I would like to call for proposals for
2016 SERVSIG Emerging Service Scholar Award
granted by the digital media lab
at UMass Boston.
SERVSIG and the digital media lab @ UMass Boston are proud to present the Emerging Service Scholar Award. This award recognizes contributions to advancing the study of service research, and will be given annually to honor the contributions of a researcher in the earlier stages of his or her academic career. The SERVSIG Emerging Service Scholar Award launched in 2015 and will be presented at the Frontiers in Services Conference 2016 in Bergen, Norway. The award includes a cash prize and is sponsored by the digital media lab @ UMass Boston.
The award includes a cash prize of $1000, plaque and spotlight features on the SERVSIG website & newsletter and other publications. The award is sponsored by the digital media lab (dml) at UMass Boston. The digital media lab @ UMass Boston is a research center founded in 2014 at the University of Massachusetts Boston under the leadership of Werner Kunz. The mission of the center is to turn the research and intellectual capital of academia on digital marketing, social media, and innovative media services into insights for real-world application. The center fosters a global community of researchers, practitioners, students, and alumni to advance new knowledge, widespread learning, and impactful dialogue on the challenges of a new digital media era.
Last years winner: Elisabeth Brüggen, Clay Voorhees
Eligibility:
Recipients of the SERVSIG Emerging Service Scholar Award should have their doctoral degree up to 10 years prior to the year of the award or be nominated for the award in the last two years. Other eligibility issues:
- Candidates for a SERVSIG Award do not have to be a member of SERVSIG or the AMA to be eligible to win.
- Candidates may be from anywhere in the world. From the beginning, SERVSIG has sought to be globally oriented and globally active.
The SERVSIG thanks the following committee members for their commitment and their work:
- Chair: Sabine Benoit (University of Surrey) <s.benoit@surrey.ac.uk>
- Mike Brady, Florida State University, USA
- Rod Brodie, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Lisa Brüggen, Maastricht University, Netherlands
- Bård Tronvoll, Hedmark Univeristy College, Norway
Selection Process:
Each year, ServSIG appoints a panel of scholars to serve as selection committee. The panel solicits nominations from the service community, and selects the recipient of the award. Criteria to be used to determine contribution include innovation, methodological rigor, and both current impact and future potential to substantially advance service research. Once nominated, the nominee will automatically be included in the consideration set for the award for the subsequent two years without the need for re-nomination.
Nominations:
To nominate a candidate for the award, nominators should provide:
- A nomination letter (two pages maximum length; self-nominations are also acceptable).
- A current vita for the nominated scholar or a web link to an online vita.
- No more than three publications representative of the nominee’s contributions.
- All material needs to be submitted electronically.
If you feel that you would like to nominate somebody for the Emerging Scholar Award please contact the committee chair or send me an email (werner.kunz@umb.edu) no later than March 15th and it will be forwarded to the selection committee.
Best regards and we hope to get your nominations soon!
Werner Kunz
SERVSIG Co-Chair
