The Rural Communication (RUC) Working Group of the International Association for
Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites the submission of abstracts for its
2025 conference, which will be held in Singapore from 13 to 17 July 2025, hosted by the
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological
University.

As part of the conference, IAMCR, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is offering three awards of 2,500 USD to
authors of papers that advance our understanding of applications of Rural
Communication Services (RCS), particularly in the areas of agriculture, family
farming, natural resource management, climate change adaptation, food security, and
disaster risk reduction and management.

To be eligible for the award, you must be a current (2025) member of IAMCR. Submitted
research must demonstrate how it will contribute to our understanding of rural
communication, RCS, and the application of these in Africa, Asia, or Latin America.
The 2,500 USD is to be used to defray the costs of presenting the work at a special
panel at IAMCR’s 2025 conference. The selected papers will be published in a
FAO/IAMCR publication.

Interested authors must submit abstracts of their papers by the 7 February 2025
deadline, indicating that they wish to be considered for the FAO/IAMCR Award in step 5
of the submission process, “Topics”. Authors of selected abstracts will be informed by
21 February 2025 and required to submit final papers by 21 April 2025. The
FAO/IAMCR Award selection committee will evaluate the eligible papers and announce
the winners no later than 7 May 2025.

For more details, visit the IAMCR 2025 website here.