ADSS Prizes

Past Prize Winners

  • Student Paper Prize

    2021

    Awarded to Yanru Chen for ‘Fashion design responses to the increasing digitisation of human interactions and objects’.

    Read a copy of the paper here.

  • Dissertation Prize

    2021

    Awarded to Dr Stephen Muller for ‘OH, EARLY VANISHED FROM A PARENTS EYE’: ‘Childness’ and child memorialisation in the South Australian cemetery, 1836-2018 CE’, submitted as part of PhD Archaeology, Flinders University.

    Read an outline of the dissertation here.

  • Creative Work

    2022

    Awarded to Zhaoxi Zheng for his work ‘Children’s Imaginative Accounts about Death’.

    A video presentation of his work can be accessed here.

    2021

    Awarded to Teya Griff, Yanru Chen, Christine Georgopoulos, Carys Norwood and Lena Rowe for their collective work ‘Preserves’.

    A video presentation of their work can be accessed here.

ADSS Essay Prize (Unpublished essays)

 

The Australian Death Studies Society Student Paper Prize was established with the dual goals of recognising outstanding emerging scholars in the interdisciplinary field of death studies and fostering future death studies research. 

The Prize is awarded to an unpublished paper that best exemplifies high-quality scholarship about dying, death and disposal, within Australia or by an Australian scholar.  

Eligible submissions must be no more than 4,000 words and have been submitted as part of a dissertation (MPhil, PhD, honors), or for assessment as part of the applicant’s studies in the previous calendar year.

A panel of established death studies experts will assess submissions on the basis of their originality, academic rigor, and sophistication of writing. The winning applicant will be awarded a $200 prize and a year’s membership to the ADSS. The panel may choose not to award the prize in any given year. 

Applicants can self-nominate with the support of their supervisor/ assessor or can be nominated by their supervisor/ assessor. Supervisors can each nominate a maximum of one applicant per prize per calendar year.

Submissions should be sent to info@deathstudies.org by 31st March 2024. Submissions should include:

  • A copy of the paper

  • A cover letter describing the nature of the work and the course/degree it was submitted for

  •  A letter of support from the supervisor/ assessor

ADSS Paper Prize (Published Papers)

 

The Australian Death Studies Society Published Paper Prize was established to recognise outstanding research in the interdisciplinary field of death studies. 

The Prize is awarded to journal article or book chapter, published in a peer-reviewed academic outlet, that best exemplifies high-quality scholarship about dying, death and disposal, within Australia or by an Australian scholar.  

Eligible submissions must have been published within the previous calendar year.

A panel of established death studies experts will assess submissions on the basis of their originality, academic rigor, and sophistication of writing. The winning applicant will be awarded a $200 prize and a year’s membership to the ADSS. The panel may choose not to award the prize in any given year.  

Applicants can self-nominate or can be nominated by a colleague.  Members can each nominate a maximum of one applicant per prize per calendar year.

Applications should be sent to info@deathstudies.org by 31st March 2024. Submissions should include:

  • A copy of the published paper

ADSS Creative Work Prize

 

The Australian Death Studies Society Creative Work Prize was established in 2021 with the dual goals of recognising creative and non-traditional scholarly contributions to the interdisciplinary field of death studies and fostering future death studies research.

The Prize is awarded to the creative or non-traditional scholarly contribution that best exemplifies high-quality scholarship about dying, death and disposal, within Australia or by an Australian scholar.  

Eligible submissions must be an original creative work and have been submitted for assessment as part of the applicant’s university studies (at any level) in the past calendar year. Original works considered for the award may be 1) Visual Artwork, 2) Design/Architectural work, and 3) non-fiction textual works.

  1. Visual Artworks: Research outputs such as a fine art and crafts work, diagram, map, photographic image, sculpture or installation.

  2. Design/ Architectural work: Realised, constructed, fabricated or unrealised building and design projects. 'Unrealised' projects must have an output that provides evidence of the research involved

  3. Non-fiction Textual work: Written creative work that is not eligible to be submitted as a book or journal article, such as a novel or art review.

A panel of established death studies experts will assess submissions on the basis of their originality, academic rigor, and sophistication. The winning applicant will be awarded a $200 prize and a year’s membership to the ADSS. The panel may choose not to award the prize in any given year. 

Applicants can self-nominate with the support of their supervisor or can be nominated by their supervisor. Supervisors can each nominate a maximum of one applicant per prize per calendar year.

Applications should be sent to info@deathstudies.org by 31st March 2024. Submissions should include: 

  • An abstract describing the work (maximum 750 characters)

  • Images of work / Project Portfolio which include your research and creative making processes as well as the resolved final work. Pdf files only (15 pages max)

  • A digital rendering of the work (e.g. a link to a video or portfolio of images) 

  •  A cover letter describing the nature of the work and the course/degree for which it was submitted

  • A letter of support from the supervisor/ assessor