ACLAR President Dr Erica Hateley was recently awarded a Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) by the Australian Research Council. The award provides funding from 2012-2015 and only a handful were awarded in Literary Studies nationwide. This is great news for the field of children's literature. Congratulations, Erica!

Erica's project is entitled 'Who wins? Who loses?- The social values of Australian children's book awards'. It will be 'the first critical evaluation of the books selected by the Children's book Council of Australia in their annual 'Book of the Year' awards. These books are present in libraries, schools, and bookstores across Australia. This project examines the extent to which these books promote particular social values to contemporary Australian children.'