Ole-Jørgen Skog Award for Early Career Scientist

 

The Kettil Bruun Society is an international and multidisciplinary society, aiming to promote social and epidemiological research which fosters comparative understanding of the social aspects of alcohol problems in different countries and across different sub-populations.

The purpose of the Ole-Jørgen Skog Award for Early Career Scientist is to recognize the excellence of the papers presented by early career scientists at the KBS Annual Symposium held each year in early June. The award is a cash prize of 250 Euros and two years membership of the Kettil Bruun Society.

 

The best paper presented by an early career scientist will be selected by a scientific committee, based on its contribution to advancing knowledge in alcohol research and on its theoretical and methodological quality.

The winner will be announced and the award presented towards the end of the meeting.

 

 

Eligibility:

Applicants who:

- are students studying for their masters or doctoral degree or early career scientists who have obtained their doctoral degree within the last two years.

- are presenting a paper as a first author.

 

Application

Applicants must send their full conference paper to Kerstin Stenius, KBS President (Kerstin.Stenius@stakes.fi) along with a covering letter stating how long the applicant has been engaged in social and/or epidemiological research on alcohol and the year they obtained their PhD if applicable.

 

 

2009 Selection committee:
 Jacek Moskalewiz. Bill Kerr, Mats Ramstedt and Florenece Kerr-Correa

  

 

 

Previous winners:

 

 

KBS 34th  2008 Victoria, Canada, June 2 to 6:

Popova, Svetlana. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Toronto, Canada. (paper: Svetlana Popova,
Juergen Rehm, Jayadeep Patra, William Gnam, Anna Sarnocinska Hart : Alcohol related Laws and Avoidable
Burden and its Costs due to Motor Vehicle Accidents in Canada, 2002).

 

 

KBS 33rd  2007 Budapest, Hungary, June 4 to 8:

Livingston, Michael. AER Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, Turning Point Alcohol
            and Drug Centre, Australia. (paper: Michael Livingston, Anne-Marie Laslett,
            Paul Dietze: Individual and community correlates of high-risk youth drinking).

 

 

 

KBS 32rd 2006 Maastricht, Nederland, 29. may-2. june:

Kuntsche, Emmanuel.  Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug

            Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland (paper: Kuntsche, E.:Drinking motives as

            mediators of the link between alcohol expectancies and alcohol use among

            adolescents).

 

Poelen, Evelien.  Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (paper: Poelen,
            E.: The relative contribution of genes and environment to alcohol use in

            adolescents and young adults).