The Max Crawford Medal is Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the Humanities. It is presented annually to an early-career scholar working and publishing in the humanities, whose publications contribute towards an understanding of their discipline.

Criteria

• Quality and Impact: The Nominee’s work must be both of high quality, and deep impact. It must be academically sound and thoroughly researched and have contributed to a deeper understanding of a humanities discipline.
• Enrichment of Cultural Life: The Nominee’s work must have contributed to the enrichment of the cultural life of Australia or have the potential to do so.
• Media/Genre: The Nominee’s work can exist in any form, as long as it fulfils the selection criteria. It could be a monograph, a television or radio documentary, a series of journal articles, a scholarly website, or a film of academic merit, etc.
• Goal Focused: The Nominee’s work must focus specifically on a particular research goal within the wider discipline. For example, for a series of journal articles to meet this criterion, they must all have in their purpose the development and/or conclusion of a specific path of research in a humanities discipline.

Eligibility

• The award is based on a nomination process and nominations will be accepted by Fellows and non-Fellows. The Nominator must obtain the permission of the Nominee before nomination. Self-nominations are not accepted. 
• Nominees must be Citizens or Permanent Residents of Australia who are residing in Australia at the time of nomination.
• Nominees must be in the early stages of their careers, which will be determined, inter-alia, by how recently a PhD was conferred. In normal circumstances it should have been conferred no more than five years prior to the closing date for nominations.  
• Nominees who have received their PhD more than five years ago but who can demonstrate a significant, commensurate period of career interruption (such as maternity or parental leave, carer’s responsibility, illness, unemployment, or non-research employment) may be considered eligible. This includes disruptions caused by COVID-19. A justification for the career interruption must be submitted as part of the proposal.

• Phone: (02) 6189 6982
• Email: grants@humanities.org.au