AASW Senior Social Work Researcher of the Year Award 2025

Nomination Form

This award will recognise social work research excellence from an experienced researcher during the period 01 July 2024 to 30 June 2025.

Who can be nominated?

Both academic and practice-based researchers are encouraged to nominate.

An experienced researcher in social work, with a minimum of five years of research experience.

Nominees must be a current financial member of the AASW and be of good standing with the AASW.

Who can nominate a nominee?

Self-nomination and third-party nominations will be considered. In the case of third-party nominations, we recommend engaging the nominee directly in the process. Please ensure you advise the nominee that they have been nominated for an award so that they can plan to be at the Awards presentation.

Terms and Conditions

Nominations will be made through a “call for nominations” announced by the AASW in August 2025.

An expression of interest portfolio should be submitted, and include:

Two letters of support
A curriculum vitae
A statement of claims of no more than 1000 words that addresses the following criteria:

Impact – demonstrated application of the research to social work education, policy or practice and evidence of dissemination and uptake of the research.
Significance – demonstrated contribution of rigorous research to advancing knowledge in social work education, policy or practice.
Leadership – demonstrated record of collaborative, interdisciplinary or community-engaged research as well as the provision of mentoring/capacity-building in social work research.
Overall contribution and recognition – demonstrated sustained contribution over several years and future potential and any history of awards, honours or invitations, editorial roles etc.

Nominations must be submitted through the AASW’s designated submission process.

The Award Committee will consider all nominations based on written responses to the criteria outlined below. The Award Committee reserves the right to reject nominations that either:

Do not meet one of the criteria or;
Exceed the specified word limit or;
Are not received by the submission deadline.

Please complete the nomination form and submit it using our online submission process by 4:00pm AEST on Friday 26 September 2025.

Nomination Form

Please complete the nomination form and submit using our online submission process by no later than 4:00pm AEST Friday 26 September 2025.

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Nominee First Name

Nominee Last Name

Is this nomination a:

Self nominationThird-party nomination

Self nomination

Contact number

Branch

Third-party nomination

Nominator First Name

Nominator Last Name

Relationship to Nominee

Current position and title

Employer/organisation

Contact number

If you have any questions regarding the nomination, please contact us via email at

branchservices@aasw.asn.au.

To support the criteria responses and provide supporting evidence, you may upload a maximum of ten single-page files at the end of this form. Acceptable formats are Word, PDF and JPEG and the maximum size for each file is 1 Mb.

Criteria

1. Two letters of support

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From:

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2. Curriculum Vitae

3. Statement of claims addressing:
a) Impact
b) Significance
c) Leadership
d) Overall contribution and recognition

(Maximum word limit: 1000)

Additional required information

Provide a 100-word overview that describes the nominee, including their current role. This short profile may be used for promotional purposes or at the Awards presentation.
(Maximum word limit: 100)

Provide a colour head and shoulder photograph of the nominee on a blank background. The image should be high resolution (preferably 300 dpi, no less than 2 Mb image in .JPG format) so that it can be used for print media and other promotions.

Additional attachments
To support the criteria responses and provide supporting evidence, you may upload a maximum of ten single-page files. Acceptable formats are Word, PDF and JPEG and the maximum size for each file is 1 Mb.

Nomination closing date

Nominations must be submitted by 4:00pm AEST on Friday 26 September 2025.

Nominations received after the closing date will not be considered.