Distinguished Early Career Contributions in Qualitative Inquiry Award
This award recognizes an early career individual who has made outstanding contributions to qualitative research methods. The contribution may be in academic, clinical, government, industry or other settings.
Award recipients attending the APA convention will receive the following:- An honorary one-year membership to Division 5.
- An awards plaque and a place in history.
The annual deadline for this award is the second Monday of December.
Questions about the awards, nominations, and review process can be addressed to Jessica McKenzie. The outcome of the review process will be announced each year in March.
Neither the nominator nor nominee need be a current or former member of either the APA or Division 5. Both self-nominations and nominations of others will be considered.
Nominees must have completed dissertation no earlier than nine years previous.
Nominees must be willing to participate in the process of selecting winners for their awards in the following year.
Nomination materials should include:
- A nomination letter and two additional letters of support that describe the nominee’s major contributions. The letter should comment on the number and quality of publications; the impact of the nominee’s contributions as evidenced by citations, grants, leadership roles, policy involvement, and/or translation of theory to practice; and the nominee’s promise for future contributions to qualitative research methods.
- The nominee’s current curriculum vitae.
- Please send all requested nomination materials to Jessica McKenzie by the second Monday in December. In your email, please use the subject line “APA Division 5 Award Nomination”. In addition, please ask for confirmation that your materials have been received. If you do not receive a confirmation, please follow up to make sure that your materials have been received.
2025
Nisha Gupta
2024
Gabriel Mateo Valez
2023
Roberto Luis Abreu
2022
Zed Zhipeng Gao
2021
Elizabeth Fein & Dennis Wendt
2020
Urmitapa Dutta
2019
Miraj U. Desai
Leeat Granek
2018
Sara McClelland
Jessica Nina Lester
2017
Valerie A. Futch Ehrlich