ASFLA INC offers a range of small grants and prizes to SFL-researchers.
1. SMALL GRANTS
ASFLA INC offers small grants of $500 – $1500 to ASFLA INC members to kick-start research projects in systemic functional linguistics.
We particularly welcome applications from ECRs and SFL-researchers who are in non-permanent positions.
Email our president Shooshi Dreyfus at shooshi@uow.edu.au with a one-page project outline that includes details about the:
- Contribution to the field and/or impact on society
- Importance of the topic
- Benefits to ASFLA and the SFL community in the region
Attach a separate one-page budget plan with costs fully outlined.
There’s no deadline for small grants – they are available any time.
2. RUQAIYA HASAN PRIZE
The Ruqaiya Hasan Prize is awarded biennially by ASFLA INC to an emerging scholar whose recent work engages deeply with Professor Hasan’s topical and methodological concerns. The prize aims to honour the life and work of Professor Hasan and foster its ongoing legacy, as well as encourage excellence in the research of emerging scholars working with Systemic Functional Linguistics.
The prize is awarded at the ASFLA INC conference. The winner receives $500, and an opportunity to give a named presentation at an ASFLA INC event.
2019 WINNER OF THE RUQAIYA HASAN PRIZE IS DAVID KELLOGG of Sangmyung University in Seoul, South Korea.
Details on how to nominate for the next Hasan Prize will be posted here when announced.
3. M.A.K. HALLIDAY PRIZE
The M.A.K. Halliday Prize is an international book prize awarded biennially for the most significant scholarly monograph recently published in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). It is named in memory of M.A.K. Halliday, who was the leading figure in the development of SFL theory. The Prize is open to scholars working in theoretical, descriptive or applied fields. The principal criterion for success will be evidence of excellence and significance in furthering and developing the work of Systemic Functional Linguistics.
The Regulations for the M.A.K. Halliday Prize can be found here.
THE INAUGURAL WINNERS OF THE M.A.K. HALLIDAY PRIZE 2023 ARE THU NGO, SUE HOOD, JIM MARTIN, CLAIRE PAINTER, BRAD SMITH AND MICHELE ZAPPAVIGNA for their book Modelling paralanguage from the perspective of Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and application. London: UK: Bloomsbury. 2022.
The International Selection Committee for the 2023 prize was:
| Region | Member |
| Australia | Rosemary Huisman (Chair) The University of Sydney, Australia |
| Asia | Emi Emilia Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (Indonesian University of Education) |
| China | Zhu Yongsheng 复旦大学 (Fudan University, China) |
| Africa | Ralph Adendorff Rhodes University, South Africa |
| Latin America | Natalia Ignatieva Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico) |
| North America | Meg Gebhard University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA |
| Europe | Marta Filipe Alexandre Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal) |
Details how to nominate for the next M.A.K. Halliday Prize will be posted here when announced.