Deadline: 5-Jun-23

Nominations are now open for the 5th Annual ACAMH Awards to recognise high quality work in evidence-based science, both in publication and practice, in the field of child and adolescent mental health.

Nominations will be evaluated by a panel of leading figures in the field, along with Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) trustees and the Editors-in-Chief of the journals; JCPP, JCPP Advances and CAMH. Self-nominations are allowed, unless stated. Nominations must cover all the criteria to be successful.

Awards and Criteria

• Digital Innovation Awards
  • Research on Digital Impact
    • Nomination Criteria: A researcher who has published the best paper on an information/data/IT/digital topic relating to child and adolescent mental health, which can include online assessment innovations.
  • Digital Intervention
    • Nomination Criteria: A clinician who has put evidence base into practice within the information/data/IT/digital fields of child and adolescent mental health. This could be the use of information or technologies in the delivery of care or service design etc.
• Educator Award
  • David Cottrell ‘Education of CAMH Professionals’
    • Nomination criteria: An Someone who has had a significant impact upon the education or training of child and adolescent mental health professionals. This is open to all disciplines, but education or training must relate to children’s mental health.
• Trainee Awards
  • Postgraduate Clinical Trainee of the Year
    • Nomination criteria: Trainee or student who is less than two years post PhD who has shown initiative or made a significant contribution to child and adolescent mental health.
  • Research Trainee of the Year
    • Nomination criteria: Open to any individual undertaking postgraduate training as a practitioner working with children in relation to mental health from any background (e.g. clinical psychology, educational psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry). This could include teaching, for example, an individual undertaking an MEd who is able to demonstrate a clear commitment to evidence-based clinical practice.
  • Clinical Trainee of the Year
    • Nomination criteria: Open to an individual undertaking their first qualification as a practitioner working with children in relation to mental health from any background (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational therapy, physio) and who demonstrates a clear commitment to evidence based clinical practice
• Research Into Practice
  • Eric Taylor ‘Translational Research Into Practice’
    • Nomination Criteria: An individual with a sustained contribution to translating research into practice over a number of years, whose work involves both research, and either clinical or educational involvement in practice. And/or a researcher or clinician who has published translational science (evidence base into practice) with evidence of impact on clinical service provision. This could involve the establishment of new interventions, or improvement of existing ones, with evidence of impact on clinical service provision.
• Team Awards: Only teams can be nominated for these two awards, self-nominations allowed.
  • Lionel Hersov Memorial Award
    • Nomination Criteria: A practice team that has demonstrated the use of evidence base (research, audit or service evaluation) into clinical practice. Or a team that has evaluated the outcome or measures either the clinical impact or demonstrated quality improvement (can be efficiencies of time, money or reduced ‘waste’). The nominations will be accepted from researchers, investigators, clinicians, and educationalists.
  • Innovative Research, Training or Practice in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs)
    • Nomination Criteria: Team based in a country classified by the World Bank as LMICs in the preceding year, and whose work involve research, clinical or educational activities in that country. The work shows innovation in research, training, or practice/service delivery in child and adolescent mental health.
    • Eligible countries; Afghanistan, Angola, Algeria, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Micronesia, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
• Rising Star Award
  • Please note that this award cannot be self-nominated.
  • Kathy Sylva ‘Rising Star’ Award
    • Nomination criteria: Open to any person who has made a significant scientific contribution to child and adolescent mental health literature, within 10 years of their first peer reviewed journal publication. For clarification please email Hannah Moore.

Terms and Conditions

• Each entry should not exceed the word limit specified and must address the required information for the award.
• All nominations and information supplied in the supporting material will be treated as confidential.
• Details of the Awards event will follow in due course.
• Please note the nominee must have given their permission to be nominated prior to the entry being submitted.
• A person can be nominated for several categories.
• Multiple nominations DO NOT carry more weight. If there is more than one nomination for the same person (for the same award), only the first nomination submitted will be considered.
• The judges reserve the right to withhold any award should they feel the entries are below the required standard.
• The verdict of the judging panel is final.
• Entries may be based on activities undertaken in the last five years.

For more information, visit ACAMH.