2023 Best Dissertation Award
The purpose of the PMRA Best Dissertation Award is to encourage and reward exemplary public management research at the doctoral level. To be eligible for consideration, dissertations must have been completed and defended between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022.
Each submission will be assessed based on the following criteria:
- Considers relevant theoretical and empirical literature;
- Employs an appropriate research design for the research question at hand;
- Provides thoughtful interpretation of research findings, validly infers theoretical and applied implications of the results, appropriately caveats the research results, and suggests promising directions for future research;
- Generates knowledge that is both practically and theoretically relevant;
- Is logically, concisely, and clearly written.
Nominations must include a letter explaining why the nominated dissertation merits this recognition, as well as a PDF copy of the dissertation.
The winner will receive $500, as well as reimbursement of at least $500 in travel expenses to attend the 2023 conference and a waiver of the conference registration fee.
Nominators should submit a nomination letter that addresses the criteria above and a copy of the dissertation here: https://tinyurl.com/55nyaxwx by May 8, 2023. Please submit documents in PDF format.
If experiencing technical issues, please contact Kevin Campbell at PMRA@ku.edu.
The Best Dissertation award will be presented at the 2023 Public Management Research Conference to be held at Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 27-30.
The 2023 Committee members are:
- Lael Keiser, University of Missouri, keiserl@missouri.edu
- Shelena Keulemans, Radbound University, Shelena.keulemans@ru.nl
- Ning Liu, City University of Hong Kong, ning.liu@cityu.edu.hk
Thanks to the committee members for their service.
Past Recipients:
2022 – Marija Aleksovska, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
2021 – Shelena Keulemans, Assistant Professor, Public Administration, Radboud University
2020 – Miyeon Song, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina
2019 – Andrea Headley, Assistant Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University
2018 – Huafang Li, Assistant Professor, Grand Valley State University