The prize, sponsored by Routledge, was launched in collaboration with Performance Studies international at PSi#15 to recognise research excellence at postgraduate level.
It will be awarded annually for a research presentation in the PSi conference academic programme by a graduate student registered at an institution in the host country or region of the conference.*
Contenders will be nominated and the award judged by members of the PSi Board. The winner will receive £150 of Routledge books, plus a year’s subscription to Performance Research. The prize will be presented during the conference, at PSi’s Annual General Meeting, and news of the award posted on the PSi website.
* The choice of country or region will be made in consultation with conference organisers in advance of the event.
This year´s winner
PSi#15 (2009) - Jasna Žmak, University of Zagreb, for her paper ´Dog Day Theatre´
Previous winner
PSi#14 (2008) – Solveig Gade, University of Copenhagen, for her paper ‘A Strategy of the Interregnum: The Environmental, Social and Mental Ecology in the Work of the Centre for Land Use Interpretation’.