ALPSP Rising Star Award
About the award
This award aims to recognise potential in early career individuals and give the winner(s) the opportunity to attend the ALPSP Annual Conference in person. In return, the winner(s) will be required to write a short review of their experiences of the conference.
Read the press release announcement from September 2025.
ALPSP Rising Star Awards Winners 2026
ALPSP is delighted to confirm the three winners:
- Arunima Aditya, Customer Education Manager, Wiley
- Emma Ferguson, Senior Commissioning Editor, Journals, Emerald Publishing
- Jacob Weller, Peer Review Operations Specialist, PLOS
The ALPSP Rising Star Award is sponsored by the Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS)
Our 2025 Winners
- Isobel Birks, Commissioning Editor, Liverpool University Press
- Eleonora Colangelo, Public Affairs Officer, Frontiers
- Elizabeth Fraser, Senior Assistant Editor, Edinburgh University Press
- Elinor Potts, Comms Coordinator, LSE Press
Previous winners
| 2024 Winners: |
| Hazel Rowland, IOP Publishing |
| Anna Savage, BMJ |
| Ella Gibbs, Bristol University Press |
| Heather Townsend, Bristol University Press |
| Melody (Zhuxin) Zhang, Wiley |
| 2023 Winners: |
| Jade Koo, BMJ |
| George Litchfield, eLife |
| Alex Oxford, Edinburgh University Press |
| Danielle Tremeer, Geological Society of London |
