Best Postgraduate Student Paper Awards

AIRAANZ Best Postgraduate Student Paper Award

The Best Postgraduate Student Paper Award is awarded to a current postgraduate research student, or one who has completed their studies within the 12 months prior to 1 July in the year preceding each AIRAANZ conference. To be eligible a postgraduate student will be required to submit an article on a topic relating to industrial/employment relations and/or work (broadly conceived) which has been accepted for publication in an academic journal in the 12 months preceding the eligibility date (within the 12 months prior to 1 July in the year preceding each AIRAANZ conference). Only one version of the paper may be submitted (for example, a candidate may not nominate a soft copy manuscript and resubmit the same manuscript once published in hard copy).

Nominations for the award must be submitted by 10 January 2025. The Award will be determined by a judging panel nominated by the AIRAANZ Executive Committee, and the nominees will be notified as soon as possible after the October deadline.

The awardee will receive AUD$1000, which will come from AIRAANZ funds. They will be encouraged to attend the next AIRAANZ conference to receive their award and, if appropriate, to present their paper. Both the awardee and their principal supervisor will be offered a complementary registration to that conference.

Click the link below for the nomination form.

https://www.airaanz.org/airaanz-best-postgraduate-student-paper-award-nomination

2025 Best Postgraduate Student Paper Award (two recipients)

Jiayi (Vivian) Sun

‘While strictly speaking it is illegal, you can work as long as you want’: How platform facades enable gig workers to comply with, bend and break migration rules

Talara Lee

‘Promise and peril: gender, technology, and the future of work in the legal profession’