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from the Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference
2021 Joint
Virtual Conference
Student Competitions
Deadline for submissions is Monday, May 10, 2021
CARSP Student Paper Competition, Student Poster Competition and NEW! Vehicle Safety Enhancement Award
This year we are offering three ways students can showcase their work on a road safety topic, and potentially earn cash prizes and free registration.
In addition to the CARSP’s Student Paper Competition, now in its 16th year, we are also offering a CARSP Vehicle Safety Enhancement Special Award, due to the growing need for studies on this topic, and lastly, we are bringing back the Student Poster Competition!
Participants must be registered in a Canadian university or college and must be a lead author of their work (first OR second author) with the exception of the CARSP Student Paper Award where they must be the first author.
Below is a brief description of each competition. While students are invited to participate in all competitions, each original work can be presented in no more than one option, however, non-winning papers of the Special Award will automatically be considered for the Student Paper Competition. This will be facilitated by the fact that the Special Award will be judged first, and the Student Paper Competition will be judged second. While the judging of these two competitions occurs before the conference, the Student Poster Competition, however, will be judged at the conference.
Student Paper Competition
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The Student Paper competition requires that students produce their paper on any road safety topic using a strict list of requirements. The paper writing requirements used are those stipulated for submitting papers to the CARSP Conference itself. While it is more work than submitting to the Poster Competition, the pay-off is also greater. Here are the benefits of submitting to this option:
- Opportunity to write a paper and receive feedback from experts in the same field
- Opportunity to present your work to an audience of road safety professionals
- Opportunity to win cash prizes:
- $1000 for first place
- $600 for second place
- $400 for third place
- Opportunity to win free registration for the entire conference, including all sessions and events. This is also given to the two runners up (4th and 5th place).
More information on the Student Paper Competition can be found here
Student Poster Competition
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The Student Poster Competition requires that students complete an abstract outlining the content for their poster. Abstracts that get accepted are invited to attend the conference and the posters are judged at that time. This option is intended to help introduce the author to conferences. It is an opportunity to showcase your work, without taking too much time to produce. The benefits of this option are as follows:
- Opportunity to discuss your work with road safety professionals
- Opportunity to win cash prizes:
- $500 for first place
- $350 for second place
- $150 for third place
More information on the Student Poster Competition can be found here
CARSP - Vehicle Safety Enhancement Award (Special Award for Students)
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This Special Award competition requires that students produce their paper on a topic related to vehicle safety enhancement using a strict list of requirements. Two of these requirements relate to the data source and focus of the research, as outlined in the detailed information about this award. The paper writing requirements follow those stipulated for submitting papers to the CARSP Conference itself . While it is more work than submitting to the Poster Competition, the pay-off is also greater. Here are the benefits of submitting to this option:
- Opportunity to write a paper and receive feedback from experts in the same field
- Opportunity to present your work to an audience of road safety professionals
- Opportunity to win up to $2,000 in prize money
- Opportunity to win free registration for the entire conference.
- Your paper, should it not win, will automatically be considered for the Student Paper Competition.
More information on the CARSP - Vehicle Safety Enhancement Award can be found here