IAMCR is offering several awards and grants for authors of papers accepted for presentation at our 2025 conference. These include travel grants, awards for excellent papers dealing with climate change communication, urban communication, and rural communication services, the award in Memory of Stuart Hall, and a new thematic award Decolonising the Digital.
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A number of Travel Grants will be made available to early-career scholars, who are members of IAMCR, reside in low and middle income countries and have papers accepted for presentation at our upcoming conference in Singapore.
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The Climate Change Communication Award will be given to three papers that display scholarly excellence, are innovative in nature, and have an explicit focus on climate change communication.
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The Award in Memory of Stuart Hall will be granted to graduate students and early-career scholars for work that combines analytical excellence and an evident engagement with the interventionist, critical attributes that marked Stuart Hall's contribution to the study of media, communication, culture and political science.
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The Urban Communication Award, offered in collaboration with the Urban Communication Foundation (UCF), will be given to three papers that explore innovative approaches to urban communication.
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The Rural Communication Services Research Awards - In cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), IAMCR is offering three awards of 2,500 USD to authors of papers that advance our understanding of applications of Rural Communication Services (RCS), particularly in the areas of agriculture, family farming, natural resource management, climate change adaptation, food security, and disaster risk reduction and management.
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A new thematic award, Decolonising the Digital, will be offered to three papers that contribute to our understanding of the new global dynamics of digital politics, cultures, and infrastructures, with the aim of identifying modes of control and resistance, and ultimately, challenging digital colonialism. Papers may be submitted by authors from all career stages.
Note that the above five awards require two-steps to apply:
- Step one is to submit an abstract to IAMCR 2025 (deadline 7 February). Abstracts can be submitted to any section or working group for the Climate Change, Urban Communication, Stuart Hall and Decolonising the digital awards. For the Rural Communication award they must be submitted to the Rural Communication Working Group.
- Step 2 is to submit the final paper by 24 March (for the Climate Change, Urban Communication, Stuart Hall and Decolonising the digital awards) and by 21 April for the Rural Communication Services award. The final papers will be reviewed by selection committees and the winners will be notified at the beginning of May.
