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Best PhD Thesis Prize

Awarded annually for the PhD thesis that has made an original and promising contribution

Best PhD Thesis Prize

The Best PhD Thesis prize is awarded annually and recognise outstanding and original contributions in the area of contemporary European Studies.

 

 

Deadline 1 Dec 2024

Eligibility and Prize:

The PhD thesis must:

  • have been written in English;
  • be authored by an Early-Career or PhD Researcher member of UACES (you can join when you nominate).
  • have been passed in the 2024 calendar year (i.e. up to 31 December 2024). By 'passed' we mean the final revisions of your PhD have been approved. E.g., if your viva was in 2023, but you had major corrections which were approved in 2024, you are eligible for the 2025 prize.

To nominate yourself for the prize please:

The prize is 100 GBP and the winning scholar will be invited to attend our Annual Conference as our guest and to collect the prize.

 

The deadline for the 2025 prize is 1 December 2024. 

If your PhD is being examined between the deadline and 31 December you can still be considered for the prize. If your thesis is due to be examined in this window and you wish to nominate yourself, you must complete the nomination form and contact admin@uaces.org prior to the deadline, stating that you wish to be considered for an extension. 

We look forward to receiving your nominations. 

Previous Winners

Year
Year

Author
Author

Thesis Title
Thesis Title

Institution
Institution

Year
2023

Author
Yaning Zhang

Thesis Title
A Supranational Guardian with Two Faces: An analytical typology of the European Commision's toleration of noncompliance with EU law

Institution
Fudan University

Year
2022

Author
Marij Swinkels

Thesis Title
The role of EU leaders and ideas in managing the Eurozone crisis: navigating uncharted territory

Institution
Utrecht University

Year
2021

Author
Charlotte Godziewski

Thesis Title
Health in All Policies’ at EU Level: A Critical Analysis

Institution
University of Sheffield

Year
2020

Author
Niels Gheyle

Thesis Title
Trade policy with the lights on: The origins, dynamics, and consequences of the politicization of TTIP

Institution
Universiteit Gent

Year
2019

Author
Anna Wambach

Thesis Title
The European Union in British news discourse from 2014 to 2015: A Dialectical-Relational Critical Discourse Analysis

Institution

Year
2018

Author
Koen Slootmaeckers

Thesis Title
From ‘Strategic Accession’ to ‘Tactical Europeanisation’? The Promotion of and Resistance to LGBT Equality in Serbia’s European Integration Process

Institution
Queen Mary University of London

Year
2017

Author
Lisanne Groen

Thesis Title
The Importance of Fitting Activities to Context: The EU in Multilateral Climate and Biodiversity Negotiations

Institution
Free University of Brussels

Year
2016

Author
Paul Tobin

Thesis Title
Explaining Climate Policy Variation in Developed States

Institution
University of York

Year
2015

Author
Rikke Wagner

Thesis Title
Exit as Voice: Transnational Citizenship Practices in Response to Denmark’s Family Unification Policy

Institution
London School of Economics and Politics Science

Year
2014

Author
Sonja Kittelsen

Thesis Title
The EU and the Securitization of Pandemic Influenza

Institution
Aberystwyth University

Year
2013

Author
Ania Zbyszewska

Thesis Title
Gendering the European Working-Time Regimes - The Universe of Political Discourse, Working-Time Regulation, and Gender Equality in the Wider European Union and in Poland

Institution
University of Victoria

Year
2012

Author
Alison Johnston

Thesis Title
European Monetary Union and Institutional Change: The Perverse Effects of Supranational Macroeconomic Regimes on Wage Inflation

Institution
London School of Economics & Political Science

Year
2011

Author
Eike Klüver

Thesis Title
Lobbying in the European Union: Interest Group Influence on Policy Formulation

Institution
University of Mannheim

Year
2010

Author
Ronan McCrea

Thesis Title
Religion and the Public Order of the European Union

Institution
London School of Economics & Political Science

Year
2009

Author
Frank Häge

Thesis Title
Decision-Making in the Council of the European Union: The Role of Committees

Institution
Universiteit Leiden

Year
2008

Author
Mihalis Kritikos

Thesis Title
Institutions and Science in the Authorization of GMO Releases in the EU (1990-2007): The False Promise of Proceduralism

Institution
London School of Economics & Political Science

Year
2007

Author
Thomas Larue

Thesis Title
Agents in Brussels: Delegations and Democracy in the European Union

Institution
Umeå Universitet

Year
2006

Author
Sara Hobolt

Thesis Title
Europe in Question: The Role of Political Information in Referendums on European Integration

Institution
University of Cambridge

Year
2006

Author
Maria Strömvik

Thesis Title
To Act as a Union: Explaining the development of the EU's collective foreign policy

Institution
Lunds Universitet

Year
2005

Author
Dermot Hodson

Thesis Title
Economic Governance and the Dual Outcome in Euro Area Fiscal Policy 1999-2002

Institution
London School of Economics & Political Science