Call for nominations
The Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics, AFinLA, is inviting nominations for the Afinlandia Award 2025 in the Master’s thesis series and the doctoral thesis series. The awards are presented for theses written in Finland within the field of applied linguistics. We now wish to invite colleagues active in the field of applied linguistics to nominate highly qualified theses for the prize.
We welcome nominations of pro gradu theses completed in institutions of higher education in Finland between August 2024 and June 2025 and for doctoral theses completed between August 2022 and June 2025. Last year, the Afinlandia Award in the MA series was presented to Helmi Siiroinen (University of Tampere) for her thesis “Stylometrisen kirjoittajan analyysin simuloiminen. Tekoälyjen ja ihmiskirjoittajien tyylien erottelusta”.
The Afinlandia-award for a doctoral thesis was last presented in 2022. The award was given to Laura Hekanaho (University of Helsinki) for her thesis: ”Generic and Nonbinary Pronouns: Usage, Acceptability and Attitudes.”
Please find further information about previous award winners here: http://www.afinla.fi/en/afinlandia-awards.
AFinLA is now accepting nominations of high standard theses from all fields of applied linguistics (e.g., language learning, language teaching, language assessment, translation and interpretation, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies) completed in institutions of higher education in Finland. The prize amounts to 300 euros for the master’s thesis and 500 euros for the doctor’s thesis. Winning theses are well written with solid and sound theoretical and methodological approaches, and are, for instance,
● socially relevant
● current
● innovative
● explores new fields of research.
We ask you to send nominations by e-mail with the following attachments (original or scanned) as a PDF:
(1) filled proposal form
(2) the statement/s of the thesis.
Please name the appendices in the following way:
For Master’s thesis
lastnameofthewriter_firstname_MA25_proposal
lastnameofthewriter_firstname_MA25_statement.
For doctoral thesis
lastnameofauthor_firstname_VK25_proposal and
lastnameofauthor_firstname_VK25_statement
The Executive Board and international Editorial Board of AFinLA r.f. select the winning theses and announce the winners at the AFinLA Autumn Symposium, this year to be held in 6.-8.11.2025 in Joensuu. The Award winners will be invited to briefly present their work during the ceremony. For more information about the symposium, please visit:
https://sites.uef.fi/afinla2025/
The deadline for the receipt of nominations is Friday June 20th, 2025.
Please send your nominations to:
saija.merke(at)abo.fi
We are looking forward to receiving many nominations!