Call for nominations
This year, the Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics (AFinLA) gives out the Afinlandia Award in the Master’s thesis series. AFinLA invites 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 2025 and June 2026.
Last year, the Afinlandia Award in the MA series was presented to Reetta Viljaharju (University of Jyväskylä) for their thesis Saamen kielen elvytyksestä sen haltuunottoon
– Autobiografinen tutkimus kielellisten käännekohtien vaikutuksesta identiteettiin.
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. The winning thesis is well written with solid and sound theoretical and methodological approaches, and is, 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_MA26_proposal
lastnameofthewriter_firstname_MA26_statement.
AFinLA Executive Board selects the winning thesis and announces the winner at the AFinLA Autumn Symposium, this year to be held in 12.-14.11.2026 in Oulu. The Award winner will be invited to briefly present their work during the ceremony. For more information about the symposium, please visit: https://www.oulu.fi/en/events/afinla-autumn-symposium-2026-encounters-culture-technology-and-interaction.
The deadline for the receipt of nominations is Thursday June 18th, 2026.
Please send your nominations to:
dmitri.leontjev[at]jyu.fi
We are looking forward to receiving many nominations!