2023 Award for Excellence in Resilience Research for Global Development Challenges

Description

The concept of resilience has inspired approaches for meeting critical development goals that reduce the negative outcomes created by poverty, conflict, economic shocks, and global environmental change. The pursuit of being resilience has helped identify strategies to build capacities to cope, adapt, and transform in the face of shocks and stresses.

Researchers at the University of Arizona are advancing innovative theories, methods, and insights that have central importance to pressing development challenges. This award recognizes the thought leadership at the UAz by honoring the work of three outstanding researchers who are contributing to the field of resilience, as demonstrated by the production of impactful published work.

Award Categories

One award will be offered each to:

1. Faculty or researcher (tenure track, career track, or continuing eligibility/status)
2. Early career researcher (who is in a tenure track, career track, or continuing status and is within 5 years of receiving a doctoral degree)
3. Graduate student researcher

Award

Winners of this award will receive a $1,000 honorarium to give a 15-minute public talk. The presentation will be around the end of April and details will be finalized in collaboration with awardees.

Evaluation Criteria

Nominations will be evaluated based on:

1. The significance of the published work’s implications for resilience scholarship and/or practice to development challenges. While it is not required for the work to have taken place internationally or at a global scale, the work must demonstrate implications for regions beyond a single study site.
2. The potential for impact of the work on policy and decision-making.
3. The broad importance of the work to the international development community.

Nominations will be evaluated by a multi-person review committee.

Eligibility Requirements

1. The work must be published as a peer-reviewed article, a report delivered to the funder or client, a book chapter, or another type that is published on a formally recognized platform.
2. Nominations can be of individuals who were the lead-author or a co-author.
3. Eligible nominees must be affiliated with the UAz as a faculty, research staff, or graduate student.
4. The publication must have been published within the last 3 years.
5. Early career researchers are defined as researchers who completed their doctoral studies within the last 5 years.
6. Nominees must be willing and able to present their work at a public talk towards the end of April. The exact date, time, location, and format (hybrid or in-person) of the talk will be arranged by the award committee in conversation with the winners.

Nomination Format

Please submit the following information as a single PDF document by March 20th, 2023 at 5:00pm MST. Nomination documents should be single-spaced, in 11-point Arial font with 1-inch margins and submitted as a pdf file.

1. Nomination Document with the following information:
   • Name, contact information, and University affiliation of the researcher being nominated.
   • Indication of which category the nominee pertains to: Faculty Researcher, Early Career Researcher, or Graduate Student Researcher.
   • Name, contact information, and University affiliation of the nominator (self-nominations are permitted).
   • Full citation of the published work that is the basis for the nomination.
   • Nomination Justification: 200-400 words on the significance, impact, and broader importance of the published work. Judges will evaluate each published work based on the criteria previously listed.
2. A PDF copy of the published work that is the basis for the researcher’s nomination.

Submission Process

Please email materials in one PDF file with the subject "Resilience Research Award" to Sarah Clark and Zack Guido.