This is an award for the best international refereed conference paper or international refereed scientific journal, written by a female lecturer or senior lecturer. The award for top female talent is partly made possible by the late Mrs. de Winter who passed away in 2013, in association with the Twente University Fund, and amounts to € 2,500. For this award female lecturers and senior lecturers can nominate international articles or conference papers. The articles must have been accepted by the journal concerned between 1 June of the previous year and 31 May of the current year.
Objective
To encourage talented women academics within the University of Twente.
Target group
Women assistant or associate professors who are working at the University of Twente at the time of the date of acceptance by the publication concerned.
Assessment criteria
The assessment of nominated international publications will take account of the quality of the publication, which may be demonstrated by the following:
- The outstanding way in which the subject has been researched and presented
- The quality of the way in which the research was conducted
- The academic relevance
- The social relevance (if applicable)
- The originality of the subject and/or the research question
Any available impact factors for the journals will only be taken into account in the assessment when comparing publications in the same discipline.
Nominations
The following rules apply to nominations:
- Women assistant or associate professors enter their own publications for this award. The professor of the group in which the academic is active must draw up a supporting statement for the nomination that is related to the assessment criteria.
- International publications nominated for the award must have been accepted by the journal in the period between June 1st of the previous year and May 31st of the previous year. If the publication has not yet been published, written evidence of acceptance of the article must be submitted to the judging panel.
- In order to be eligible for the award, the author of the nominated publication must have played a leading role in the project concerned. This must be evident from the letter of recommendation from the professor concerned.
- The nominated candidate must be an associate or assistant professor at the University of Twente at the time of acceptance by the publication.
Nominations for the award must be in 1 PDF file and in the following order:
1. A supporting statement by the professor concerned, relating to the assessment criteria
2. A working link to the published articles or a digital version of the unpublished article together with written evidence of acceptance
3. The candidate’s CV
The nomination and the publication must have been written in Dutch or English.
Nominations can be sent before 1 September 2026 by email to Astrid de Graaf, Marketing & Communications via a.degraaf@utwente.nl