Are you a current student carrying out health or wellbeing-related research at the University of Otago, \u014ct\u0101kou Whakaihu Waka, withan interest in communicating your science to a wider audience?<\/p>\n
Then the Otago Medical School Research Society Science Writing Prize is for you!<\/p>\n
We want you, in no more than 800 words<\/strong>, to tell us why your research Tell us about your research and why it is important. Why does it interest you? Why should The winning article will be published by the Otago Daily Times. The winner will receive a $500 <\/strong>cash prize sponsored by the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago. The runner up will receive a $250<\/strong> prize sponsored by Kainic Medical Communications.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Judging criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n The judging criteria will be: The article must be based on the research you are doing or have done as part of your The piece should be aimed at a non-specialist audience; written at a level that an interested <\/p>\n The rules<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 The competition is open to all undergraduate or postgraduate students carrying out \u2022 Articles should be emailed to ewan.kennedy@otago.ac.nz<\/strong> with the subject line \u201cOMSRS Are you a current student carrying out health or wellbeing-related research at the University of Otago, \u014ct\u0101kou Whakaihu Waka, withan interest in communicating your science to a wider audience? Then the Otago Medical School Research Society Science Writing Prize is for you! We want you, in no more than 800 words, to tell us why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45025,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmatters in a way that would interest a non-scientific audience.<\/p>\n
\nit interest the reader?<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Does the article answer the question why does my research matter?
\n\u2022 Does the article explain the writer\u2019s research in a way that is easy to understand?
\n\u2022 Is it a compelling read?<\/p>\n
\ndegree, diploma or summer project. This could be on the whole of the project or on one
\naspect, but it should not be a general review of the area.<\/p>\n
\nmember of the public could understand while conveying the significance of your research or
\nkey issues.<\/p>\n
\nhealth-related research currently enrolled at the University of Otago. Past winners in this
\ncompetition are not eligible to compete.
\n\u2022 One entry per author, and only one author per entry, submitted via the student\u2019s
\nUniversity email address.
\n\u2022 The article should be no more than 800 words<\/strong>. Pieces with more than 800 words will be
\ndeclined.
\n\u2022 A coversheet should include the title of your article, your name, email address,
\nDepartment\/School in which you are studying and your degree, a contact telephone
\nnumber, and word count of your piece. Please use 12-point font without templates for
\nthe cover sheet.
\n\u2022 The article should be text only: no diagrams or tables should be included. Please use a
\n12-point font and double line spacing. A reference list is not necessary.
\n\u2022 Entries close at 5pm on Friday 28th of August, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\nScience Writing Submission\u201d. Articles should be attached and in the \u201c.doc\u201d or \u201c.docx\u201d file
\nformat.
\n\u2022 The judges\u2019 decision will be final.
\n\u2022 The winner will be declared in the week of the 28th of September at an informal
\nafternoon tea celebration (details to follow)
\n\u2022 Any questions? Contact: Dr Ewan Kennedy (ewan.kennedy@otago.ac.nz<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"