Graduate Student Research Excellence (GSRE) Awards

The Graduate Student Research Excellence (GSRE) Awards are designed to promote graduate students’ peer-reviewed publications and peer-reviewed conference presentations. Up to three GSRE Awards will be given to eligible graduate (Master’s and PhD) students every year, based on their best research output for the year in the mode of delivery consistent with their respective disciplines, including peer-reviewed publications and adjudicated conference presentations. GSRE awards foster and encourage high quality publications and presentations by graduate students at Lakehead University.

Submission Requirements and Selection Criteria:

1. Deadline: December 15, 2025.

2. Eligibility period is September 2024 to November 2025.

3. In the case of peer-reviewed publications, the graduate student applicant must be the first author of the publication. If the student is the lead author but the student’s name does not appear first due to disciplinary conventions, the student must explain in their cover letter.

4. In the case of peer-reviewed conference presentations, applicants must submit the written version of the paper. Written conference papers must be written in full sentences; point form or notes are not accepted. The paper must be a minimum of 2000 words and include references.

5. All publications are eligible within one year of a student’s graduation from Lakehead University. In the case of a peer-reviewed conference paper, the submission would need to be adjudicated and considered ‘accepted’ while the applicant was still enrolled in a graduate program at Lakehead.

6. Submissions may be made by graduate students or their supervisors.

7. No more than one submission per year will be allowed per student.

8. “In press” or “accepted” manuscripts will not be considered since these manuscripts can be considered in the following awarding period once they are officially published.

9. If an article is published initially online and then in hard copy, the graduate student has the choice to submit either the online publication to the current awarding period or the hard-copy publication to the following awarding period, but not both.

10. Each submission must include a cover letter explaining the importance and impact of the submitted publication or conference paper, including the appropriateness of the journal, book, or conference. The letter should be co-signed by the graduate student and their supervisor.