New Investigator Award Criteria

Two encouragement awards, the Peter Bladin Award sponsored by the Stroke Society of Australasia and the National Stroke Foundation Award, will be made to the most outstanding presentations by new investigators at each annual scientific meeting.

Past awardees

Application Form for the New Investigator Award  (*PDF 64 Kb)

To be eligible the investigator must:

1. Be undergoing or have completed an accredited post-graduate/undergraduate training program, or commenced full-time academic research, whichever is most recent, no more than 5 years before the closing date for abstracts;
2. Be a member of the Stroke Society of Australasia;
3. Be first author on the paper;
4. Have contributed substantially to the design and conduct of the research study;
5. Complete and return the enclosed application form with the abstract, and together with certification of new investigator status.

The applicant must nominate which abstract is to be considered for the award, and only one abstract can be nominated by each applicant. Previous winners of the award are ineligible.

The following criteria will be taken into consideration and scored as follows:

Note for Platform Presentations:

Adhering to your allocated time to allow for questions, and the way you deal with them, form a significant part of the overall assessment.

Note for Poster Presentations:

You should stand by your poster during the period allocated to poster presentations in order to answer questions concerning your work.