We have three award categories. Please read on for more information about each. The closing date for nominations is 1st May 2026
To watch last years award ceremony select the following link:
New Special Collaboration Award
In 2025 the Special ICAE Collaboration Award was made to the Forum on Autoethnography and Poetic Inquiry in Japan in recognition of the collective work to establish and develop an interdisciplinary autoethographic research community in Japan.
Lifetime Contribution Award
The conference committee invite nominations for the SIXTH “Lifetime Contribution in Autoethnography Award.” This award recognises those who have made a significant contribution to the development and nurturance of the field of autoethnography and/or those working within it. The award seeks to recognise, honour and give thanks to those who have supported this genre of research, scholarship and activism. We would like this recognition to be awarded from ‘the autoethnography community’ as a collective.
If you would like to nominate someone for the 6th Lifetime Contribution in Autoethnography Award please email Trude Goril Klevan Trude.Goril.Klevan@usn.no with a short letter providing a rationale for your nomination.
Thesis Award & Film Award
The Dissertation /thesis and Film Awards are facilitated by Knut Tore Sælør associate professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway, and a registered nurse with a background in the field of mental health. To nominate someone for either of these awards please send a short letter outlining your rationale for the nomination to knut.tore.salor@usn.no.
Previous recipients of Awards:
Lifetime Contribution Awards
2020 Alec Grant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXqCw-Tyq0E
2021 Carolyn Ellis & Arthur Bochner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muy_P71Br84
2022 Kim Etherington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0hh_cTHbE
2023 Gayle Letherby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJb3mURE_jA&t=582s
2024 Elyse Pineau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0m9-Q5S-xY
2025 Kitrina Douglas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMJJ_n30qbs
ICAE Film Award
2025
2024 Haunted Landscapes: Past and Present Interconnections: reflections on love, legacy and place. Gayle Letherby and Ben Cook
2023 “Sand in Sculpture” by David Carless, University of the West of Scotland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdnloZztwoI
ICAE Dissertation/Thesis Award
2025 Landa Love, “Outside of the Box: Narratives of Aromantic and Asexual Erotic Embodiment” University of Plymouth
2024 Susan Young, Bearing Witness: Autoethnographnic animation and the metabolism of trauma.
2023 ICAE Dissertation Award “Through the prism of the missing” Pascale Wasching, University of West London