ANNOUNCEMENT
RESEARCH STUDENTS STUDY GROUP (DSA)

Poster Competition for Research and Dissertation Students
Theme: Connecting people and places to policy through empirical research
Date: 7th September 2005
Time: 11 am – 5.45pm Venue: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

The increasing complexity of the global phenomenon and recent discourse in development has reiterated the continual need for efficacious development policies. It is therefore imperative to break the fallow grounds in development studies research and to transform the nature of development policy by evolving new spheres that would ensure the connection of people and places to the appropriate policies. The use of rigorous empirical findings could form the basis of development theory and direct new paths for policy. It is in the light of these issues that the Research Students Study Group of the DSA is organising this poster competition to elicit future policy strategies from present ideas and findings.

Participation and Awards Package
The competition is open to all postgraduate research and dissertation students and academics involved in development research. The competition will select a maximum of 25 posters for presentation at the conference. Authors of the selected posters will have one day free conference participation which covers lunch, dinner, special reception and live entertainment in the evening. The DfID is sponsoring the competition and will provide full conference bursaries which include travel cost within UK and Hotel accommodation (2 nights) for the best 5 posters. Interested participants are therefore encouraged to submit an electronic or hard copy of their poster which should be based on their respective theses and must show how their study links theory to policy.

Size of Poster: The size of the poster should be A0 or A1. This is to allow posters to be legible and visible beyond the least distance of distinct vision.

Presentations: Authors of the 25 selected posters will be given 10 minutes to make a power point presentation on their posters at the conference and will have 5 minutes to answer questions and receive direct constructive suggestions and feedback. Discussion of posters will continue during an informal session.

Registration: Participants of are encouraged to register immediately by first completing the attached poster competition entry form and the DSA conference registration forms at the DSA website (www.devstud.org.uk/conference.htm).

Electronic or hard copies of posters should be sent to:

Joseph Assan
Department of Geography, Roxby Building
The University of Liverpool,
Liverpool, L69 7ZT
E-mail: joeassan@liv.ac.uk

Download the application form here.

Submission dead line is 4th August 2005. Participants will be notified of their selection by email.
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