Early Career Researcher Paper Competition
The AAG-TLM offers an award to the best early career researcher paper(s) presented at the conference. This award is open to TLM members who have held a PhD for no more than 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria & Deadlines
To be eligible, you must
*Participants are encouraged to submit a single-authored paper. However, we will accept papers co-authored which are accompanied by a short summary of each author’s contribution to the paper on the cover page.
Papers should be submitted to AAG-TLM Chair, Tara Duncan ([email protected]). In the subject heading please write: AAG-TLM Early Career Researcher Award Submission
Please note that the the maximum word count is 10,000 including the abstract, manuscript, tables and references.
Instructions for paper submission
Please also include a Cover Page, with the following information:
The AAG-TLM offers an award to the best early career researcher paper(s) presented at the conference. This award is open to TLM members who have held a PhD for no more than 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria & Deadlines
To be eligible, you must
- held a PhD for no more than 5 years by the AAG’s official abstract submission date
- submit a research paper - Deadline: December 1, 2026
*Participants are encouraged to submit a single-authored paper. However, we will accept papers co-authored which are accompanied by a short summary of each author’s contribution to the paper on the cover page.
Papers should be submitted to AAG-TLM Chair, Tara Duncan ([email protected]). In the subject heading please write: AAG-TLM Early Career Researcher Award Submission
Please note that the the maximum word count is 10,000 including the abstract, manuscript, tables and references.
Instructions for paper submission
Please also include a Cover Page, with the following information:
- Name
- Affiliation
- Paper title
- Date and awarding institution of PhD
- Co-author contributions (if applicable)
Past Early Career Paper Award Recipients
2026
Joshua Merced, Northern Arizona University. Paper title: Merced, Joshua Z. and Scarborough, S. (2025). De‐Pale the Ale: Preserving Black Brewing Culture Through Beer Festivals, Geography Compass, https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.70036
2025
Liling Xu, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. The ‘awkward’ geopolitics of tourism in China’s ‘Arctic’ village. - Published in Tourism Geographies.
Donna James, Western Sydney University, Australia. Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability. Published in Tourism Geographies.
2024
Loretta Bellato, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Regenerative tourism: a conceptual framework leveraging theory and practice - Published in Tourism Geographies.
2023
Eva C. Erdmenger, Department of Leisure and Tourism Geography, University of Trier, Germany. The end of participatory destination governance as we thought to know it - Published in Tourism Geographies
2022
Anna-Maria Walter, PhD, University of Oulu. The self in a time of constant connectivity: Romantic intimacy and the ambiguous promise of mobile phones for young women in Gilgit, northern Pakistan - Published in American Ethnologist
2026
Joshua Merced, Northern Arizona University. Paper title: Merced, Joshua Z. and Scarborough, S. (2025). De‐Pale the Ale: Preserving Black Brewing Culture Through Beer Festivals, Geography Compass, https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.70036
2025
Liling Xu, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. The ‘awkward’ geopolitics of tourism in China’s ‘Arctic’ village. - Published in Tourism Geographies.
Donna James, Western Sydney University, Australia. Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability. Published in Tourism Geographies.
2024
Loretta Bellato, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Regenerative tourism: a conceptual framework leveraging theory and practice - Published in Tourism Geographies.
2023
Eva C. Erdmenger, Department of Leisure and Tourism Geography, University of Trier, Germany. The end of participatory destination governance as we thought to know it - Published in Tourism Geographies
2022
Anna-Maria Walter, PhD, University of Oulu. The self in a time of constant connectivity: Romantic intimacy and the ambiguous promise of mobile phones for young women in Gilgit, northern Pakistan - Published in American Ethnologist
