Win up to £200 and create impact beyond your research!

The PSA Environment Specialist Group is inviting submissions of 1500-word essays on the theme 
The relationship between the environment and quality of life.

This should be understood as a broad topic – your essay can focus on any area of environmental politics research or personal reflection, whether philosophically, theoretically, empirically, or comparatively inspired; addressing the past, the present, or visions of the future; and relating to any scale and level of abstraction you like.

What can you win?

Winners will earn an immediate cash prize as well as getting a rare opportunity to produce research impact this early in your career: With the help of us from the Environment Group as well as the PSA outreach and early careers teams, you will have the chance to turn your essay ideas into professional teaching materials which will be made available through the PSA and used for special taster sessions for A level students interested in studying Politics at University.

Cash prizes:

Winner – £200

Runner-up – £150

Third place – £100 

All entrants will also have the chance to publish their essay in a special postgraduate series on the PSA Environment blog.

How to take part?

To take part, you must be a Masters or PhD student in Environmental Politics or a broadly related subject. Submit your essay of a maximum of 1500 words in length to [email protected] by 20 November 2016, midnight UK time.

The judging panel consists of co-convenors of the Environment Group Marit Hammond and Shashi van de Graaff as well as PSA Programme Development and Outreach Officer Josh Niderost. Winners will be announced on 1 December and notified by email.