Berwyn Clayton AveTRA journal article of the year |
The VET Journal Article of the Year was in 2021 named in honor of Professor Berwyn Clayton. Berwyn was a long standing and distinguished VET researcher but also over many years the joint editor of the International Journal of Training Research (ITJR). The aim of the award is to recognise excellent scholarship in VET research, and to help to promote VET research in general and the work of AVETRA in supporting this. The 2022 Journal Article of the Year was awarded to: Dr Katrin Kaufmann-Kuchta and Dr Elisabeth Reichart “Useful drawers or oversimplification? Realm and aptitude of the Varieties of Capitalism approach in international comparison of investment patterns in vocational adult education” The Award was announced at the AVETRA 2022 conference on April 28/29 for papers published the previous year. The winner is awarded a certificate and a plaque. |
Submissions of no more than one of an author’s journal articles to the AVETRA Secretariat by Friday 11 March 2022 for judging to take place during March. The Award will be presented at the 2022 AVETRA Annual Conference to be held on 28/29 April. The entry is to be accompanied by a cover sheet and the cover sheet will be dated by the secretariat on receipt, as well as current CVs of the author/s.
Entrants must provide an e-copy of the paper as approved for publication (eg from the journal web site, or scanned copy of hard copy, or failing that from a university’s institutional repository). This is the responsibility of the author.
For joint-authored papers, only the first author may submit the paper and must get signatures or emails from other authors to agree to submission. These permissions must be submitted with the paper.
No two authors can submit separate papers from the same research project.
For nominations made by the third parties, the nominator must get signatures or emails from the authors to agree to submission. These permissions must be submitted with the paper.
A chair of the process (who will be an AVETRA Executive member) and a panel of Executive members will be nominated by AVETRA Executive. Extra members may be co-opted if necessary.
Judges may not enter papers in the competition and may not work in the same institution as any of the candidates, may not be involved in the relevant research project or in other current research collaborations, or have other conflicts of interest (eg relative or PhD supervisor).
The chair establishes prima facie eligibility of papers.
Judges complete an evaluation form for each paper and the Chair collates the results and forwards a recommendation to the AVETRA Officers for approval.
The decision of the panel is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Feedback is not given to authors.
AVETRA reserves the right not to make an award if none of the applications received meets the criteria for award.
2017 Claire Rasmussen, Federation University
2015 Sarojni Choy, Griffith University
2013 Hugh Guthrie
2012 Erica Smith
2010 Kevin Heys (TAFE NSW)
2008 Peter Kell (University of Wollongong)
2006 Karen Whittingham (TAFE NSW)
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