2026 Awards and Lectures

2026 Commissions and Councils Awards

CSWE is pleased to recognize the honorees of the 2026 Commissions Commissions and Councils awards. Honorees will be recognized during the 72nd CSWE Annual Conference in Atlanta, October 22-25, 2026.

2026 Carl A. Scott Book Scholarship

The 2026 Carl A. Scott Book Scholarship is now open. Two $500 book scholarships that will be awarded to one BSW and one MSW student who have demonstrated their commitment to promoting equity, racial, economic, and environmental justice in their social work careers. Meet this year's Book Scholarship winners.

2026 Community Partnership Action Award

The Community Partnership Action (CPA) Award honors the contributions of schools and departments of social work and social work students (BSW, MSW, PhD/DSW) in advancing community partnership action. The CPA Student Award recognizes two students who have engaged in a community partnership activity that successfully promoted social, economic, or environmental justice. The CPA Social Work Program Award recognizes up to two students and up to two CSWE-accredited social work programs that encourage their faculty, students, and staff members to engage in community-based social, economic, or environmental justice activities.  Meet this year's CPA Award winners.

2026 Disability Manuscript Award

The award recognizes scholarship that contributes to knowledge about disability; full participation of persons with disabilities; social, political, and economic issues related to disability and persons with disabilities; and social work education curriculum materials focused on disability and persons with disabilities. Disability Manuscript Award winner(s) will be recognized at the CSWE Annual Conference. Meet this year's Disability Manuscript Award honorees.

2026 Council on Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Diversity Award (PhD Student & Jr. Faculty Member)

The award recognizes doctoral students and junior faculty members with outstanding scholarship in the areas of racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity in social work education. An award will be given to a doctoral student and a junior faculty member during the CSWE Annual Conference. Meet this year's honorees.

2026 Two-Spirit, Queer and/or Trans People of Color (2-QTPOC) Award

The Two-Spirit, Queer, Trans, and/or gender expansive People of Color Award (Spirit Award) recognizes the significant teaching, practice, or service contributions of CSWE member(s) to the two-spirit, queer, transgender, gender non-binary and gender expansive communities and communities of color in programs of social work practice. These contributions may include but are not limited to creating and fostering an inclusive environment in social work programs, developing innovative approaches to ensuring excellence in field education, mentoring two-spirit, queer, transgender, gender non-binary and gender expansive students, faculty, and staff, implementing activities that fosters or sustains a positive and inclusive culture and climate, and elevating core social work values in social work practice. Meet this year's honoree.

2026 Council on the Role and Status of Women in Social Work Awards

Meet this year's winners of the following CORSW Awards:

  • Feminist Manuscript Award recognizes manuscript authors who draw upon feminist and womanist theory, research methods, and/or educational and practice perspectives.
  • Feminist Scholarship Award honors a scholar who advances feminist knowledge, including Womanist and Xicanism perspectives. Advancement of knowledge may be through social work theory, research, practice, policy, and education. 
  • Community Impact Award recognizes community practice, which shapes the process of social work education by exemplifying the feminist leadership models.
  • Violence Against Women and Children Manuscript Award honors outstanding manuscript author(s) who are early career scholars working in the area of violence against women and children in social work education. For the purpose of this award, an early career scholar is defined as a doctoral student or an academic professional with no more than seven years since earning their highest degree (either an MSW, DSW, or PhD). 
  • Mentor Recognition awards honor the mentors of individuals who identify as women in social work education, supporting them throughout their education journey and into leadership positions. 

2026 Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression Scholarship (SOGIE) Award

The Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, & Expression (SOGIE) Award honors excellence in scholarship that celebrates the lives of; promotes social justice, equity, and inclusion, and expands understanding of intersectional topics that affect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, sexual-expansive, gender-expansive, two-spirit, and all others under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella, in social work education and practice. Meet this year's honoree.

2026 Partners in International Education Awards

The Partners in Advancing International Education (PIE) Awards honor the contribution of social work faculty members, social work students (BSW, MSW, or PhD), and organizations as partners in advancing education for global social work. The PIE awards are given in recognition of conceptual, curricular, and programmatic innovations in education for global social work. Meet this year's honorees.