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It’s my pleasure to be able to announce a number of new CSAA initiatives, as voted by the CSAA executive at our last meeting in August. These three programmes are being introduced on a trial basis for 2006. If they prove successful, we will endeavour to continue them into the future:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>1. The CSAA will present two <B>Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Awards for Best Postgraduate Abstracts</B> to the writers of the two best abstracts submitted by <B>New Zealand</B> postgraduate and / or unwaged scholars to the 2006 annual conference. <BR>
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(The idea of these awards is to go some way toward matching the ARC’s Cultural Research Network Awards, which have proved a great success, but were only open to Australian students. The CSAA awards come with bursaries of $600 AUD each to accommodate the two winners at the Saville for the days of the conference, and to cover some of their expenses). <BR>
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2. The CSAA will set up <B>a bursary of $2800 to assist scholars without institutional support</B> (S.W.I.S. for short) to attend the 2006 annual conference. <BR>
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(The idea of this bursary is primarily to lend some assistance to scholars who have completed their doctorates, and no longer have access to institutional sources of support such as conference funds. We particularly want to assist scholars who are unemployed / under-employed, and in search of academic work).<BR>
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3. The CSAA will establish <B>an award of $1500 for a cultural studies project </B>on a specified theme (to be announced), to be granted as the outcome of a competitive bid.<BR>
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The first two initiatives are open to all scholars whose papers have been accepted at CSAA 2006. An email will be forwarded to all those scholars shortly, with a request for eligible candidates to nominate themselves in the manner there advertised. The terms, guidelines and submission dates for the third initiative will be announced through CSAA-forum in the coming month.<BR>
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Regards<BR>
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Paul<BR>
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Dr. Paul Magee<BR>
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President, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia<BR>
Lecturer in Creative Reading<BR>
School of Creative Communication<BR>
University of Canberra<BR>
ACT 2601<BR>
02 6201 2402<BR>
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Australian Government Higher Education (CRICOS) <BR>
Registered Provider number: #00212K <BR>
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