Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Doctoral Dissertation Award
Submission guidelines
The International Association for Qualitative Inquiry is pleased to announce the Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Doctoral Dissertation Award. In honor of Norman K. Denzin, this award is given for outstanding dissertations, which extend our thinking about the possibilities of qualitative research and the implementation of justice. The awards committee will thus look for dissertations that contribute to thought and to action relevant to the establishment of social justice, and that demonstrate innovative research practices, combined with innovative use of contemporary theory.
Applications will be assessed in terms of the following criteria:
- The successful development of new and/or traditional writing forms, which may include art-making and other creative practices. Such writing forms include, but are not limited to, autoethnography, collective biography, poetry, narrative, performance, arts-based, and post-qualitative approaches to inquiry etc;
- Successful elaboration of the theoretical approach adopted–which may be, for example, poststructural, postmodern, post-humanist, decolonial, anti-racist, feminist, queer, gender plurality etc;
- Evidence of the deployment of innovative, justice-oriented research strategies that work toward ameliorative social transformation and ongoing response-ability, such as decolonial, anti-racist, feminist, queer strategies, economic justice approaches, and ecology approaches, etc;
- Clear articulation of the relevance of the groups, or places focussed on, for example, children, youth, refugees, immigrants, subordinated members of mainstream cultures, non-human subjects with/in the environment, and so on;
- An interesting, innovative approach to a field of study, where fields of study may include, for example, public discourse practices, systems of government and their impacts, education, public health, environmental studies, therapy, and policy studies, etc;
- And last but not least, clarity of writing.
All applicants are eligible, provided they have successfully defended their doctoral dissertations within the past three years. Receiving or being considered for other Congress awards does not preclude an applicant from applying for this award.
