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Last years winner: Elisabeth Br\u00fcggen, Clay Voorhees<\/p><\/div>\n Eligibility:<\/strong><\/p>\n Recipients of the SERVSIG Emerging Service Scholar Award<\/em><\/strong> 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:<\/p>\n The SERVSIG thanks the following committee members for their commitment and their work:<\/p>\n Selection Process:<\/strong><\/p>\n Each year, ServSIG appoints a panel of scholars to serve as selection committee.\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n Nominations:<\/strong><\/p>\n To nominate a candidate for the award, nominators should provide:<\/p>\n If you feel that you would like to nominate\u00a0somebody for the\u00a0Emerging Scholar Award\u00a0please contact the committee chair or send me an email (werner.kunz@umb.edu<\/a>) no later than March 15th<\/strong> and it will be forwarded to the selection committee.<\/p>\n Best regards and we hope to get your nominations\u00a0soon!<\/p>\n![\"Services-SIG-Logo2\"](\"http:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Services-SIG-Logo21.jpg\"){kind=logo}
SERVSIG<\/strong>\u00a0and the digital media lab @ UMass Boston<\/strong>\u00a0are proud to present\u00a0the\u00a0Emerging Service Scholar Award<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0This 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.\u00a0The SERVSIG\u00a0Emerging Service Scholar Award launched in 2015 and will be presented at the\u00a0Frontiers in Services Conference 2016<\/a> in Bergen, Norway.\u00a0The award includes a cash prize and is sponsored by the digital media lab\u00a0@ UMass Boston.<\/p>\n![\"Untitled\"](\"http:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Untitled.png\")
<\/a>The award\u00a0includes a cash prize\u00a0of $1000, plaque<\/strong> and spotlight features<\/strong> on the SERVSIG website & newsletter\u00a0and other publications. The award is sponsored by the digital media lab\u00a0(dml) at UMass Boston. The\u00a0digital media lab @ UMass Boston <\/strong>is a research center founded in 2014 at the University of Massachusetts Boston under the leadership of Werner Kunz<\/em>.\u00a0The mission of the center\u00a0is 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\u00a0era.<\/p>\n![\"Lerzan](\"http:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/FrontiersInService_2457302_1-300x199.jpg\")
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