The AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science, recognizes early-career scientists and engineers who demonstrate excellence in their contribution to public engagement with science activities.
Eligibility
- Candidate must be “early career” which is defined as an individual who has completed their terminal degree within seven years of the deadline for nominations.
- Candidate must be an individual scientist or engineer. Groups or institutions will not be considered for this award. AAAS employees are ineligible. One scientist or engineer will be chosen to receive the award each year.
- Candidate must be a scientist or engineer actively conducting research in any scientific discipline (including social sciences and medicine). They may be based in academia, government or industry. Public engagement activities must be above and beyond job responsibilities.
- Candidate will have demonstrated excellence in his/her contributions to public engagement with science activities, with a focus on interactive dialogue between the individual and a non-scientific, public audience(s).
- Types of public engagement activities might include: informal science education, public outreach, public policy, and/or science communication activities, such as mass media, public dialogue, radio, TV and film, science cafés, science fairs, and social and online media.
Requirements
- Name, position, institution, professional address, email, and phone of the candidate
- Name, position, institution, professional address, email, and phone of the nominator or person writing the letter of support (in the case of self-nominations)
- Candidate qualifications statement of the public engagement activities that form the basis for the nomination – This statement of 500 words should discuss the candidate’s approach to public engagement. It should emphasize the candidate’s public engagement goal(s), intended audience(s), and message(s), as well as the level and type of dialogue achieved with their audiences, evaluation of public engagement work, and examples of how public engagement has affected the candidate’s scientific work.
- A letter of support from the nominator (a person who can speak to the candidate’s public engagement efforts) – This letter should provide more insight into the candidate’s work and discuss their accomplishments and can be written by a colleague, supervisor or participant.
- Up to two additional letters from different nominators may be submitted (not required).
- At least two (up to three) representative material samples or other documentation which illustrate or describe the candidate’s public engagement contributions. Samples should exhibit the activities discussed in the statement and further contribute to the narrative of the nomination, showing different representations of the breadth of their public engagement.
- The candidate’s curriculum vitae – Limit CV to five pages, with a specific section highlighting public engagement activities distinct from work that is required as part of the candidate’s job.
Deadline: June 30, 2020