Since it’s APSA awards season, I’m going to reiterate a hot take of mine from a while back. Awards are great but reflect IMO a dearth of opportunities for meaningful feedback on scholarly performance.
It’s said researchers need to get used to rejection.

True, but it’s also unreasonable for an employer to largely outsource responsibility for performance evaluation and career development to outside three-person committees.
My impression is many early career researchers are desperate for feedback, encouragement, and support.

Awards offer a taste of that but don’t solve for low institutional investment in support and feedback provision or the further uneven availability of resources across schools.
I don’t have solutions to these problems but I do wish academia offered more frequent, smaller, lower stakes feedback.

And consequently didn’t see much value in non-financial awards for performance.
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