The Marion Miller Award was created to honour Marion Miller, who was a promising graduate student working with Dr. Jack Ellis at York University during the 1970s. Ms. Miller was very much involved in the Ontario Research Council on Leisure (ORCOL) at that time, and was one of the key organizers of the Second Canadian Congress on Leisure Research, held in Toronto in 1978. Tragically, she died in a plane crash just prior to the Congress. This award for the most outstanding paper authored by a student has since been presented by ORCOL at each subsequent Canadian Congress on Leisure Research to honour Marion Miller.

The criteria and process for the Award at the Eleventh Canadian Congress of Leisure Research are as follows:

Eligibility

The author must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident. The paper must be based on research undertaken as part of a full-time graduate or undergraduate degree or diploma at a Canadian or non-Canadian university or college. Applicants may be either currently registered in a degree or diploma program or recently graduated; however, applicants who graduated prior to 2003 are not eligible. Only single-authored papers will be considered.

Paper Format

Applicants must submit three copies of the paper. The paper must be typed or word-processed, double-spaced, on single-sided paper; the body of the paper should be no more than 20 pages (excluding figures, tables, bibliography). The cover page should include the applicant's full name, address, telephone number, email address, institutional affiliation (e.g., "This paper is based on an MA thesis, Department of X, University of Y, 2004"), and name of the student's supervisor. The author's name should not appear in the text. The first page of the paper should include an abstract of no more than 100 words. Formatting of footnotes, tables, figures, and references should adhere to the Publication Manual of the APA (5^th Ed.).

Language

Papers will be accepted in either French or English.

Selection Criteria

The Award will be made to the paper judged to be the most outstanding paper submitted to the competition based on originality, quality of research and analysis, and quality of presentation.

Award

A cheque from ORCOL for $500 will be presented to the winner at the Congress banquet; the Congress student registration fee will be waived for the winner. (The winner will be responsible for all other travel and congress expenses.)

Deadlines

Applicants are encouraged to meet the normal deadlines for the submission of an abstract and registration directly to the Congress Committee in order to be considered for inclusion in the CCLR11 program, regardless of the outcome of the Award competition. Applicants may, however, submit a paper solely to the Award competition, but in that case unsuccessful applicants will be too late to be considered for inclusion in the CCLR11 program. All applicants for the award must submit three full copies of the paper by March 18, 2005 to:

Dr. Bryan Smale
President, Ontario Research Council on Leisure
Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
N2L 3G1

Papers received by this deadline will be reviewed by a committee of ORCOL through a double-blind review process. The winner of the Award will be notified by April 15, 2005.

Paper Presentation

The winner must be properly registered for CCLR11 and must attend the Congress in order to receive the Award. The winner will present the paper in an appropriate topic session.

For further information, contact Bryan Smale at the address above, by phone (519-888-4567, ext 5664), or email: smale@uwaterloo.ca