ILA Synergist Award

The ILA Research Committee announces the listening research Synergist Award for 2012.  Outlined in a 2008 White Paper steered by Dr. Graham Bodie, Dr. Laura Janusik, and Dr. Tuula-Riitta Välikoski, the Synergist Award promotes the advancement of listening knowledge and research through a targeted focus. Using a deductive process, listening scholars and educators have developed a set of priorities for listening research. The priorities include four initiatives and seven research questions, as well as contextualized questions in the areas of Business, Education, Healthcare, Religion/Spirituality, and Theory/Research. Achieving these priorities will assist researchers in providing a solid foundation for future listening research in terms of future theory development. A Synergist is one who cooperates with another. Thus, the researchers granted the ILA Synergist Award will be those cooperating with international listening scholars to build listening theory. We encourage multi-author proposals as well as cross-cultural research but will accept single authored work assuming it meets relevant objectives.

The ILA Synergist Award was developed to encourage researchers to address one or more of the stated priorities. The researcher(s) awarded the cash prize (up to $500) will be expected to present the findings at the next ILA conference as well as permit the International Journal of Listening the first right of publication for the first manuscript stemming from this work.

The deadline for receipt of the award applications is end of day, Feb. 3rd, 2012.

For the full application and further details about the award you can visit the awards section of the ILA website (www.listen.org/Awards), click the following link http://listen.org/Resources/Documents/2012_%20ILA%20Synergist%20Award%20Application.docx, or you may directly contact Christopher Gearhart, ILA Research Chair, at cgearh1@lsu.edu or 619.817.6501.