Dear conference participants, Can I encourage all the research students who are presenting at the IR 9.0 conference in Copenhagen to consider submitting your papers for consideration as the best aoir student paper award 2008. If you would like to make a submission please email your paper to me by 1st September 2008.Your paper should be solo authored, and you need to be either a) a student NOW or b) have been a student at the time of writing the paper to be eligible for the award. Brian Brian D. Loader Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD Email bl506@york.ac.uk Tel: +44(0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44(0) 1904 433043