The 2027 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research in Language Policy and Planning in Educational Contexts nomination period is now open!

For the 2027 TIRF Alatis Prize, we invite nominations of outstanding articles or chapters from peer-reviewed, edited books that were published during calendar years of 2025 or 2026. Advanced publications and/or online publications that were first released in 2024 but later published in print in 2025 may also be nominated.

TIRF will only consider publications nominated by someone other than the author(s) of the published work. Individuals may only nominate one article/chapter per competition year. An author may have only one article/chapter under review per competition year.

In addition, please note the following exclusions:

• Current TIRF Trustees are ineligible to be nominated for the Alatis Prize, nor are they allowed to nominate papers for the Alatis Prize.
• Papers that have appeared in a volume or journal issue edited or co-edited by a current TIRF Trustee, or papers that have been published in a series in which a current TIRF Trustee is a series editor, are ineligible.
• Papers that have appeared in TIRF publications, for example, chapters in the TIRF-Routledge “Global Research on Teaching and Learning English” series, may not be nominated.
• Individual chapters in authored books are ineligible.
• Past recipients of the TIRF Alatis Prize must wait five years from the year they received the Prize before they are eligible to be nominated again.

Submissions will be reviewed based upon the quality of the work and its potential impact on the field of language policy and planning in educational contexts. The research may be country- and language-specific or country- and language-general. Reviewers will consider the degree of sophistication and/or innovation of the methodology used as well as the paper’s implications for policy formation and/or change. Each study will be assessed for the salience of the research question(s) asked, the appropriateness and rigor of the research methods used, and the significance of the paper’s contribution to knowledge within the field of language policy or planning in educational contexts. Studies using any appropriate analyses – quantitative, statistical procedures for data gathering and data analyses, qualitative/descriptive research approaches, or mixed approaches – will be considered.

Nominations should be submitted no later than October 5, 2026 via our Application Submission area. Write to [email protected] with any questions.