We are delighted to announce that the European Journal of Cultural Studies have kindly agreed to establish a best paper award for early career scholars presenting their research at the ECC in Aarhus in October 2022. The award has a financial value of 1500 euros and includes publication of the winning paper in the journal. It will be presented at the Aarhus conference.

The award is open to early career researchers who are either doctoral researchers or who have received their doctorate recently. Please submit papers that share the journal’s broad conception of cultural studies as rooted in lived experience and present well-theorized empirical research (https://journals.sagepub.com/description/ECS). The award will be given to the best paper which demonstrates critically-engaged and empirically-driven cultural studies in keeping with the aims of the European journal of Cultural Studies. Entrants must be presenting their paper at the ECC and must be a member of ECREA. Applicants should either be single or first authors and the papers should not have been already published in a scholarly journal.

The submission date for entries is Friday September 9th 4pm CEST.

All entries must follow the guidelines for submission to the European Journal of Cultural Studies (https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/ECS). Entrants should also submit a short biography (no more than 10 lines).

We are looking forward to reading your submissions! Please send your papers to info@ecrea.eu.

If you have further questions, please contact us at info@ecrea.eu.

The award will be judged by a committee comprising of:

• Joke Hermes (ECS founding co-editor)
• Goran Bolin
• Despina Chronaki
• John Downey