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Best Dissertation Award

The PMRA Best Dissertation Award encourages and rewards exemplary public management research at the doctoral level.

2024 Best Dissertation Award

Congratulations to Chelsea Pennick McIver on being awarded the 2024 Best Dissertation Award for her exceptional research on the governance of National Forests! Her work exemplifies the innovative spirit and intellectual rigor that this award seeks to honor.
Chelsea Pennick McIver

 

Purpose

The PMRA Best Dissertation Award encourages and rewards exemplary public management research at the doctoral level.

Eligibility

To be eligible for consideration, dissertations must have been completed and defended between January 1 and December 31 of the award cycle.

Application Process

Nominations for the 2025 award cycle have not yet opened.

Assessment Criteria

  • 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.

Award

The award recipient will be formally recognized at the upcoming Public Management Research Conference and will receive the following:

  • PMRC Conference registration fee waiver
  • $500 in travel expense reimbursement to attend the 2024 PMRC Conference
  • $500 cash award

Award Committee Chair

The chair for the 2025 award cycle has not yet been announced.

Past Recipients

 

2024 | Chelsea Pennick McIver, Associate Director of Policy Analysis Group and Research Assistant Professor, University of Idaho

2023 | Danyao Li, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

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

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