Submissions are now being accepted for the 2019 CRTC Prize for Excellence in Policy Research.
Co-sponsored by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and the Canadian Communications Association (CCA), the objective of the Prize is to encourage a new generation of researchers to contribute to Canada’s public policy development in the area of information and communication studies.
The Prize is awarded on an annual basis to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers at universities in Canada and abroad whose work touches on cross-cutting themes in the broad field of information and communication studies.
The submission deadline for the 2019 Prize is: Friday, January 25, 2019
Prize offerings:
Monetary awards in three categories:
- PhD candidates: $2,500
- Master’s degree candidates: $1,500
- Postdoctoral researchers: $1,000
- Travel to the CCA Conference and to the conference of the Canadian chapter of the International Institute of Communications (IIC)
- Publication of winning papers in both official languages on the CRTC website
- Presentation of winning papers before CRTC Commissioners and other federal policy makers
The complete terms and conditions of the Prize may be found here.
For updates about the CRTC Prize, follow on:- Twitter @CCA_ACdC, @CRTCeng, @CRTCfra
– Facebook @ACC/CCA, @crtceng and @crtcfra
– LinkedIn
For any questions about the Prize, please do not hesitate to contact:
Philippe Tousignant
Director, Planning, Research and Reporting
CRTC
Philippe.Tousignant@crtc.gc.ca
Daniel J. Paré, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
Past-President (2016-18), Canadian Communications Association
daniel.pare@uottawa.ca
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