Emerging Scholar Awards
The program recognizes both In-Person Emerging Scholars and Online-Only Emerging Scholars, ensuring that researchers unable to travel can still hold a visible and valued role in the conference. Across all formats, Emerging Scholars participate fully in the life of the event: they chair parallel sessions, help guide and sustain discussion, and serve as bridges between established and early-career colleagues from different regions, institutions, and disciplines.
As part of CGScholar’s Event (KX) environment, Emerging Scholars contribute to a wider knowledge experience that links conference activity, community engagement, and publication. Their work is shared through Presentation Pages, digital media, and discussion spaces; they receive structured support to develop their research through the Network’s journals and book imprint; and they gain sustained visibility within the worldwide scholarly community formed around the Research Network.
The Award includes complimentary conference registration and Research Network membership, along with formal recognition during the conference proceedings. Emerging Scholars enter a supportive, scholar-led community in which they can build connections across disciplines, regions, and generations of researchers. Professional development, mentoring encounters, and opportunities for collaboration are integrated into the conference and the Network’s year-round activities.
Award recipients are expected to: attend an orientation and training session (typically the day before the conference), and participate fully throughout the conference by fulfilling assigned chairing and discussion-leading responsibilities.
The Emerging Scholar Award is open to researchers currently enrolled in a graduate studies program or identifying as early-career scholars in a field relevant to the conference. Applicants should demonstrate strong potential for scholarly contribution and a commitment to participating in the collaborative ethos of the Network.
As an Emerging Scholar, I had the opportunity to meet people scientifically active worldwide and gain additional experience on how to organize an International Conference. It was a fantastic experience and I would like to participate again in the future!"
My experience as an emerging scholar was enlightening and full of surprises. It was my first time as a moderator, as a scholar and as a presenter too, so I was hoping everything to be successful. I had the chance to attend interesting presentations about topics that otherwise I wouldn't come across so easily from international academics and have in-depth conversations that gave me food for thought. My presentation was also a highlight for me and the questions following, improved my perspective and fulfilled my initial goal, to communicate my research and for this topic to be understood. Overall, I made new friends, and new connections had an amazing first international academic conference, and added a little bit of more faith in my skills and work."
Being an emerging scholar helps to democratize knowledge by showcasing research from all around the globe to peers that could come from anywhere. The plurality of participants show how intertwined social sciences are, not just in our methods, but in the realities in which they are applied as well. Therefore, it is not just a platform but an experience where new perspectives could be open to more global research."