VAPAP Call for Award Submissions
The Vietnam-America Association for Public Affairs and Policy (VAPAP) and Vietnam Initiative (VNi) are excited to announce the call for submissions for our inaugural research awards. These awards are funded by the University of Iowa School of Planning and Public Affairs and Public Policy Center (through the VAPAP) and Prof. Anh Tran, Indiana University through VNi. The awards are to promote and recognize high-quality research among students and emerging scholars who are of Vietnamese origin or who study Vietnam’s public affairs and policies. The deadline for all award submissions is by the end of Nov 30, 2022 in an applicant’s respective time zone. Announcement of the awardees will be made about a month after the deadline. Award winners are expected to make a presentation of their winning papers to publicly invited audience (more information will be sent to the winners).
1. Best Student Paper Award
Two awards, $100 each award with an engraved plaque.
Who: Three groups of applicants are eligible:
1/ Masters or Ph.D. students who are studying in Vietnam
2/ Masters or Ph.D. students of Vietnamese origin in a US-based school of public administration, public affairs, or public policy
3/ Non-Vietnamese Masters or Ph.D. students in a US-based school of public administration, public affairs, or public policy
What: An eligible paper must
+ be written in English,
+ be (co-)authored by an applicant,
+ fall within at least one of the public affairs specialties categorized by the U.S. News and World Report, namely
Environmental Policy and Management
Health Policy and Management
Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Information and Technology Management
International Global Policy and Administration
Local Government Management Nonprofit Management
Public Finance and Budgeting
Public Management and Leadership
Public Policy Analysis
Social Policy
Urban Policy
+ focus on Vietnam for Group 3 applicants.
In addition, we prefer working papers (not published yet) to published papers. We still consider papers that were accepted for publication in an academic journal after Aug 1, 2022. We strongly encourage applicants with papers that employ quantitative methods to submit. Note that only one paper per eligible author is allowed.
How: Please send your paper (with a title page including the title, all author names, emails, institutional affiliations, and an abstract) to vapap.vi.awards@gmail.com. Subject line: Best Student Paper Award.
2. Best Emerging Scholar Paper Award
Two awards, $150 each award with an engraved plaque.
Who: Three groups of applicants are eligible:
1/ Lecturers/professors who are within six years (by end of 2022) since their Ph.D. graduation and are working in an academic or research institution in Vietnam
2/ Assistant-level professors of Vietnamese origin in a US-based school of public administration, public affairs, or public policy
3/ Non-Vietnamese assistant-level professors in a US-based school of public administration, public affairs, or public policy
What: An eligible paper must
+ be written in English,
+ be (co-)authored by an applicant,
+ fall within at least one of the public affairs specialties published by the U.S. News and World Report, namely
Environmental Policy and Management
Health Policy and Management
Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Information and Technology Management
International Global Policy and Administration
Local Government Management Nonprofit Management
Public Finance and Budgeting
Public Management and Leadership
Public Policy Analysis
Social Policy
Urban Policy
+ focus on Vietnam for Group 3 applicants.
In addition, we prefer working papers (not published yet) to published papers. We still consider papers that were accepted for publication in an academic journal after Aug 1, 2022. We strongly encourage applicants with papers that employ quantitative methods to submit. Note that only one paper per eligible author is allowed.
How: Please send your paper (with a title page including the title, all author names, emails, institutional affiliations, and an abstract) to vapap.vi.awards@gmail.com. Subject line: Best Emerging Scholar Paper Award.