NZ Politics Postgraduate Conference

Paper Prize

Details

This prize originated in 2009 due to the generosity of Professor Raymond Miller (University of Auckland) who funded the prize from the royalties received for his edited volume New Zealand Government and Politics. The new editors of the book, Professor Janine Hayward (Otago University), Dr Lara Greaves (Auckland) and Dr Claire Timperley (Victoria University) are very pleased to continue this tradition.

The Convenor of the NZPSA New Zealand Politics Network will appoint a panel of judges to receive nominations and award the prize. The panel's decision will be final. The prize is intended to be received by only one student, but it can be shared by one or more students on the recommendation of the panel.

To apply

Those interested must provide via email an electronic file in Microsoft Word that includes the title of the paper, an abstract, paper and the author's name and affiliation, along with evidence that the paper has been accepted by the NZPSA Conference organisers. Please email these documents by 5pm Friday 1st of November 2024 to the Convenor of the Aotearoa New Zealand Politics Network, Prof. Janine Hayward.

Postgraduates should think about the paper as the first step toward a future journal submission. It will not be expected at this point that it is at the standard of a journal submission. All submitted papers will therefore be reviewed by the judging panel and constructive suggestions for improvement in terms of a potential publication will be provided.

Note that dissertations are not accepted. Papers should be presented at the conference in the year of submission, be approximately 6000 words and will not be accepted if they are over 8000 words excluding the abstract, references and tables. (Note that submissions to Political Science are a maximum of 7500 words). Papers can be co-authored with other students, but they must be fully written by the student(s) making the submission: papers co-authored with supervisors or other staff members are excluded from consideration. If only data from staff is included – as is the norm in political psychology and hence the convention is also to those staff member's names –  then the paper will be accepted if the judges are assured the student wrote the paper themselves.

Winners

2023: Will Dreyer (Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington): "Viscosity potential of legislative scrutiny in New Zealand subject select committees 1996-2020."

2022: Yu Du (University of Auckland): "We want more than descriptive representation: Chinese New Zealanders’ evolved demands through political participation"

2021: Shirin Brown (Auckland University of Technology)

2019: Joshua Ferrer (University of Otago): "The Effects of Proportional Representation on Election Lawmaking in New Zealand"

2018: Shirin Brown (Auckland University of Technology): "Representation and Responsibility - Uh ... What About the Rights of the People Who Represent Us?"

2015: Sylvia Nissen (Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury): "Student political agency and the market university: The case of students’ associations in New Zealand."

2014: Joanne Waitoa (Institute of Development Studies, Massey University): "The Role of Social Media in Māori Political Engagement."

2013: Lara M. Greaves (Department of Psychology, University of Auckland): "Profiling the Fence-Sitters in New Zealand Elections: A Latent Class Model Identifying Distinct Voting Blocs."

2012: Juana Diesing (Department of Politics, University of Otago): "Does social media engage New Zealanders with political news?"

2011: Josh Hercus (Department of Politics, University of Otago): "Youth Voter Turnout in New Zealand: Perceptions and Attitudes of Student Non-Voters in the 2010 Local Body Elections"

2010: Victoria Crockford (Victoria University of Wellington): "'The Personal is Global' - A feminist exploration of the gendered implications of the migration of aged-care workers in Aotearoa-New Zealand"

2009: Joint winners Ashley Murchison (University of Otago): "Political Communication in New Zealand: A Study of Political Party Advertising in the 2008 General Election" and Margaret Joiner (University of Auckland) - "New Zealand First: parallels between the man and the party"

NZPSA Postgraduate Conference

Paper Prize

Details

Since 2007 a prize of $500 has been awarded for the best postgraduate paper at the NZPSA conference, and from 2009 it has been awarded to a paper in any area of political studies other than Aotearoa New Zealand domestic politics. An independent panel of judges will be appointed by the NZPSA President whose decision will be final. The prize is intended to be received by only one student, but it can be shared by one or more students on the recommendation of the panel.

To apply

Those interested need to provide via email an electronic file in Microsoft Word that includes the title of the paper, an abstract, paper and the author's name and affiliation, along with evidence that the paper has been accepted by the NZPSA Conference organisers. Please email these documents by 5pm Friday 1st of November 2024 to the NZPSA President, Jeremy Moses.

Postgraduates should think about the paper as the first step toward a future journal submission. It will not be expected at this point that it is at the standard of a journal submission. All submitted papers will therefore be reviewed by the judging panel and constructive suggestions for improvement in terms of a potential publication will be provided.

Note that dissertations are not accepted. Papers should be presented at the conference in the year of submission, be approximately 6000 words and will not be accepted if they are over 8000 words excluding the abstract, references and tables. Papers can be co-authored with other students, but they must be fully the work of the student(s) making the submission: papers co-authored with supervisors or other staff members are excluded from consideration.

Winners

2022: Tim Lawler (University of Auckland): "U.S. Presidents and the Human Rights of ‘Terrorist Suspects’"

2021: Tim Lawler (University of Auckland): "The Competition between Agency and Structure in Explaining Presidential Behaviour in Human Rights Policy"

2019: Esme Hall (University of Otago): "Uncovering silences in collective memory: how France deals with challenges to Republican nationalism from memories of Algeria"

2018: Sereyvicheth Chunly (University of Auckland): "Liberation Technology? Measuring the Impact of Facebook on Political Participation in Cambodia." 

2016: Jovanie Camacho Espesor (Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury): "Democracy, Insurgency and Hybrid Regime: Interrogating the role of non-government aid organisations in democracy promotion in conflict-ridden communities of Mindanao"

2015: Stuart Weierter (Department of Political Science, University of New South Wales): "John Dewey's insecure Leviathan."

2014: John Gray (National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago): "Help or Hindrance? Analyzing the impact of post-conflict security sector reform."

2013: Maria Tanyag (Discipline of Politics and International Relations, University of Auckland): "Beyond Pinays and Pills: Intersectionality, Coalitions and Policy Change."

2012: Elvira Bobekova (University of Otago): "Rivers of Peace: The Role of Third Parties in Conflict Management of Transboundary River Disputes in Asia and Africa."

2011: Amy Thomson (Massey University): "The ‘Dynamics of Contention’ in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Understanding the origins and failure of the 2009 Post-election Protests"

2010: Joint winners Rosanna Keam (University of Auckland): "The contradiction of 'Mining for poverty alleviation' within a context of water scarcity: a case study of Namibia" and Nobuhiro Ihara (University of Melbourne): "Establishment of ASEAN as a Process of Reassurance by Indonesia"

2009: No entries

2008: Kim Summersby (University of Auckland): "Does Māori Representation Matter?: Māori Substantive Political Representation in Practice"

2007:  Joint winners: David Hall (Victoria University of Wellington): "An Inconvenient Obligation: How Governments Justify the Restriction of Asylum Seekers in Canada and Australia" and Rupert Mackintosh (Victoria University of Wellington): "Now or Later? New Zealand and Australian Climate Change’"