The objective of the prize is to acknowledge a high-achieving research candidate who has written the best research paper in the year of the award, whilst enrolled in a PhD program at the Centre for Mental Health Research. Funding for this Award has been provided by the Centre for Mental Health Research in memory of Mrs Ailsa Korten who worked as a research officer in CMHR between 1986 and 2005. Ailsa Korten published over 120 research papers during this period.