CAPI Student Essay Prize

CAPI offers an annual $500 Student Essay Prize for the best paper written on the Asia-Pacific region each year.

Application deadline: 1 May of every year - 4pm Pacific Time

Contact: 250-721-7020 or capi@uvic.ca for more information

Eligibility and Guidelines

The paper must be an original, self-authored work, completed for a UVic course during the current academic year. One paper per person may be submitted.

Papers should be no longer than 50 typed, double-spaced pages, including footnotes. Papers with professor's grading comments will not be accepted; please provide a clean copy.

Terms

Prizes are awarded solely at the discretion of the Selection Committee, whose decisions are final. The Selection Committee evaluates the papers on originality, presentation of argument, appropriate referencing and overall scholarly excellence.

Winning papers may be published by the Centre in its Asia-Pacific Occasional Papers Series and/or posted on CAPI's website. The Centre reserves the right to publish the papers and prize-winners agree to release copyright to the Centre. Previously published papers are not eligible.

Notice of award will be given by May 31 each year.

Application procedures

Please download the application form, save it to your computer, fill it out and send it as an email attachment together with your essay. 

Papers and completed application forms must be submitted to capi@uvic.ca before the application deadline. 

Past winners