This Award is open to all – individuals and/or any practices – but you must have a CIAT member or an affiliate as part of your team.
Each entry will be assessed against the following criteria:
- Innovation in practice
- Innovation in research
Criteria for submission
Submissions will be assessed in terms of their outputs and impact in demonstrating one or more of the following: producing and interpreting new design practices, procedures, products, findings or new material; engaging with new and/or complex problems; developing innovative methods, methodologies and analytical techniques; showing imaginative and creative scope; providing new practices or processes or new methods, interpretations and/or insights; collecting and engaging with novel types of data; and/or advancing theory or the analysis of practice or research.
Each entry will be assessed against the following criteria:
Originality: the extent to which the submission makes an important and innovative contribution in the field of professional practice or research.
Significance: the extent to which the work has influenced, or has the capacity to influence, knowledge or the development and understanding of practice and/or policy.
Rigour: the extent to which the work demonstrates coherence and integrity, and adopts robust and appropriate concepts, analyses, sources, theories and/or methodologies.
In assessing submissions, Judges will be looking for sufficient evidence of at least one or more of the following:
- rigour regarding design, method, execution and analysis
- a significant addition to knowledge in the field of practice/research
- the significance and impact of the submission
- the scale, challenge and difficulty posed by the research
- logical coherence of argument and presentation
- original contribution to practice/research
- the significance of the work in advancing knowledge, skills, understanding and - in theory - advancing practice, education, management and/or policy
- the applicability and significance to the relevant practice users and/or research users
- the potential applicability to changes to practice and/or research.
Submission
A completed application form and a written report of 2,000 words, with annexes and appendices as supporting evidence, in written or graphical formats.
Entry fee
There is a £120 (plus VAT) application fee.
Award
The Winner recieves a trophy, a certificate, and an AT Awards logo.
Closing date
7 July 2025
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