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. A third award, the Victorian Stroke Clinical Network Poster Prize is being sponsored by the Victorian Stroke Clinical Network. Application for all awards must be made at the time of abstract submission to the annual scientific meeting. Send your completed application to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it before the abstract submission deadline of 2 May 2010.
Application Form for the New Investigator Award PDF 63.64 kB
To be eligible the investigator must:
- 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;
- Be a member of the Stroke Society of Australasia;
- Be first author on the paper;
- Have contributed substantially to the design and conduct of the research study;
- 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 a Peter Bladin Award or National Stroke Foundation Award are ineligible to apply for another award. Previous winners of the poster award are eligible to re-apply for the New Investigator Awards.
The following criteria will be taken into consideration and scored as follows:
- Innovation and Originality (1)
- Applicability to Meeting (1)
- Results / Scientific Merit (2)
- Presentation (including adherence to allocated time) (2)
- Response to questions (3)
- Overall Style (1)
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.
