Student Paper Competition

 

2024 PAPOR Student Paper Competition

The Pacific Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (PAPOR) announces the opening of its annual student paper competition. We welcome entries from students and early-career professionals that employ surveys and opinion research in any discipline including political science, communications, psychology, sociology, public policy, and marketing. In this opportunity, student entrants will network with industry professionals, strengthen their resumes for job and graduate school applications, and compete to win a cash award and travel to the annual PAPOR conference.

Eligible papers should focus on survey methods, public opinion, and market research, be authored by undergraduate and graduate students currently attending or recently graduated from colleges and universities in PAPOR’s geographic region and be no more than thirty pages.

Students can ask questions and submit papers by email to studentpaper@papor.org. The entries will be judged by a panel of survey professionals and public opinion researchers from PAPOR’s executive council. If you are interested, you can learn more about the student paper competition on our website papor.org.

Student Paper Awards

First Place Winner:

  • Cash award
  • Up to $500 travel award to attend the annual PAPOR conference
  • PAPOR conference registration, recognition in the program
  • Opportunity to present the research at the conference
  • Honorary one-year membership to PAPOR
  • Recognition in the PAPOR Trail Newsletter

Second Place Winner:

  • PAPOR conference registration, recognition in the program
  • Opportunity to present the research at the conference
  • Honorary one-year membership to PAPOR
  • Recognition in the PAPOR Trail Newsletter

2024 Student Paper Competition Winner

Zhaowen Guo (University of Washington), When Monitoring Meets Morality: How Framing Affects Public Support for Government Surveillance

 

Past Student Paper Award Winners

2023 Winner

First Place Winner: Justine Orgel (University of Pennsylvania), Do Misconceptions about Abortion’s Legal Status in One’s State Impact Opinions on State Policy?

2022 Winners

First Place Winners: Nicolas Witts and Morgan Wack (University of Washington), To the Loser goes the Spoils: Examining the Effects of Illegitimate Election Victories in the Digital Age

Runner-up: Alexandria Albers (University of Montana), Routine and COVID-19 Childhood Vaccination Practices and Parental Hesitancy Barriers Among Rural and Urban Primary Care Providers

2021 Winner

First Place Winner: Joseph Skylar White (University of Denver), Google Search Prediction and Message-Testing

2020 Winners

First Place Winner: Rafiuddin Najam (Oregon State University), Financing of Public Higher Education in Afghanistan: Public Opinion and Information Effects

Runner-up: Christian Law (California Lutheran University), Abuse of Trust? The Influence of College Students’ Race and Major on Perceptions of Police

2019 Winners

First Place Winner: Anna Boch (Stanford University), Towards a more “European” Tolerance? Attitudes on Civil Liberties Using the General Social Survey, 1996-2018

Runner-up: Michele Zamora (UC Santa Barbara), The Kids Are Alright: Connective Identity and the Youth Climate Movement

2018 Winners

First Place Winner: Rebecca Hofstein Grady (University of California, Irvine), When only the other side is to blame: Order effects and motivated reasoning in judgments of free speech, inciting violence, and sexual assault allegations

Runner-up: Henry Noone (Southern Oregon University), Measuring Attitudes Towards National Security Whistleblowers

2017 Winners

First Place Winner: Rebecca Hofstein Grady (University of California, Irvine), What is the best size for matrix-style questions in online surveys?

Runner-up: Heather Hisako Kitada (Oregon State University), The Implications of Functional Form Choice on Model Misspecification in Longitudinal Survey Mode Adjustments and Consideration of Underlying Trend

 

If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact the PAPOR Student Paper Competition Chair.

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