Carmen Luca Sugawara wins writing award

Carmen Luca Sugawara

     March 3, 2008 - Carmen Luca Sugawara, an Assistant Professor at the Indiana University School of Social Work, has been awarded the Frank Turner Prize by the publishers of International Social Work.

     The award was given for the article, "Civil society's role in promoting local development in countries in transition: A comparative study of the Philippines and Romania," published in 2006. Jocelyn Hermoso was co-author of the article.

     Based on field visits and data from research, the article "compares and contrasts the experiences of the Philippines, where civil-society organizations are working to build the structures for more substantial democracy, and Romania, where civil-society organizations are faced with the challenges of rebuilding the country after reeling from the effects of totalitarian rule," the authors wrote.

     The prize was created to honor Dr. Francis Turner, a longtime editor of the publication, following his retirement in 2004. 

    The publication reviewed all the articles published in 2006 and then selected the 'best' based on how the article reflected the scope of the journal "to explore and promote the development of international social work and also looked at scholarship, research, relevance and originality.   

 Additional information about the article and prize follows:

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International Social Work

DOI: 10.1177/0020872807081930

International Social Work 2007; 50; 862

Frank Turner Prize, 2006

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Frank Turner Prize, 2006

In 2004, following the retirement of Dr Francis Turner, the owners

and publishers of International Social Work agreed to award a prize

to honour his long period of editorship. This prize is awarded

annually for the best article in each volume and consists of £300

worth of books and/or journals from Sage.

The panel established to award the first such prize last year undertook

new deliberations in spring 2007 and reviewed all articles published

in 2006. It was agreed that articles selected for short-listing

should reflect the aims and scope of the journal, ‘to explore and promote

the development of international social work’. In addition, the

panel scored short-listed articles according to criteria related to

scholarship, research, relevance, originality, comparative content

and international focus. Judging has now been completed for the

award of the prize for best article in Volume 49.

We are pleased to announce that the joint winners of the Frank

Turner Prize, 2006 are Jocelyn Hermoso and Carmen Luca for:

‘Civil society’s role in promoting local development in countries in

transition: a comparative study of the Philippines and Romania’,

ISW 49(3): 319–32.

Runners-up with very close scores were:

Ian Ferguson and Michael Lavalette for: ‘Globalization and global

justice: towards a social work of resistance’, ISW 49(3): 309–18.

Kwong-leung Tang and Heather Peters for: ‘Internationalizing the

struggle against neo-liberal social policy: the experience of Canadian

women’, ISW 49(5): 571–82.

Philip Mendes for: ‘Welfare lobby groups responding to globalization:

a case study of the Australian Council of Social Service

(ACOSS)’, ISW 49(6): 679–92.

Judging Panel

Lena Dominelli (IASSW), Hans van Ewik (ICSW), Nigel Hall

(IFSW), Karen Lyons (Editor-in-Chief) and Vishanthie Sewpaul

(Deputy Editor)

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