Unpublished article-length manuscripts
and articles/chapters first published in 2024 and 2025 and eligible for the
AusSTS 2026 Best Paper Prize.

Applications for the 2026 prize are now open. Please use the nomination form
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to
apply. Applications will close Friday 2 May, 11:59pm AEST.

For more information about the prize visit: https://aussts.org/awards-prizes
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2. AusSTS Making & Doing Award

The AusSTS Making and Doing award celebrates non-traditional research
scholarship that prioritises enacted, embodied and situated forms of STS
knowledge making. Following the distinctive format of STS Making and Doing
established at 4S in 2015, this prize recognises responsive and responsible
scholarship which problematises how knowledge work itself comes to life in
a conference format. Examples of Making & Doing activities include
ethnographic films, installations, hands-on workshops, games, and more. The
prize will be awarded at the annual conference and the winner will receive
free registration for the following year’s conference.

*Eligibility*

This prize is only open to entrants of the Making and Doing session at the
AusSTS annual conference. If you have a presentation in this session, you
will automatically be considered for the award.

For more information about the award visit: https://aussts.org/awards-prizes
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