The AAPOR Seymour Sudman Student Paper Competition
Nov 09 2004
The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) will award its 39th Annual Student Paper Prize this year at its Annual Conference at the Fontainebleau Hilton Resort in Miami, Florida, May 12-15, 2005. The award is in memory of Seymour Sudman to recognize his many important contributions to AAPOR and in teaching and mentoring students in the
survey research profession.
All authors must be current students (graduate or undergraduate) at the time of the submission, or must have received their degree during the calendar year 2004. The research must have been substantially completed while all authors were enrolled in a degree program. AAPOR will give preference to papers based on research not presented elsewhere, but will
consider papers presented at other conferences that have been substantially revised for this competition.
AAPOR will consider papers in any field related to the study of public opinion, broadly defined, or to the theory and methods of survey research, including statistical techniques used in such research. Paper topics might include methodological issues in surveys, public opinion or market research, theoretical issues in the formation, quality, or change in public opinion, or substantive findings about public opinion. The committee encourages submissions that deal with this year’s conference theme, Improving Survey Quality. The conference committee encourages authors to review the Call for Papers, which can be found on the AAPOR web site.
Entries normally are 15-25 pages in length. A prize of $500 will be awarded to the winning paper at the conference in Phoenix. The author of the paper will deliver it as a part of the conference program. AAPOR will pay for the author’s travel expenses to and from the meeting, but for papers with multiple authors, AAPOR will pay only for the primary author, who should also present the paper. Other papers may receive an Honorable Mention designation.
A panel of public opinion researchers from AAPOR’s membership drawn from academic, government, and commercial sectors will judge the papers. Authors should submit the completed paper by electronic submission, preferably in either MS-WORD or PDF format, by February 1, to this year’s associate conference chair:
David W. Moore
The Gallup Organization
609-924-9600
Submissions should include the name or names, telephone number or numbers, and e-mail address or addresses of all authors. A note accompanying the submission should explain why each author of the paper meets the eligibility criteria. Submitters will receive confirmation of the receipt of the paper and will be notified by March 15 of the committee’s
decision.
For more information visit AAPOR website at www.aapor.com.
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