Eligibility:

• The first author must be a paid-up student member of the PPA who has not previously won a Cockburn Student Competition Award. Non-PPA students can join the PPA by paying next year’s membership fee by September 30, 2022.
• Students who have completed all terminal degree requirements prior to the abstract submission deadline 7 May 2022 are not eligible.
• Multi-authored papers are acceptable, but a current student must be the lead
• researcher and author.
• The student author must have presented the paper or poster at the 23^rd European PPA Meeting.
• The paper/poster cannot have been published prior to the meeting AND cannot have been presented at any other meeting prior to the PPA Meeting in Vilnius.

Process:

• The Scientific Committee judges will review all of the entry presentations recorded during the meeting and decide on the winners of the competition.
• There will be two cash prizes of $200.00USD awarded: one for the Best Student Podium Presentation and one for the Best Student Poster Presentation. A runner-up prize for the Best Poster Presentation of $100.00 USD will be awarded depending on the number of entrants.

• Winners of the Cockburn Student Prizes will be announced on the PPA website and December Newsletter.

Eligibility:

• You must be a current member of the PPA (non-members can apply by paying next year's annual membership fee).
• You must have a paper accepted for publication in the International Journal of Paleopathology (IJPP) and this paper must have been assigned an ISSN.
• You must have the PhD in hand at the time you paper is accepted for publication in the IJPP. The window of opportunity for this award includes the year your PhD was awarded and the following eight years.
• Papers can be multi-authored, but you must be the first author and principal researcher, and your contribution must be clearly identified.
• You must not have previously won The Jane E Buikstra Early Career award.

Process:

• When you submit to IJPP you will be asked if you would wish you paper to be considered for the Jane E. Buikstra Early Career Award, and if you paper is accepted you will be asked to confirm your choice and confirm your membership of the PPA.
• Once the December issue of IJPP is complete all papers from eligible individuals will be evaluated by competition judges. All categories of paper will be considered. The PPA
• President and IJPP Editor-in-Chief will appoint a panel of judges comprising experts in the field, and members of the PPA Board of Directors to review all eligible papers.
• The winner will be judged to have the greatest contribution to paleopathology; the contribution can be though research findings, theoretical approaches or methodological developments.
• The results of the competition will be announced on the PPA website and in the March Newsletter. The article will be identified as having received the IJPP Early Career Award.
• The winner will receive a cash prize, currently $1000, from Elsevier.

Eligibility:

• You must be a current member of the PPA (non-members can apply by paying next year's annual membership fee).
• You must have presented your paper or poster at either the North American meeting or the European Paleopathology Association meeting or the Paleopathology Association Meeting in South America (PAMINSA).
• You must have a PhD in hand. The window of opportunity for this award includes the year the PhD was awarded and the following eight years.
• Papers can be multi-authored, but you must be the first author and principal researcher and your contribution must be clearly identified.
• The paper must not have been submitted for publication and received a round of reviews.
• The paper or poster cannot have been presented at any other meeting prior to the PPA meeting.
• Results presented in the PhD thesis are excluded from this requirement.
• You must not have previously won an IJPP Early Career Conference Award.

• Two awards will be made annually. One from the North American meeting and the other from either the European Paleopathology Association meeting or the Paleopathology Association Meeting in South America (PAMINSA).
• Competition judges include PPA Board of Directors and the IJPP Associate Editor and/or Advisory Boards. They are appointed by the PPA President and IJPP Editor.
• Competition judges will review all entries. The award is a recognition of work that makes a strong contribution to any aspect of paleopathology.
• The results of the competition will be announced on the PPA website and in the December Newsletter.
• The winners will receive a cash prize, currently $250 each, from Elsevier, and are encouraged to submit the winning papers to IJPP as a research article or case study. If authors submit to IJPP they are also encouraged to enter the Jane E. Buikstra Early Career Award.