Publications Grant

Any student, part-time or full-time, enrolled in a postgraduate degree by research, who can show evidence that they have had an academic work published and accepted into the Research Publications System: Audited List will receive a grant from the School of:

• $500 for a first publication

• $250 for any succeeding publication.

The aim of the grant is to reward excellent research, to encourage postgraduates to publish during, or as soon as possible after, their candidature, and to support their further research work. Graduates who have submitted and passed will still be entitled to receive the grant up to 12 months after lodging their Final Version.

From 1 January 2010 the only criteria for receiving a Postgraduate Publications Grant is that the research has appeared on the Research Publication System: Audited List for 2009, and then subsequent years.

The School defines an ‘academic work’ as any publication that may be submitted as an item counting as at least one point in the annual DIISR publications audit. The main categories then are: academic monographs published by an academic or good commercial publisher (A1); articles published in a fully refereed academic journal (hard copy or web-based) (C1); book chapters in collections published by an academic or good commercial publisher (B1). If in doubt, consult the Postgraduate Co-ordinator. All publications MUST have a UWA by-line.

• Grants are payable for categories A.1 (book), B.1 (chapter) and C.1 (refereed article) only.
• Payouts will occur only once a year, on completion of the annual Publications Audit.
• Applicants to this award will not be entitled to win both this grant and a Dean's Postgraduate Award for the same publication (including the same article published in different publications, or different chapters drawn from the same book). In the event of a student subsequently receiving a Dean's Postgraduate Award, the publications grant received from the School must be refunded to the School.

An application form with proof of publication is to be presented to the Postgraduate Co-ordinator before the award can be claimed. Acceptable proofs would include:

• listing on the annual School publications audit;
• a photocopy of the relevant title page(s) and publication details

On approval of the Postgraduate Co-ordinator, the Postgraduate Administration Officer will arrange payment of the grant. If will normally be expected that six months after the award of the grant, the grentee will submit a half-page report to the Postgraduate Co-ordinator outlining how the grant was used to support their research.

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