Best Dissertation Award

Best Dissertation Nominees must meet the following criteria to be considered for this Higher Education SIG Award:
  • Eligible dissertations must be filed within a 12-month period prior to the annual July 1st HESIG Awards Nomination Deadline (e.g., from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010 for the 2010 HESIG Awards Nomination Deadline) and the student has achieved doctoral candidacy status in either an EdD or PhD program.
  • Eligible nominees do not have to be a member of CIES, nor enrolled in a CIES doctoral program.
  • Dissertations must be submitted in English.
  • Nominated dissertations must focus on international and comparative issues of higher education.
  • Dissertation can be of a conceptual or empirical nature, from any research paradigm that provides a unique contribution to developing scholarship in the field of international and comparative higher education, and show originality and rigor.
  • It is preferred that all nominees who make the final cut submit a paper based on their dissertation for the upcoming CIES national or regional conference.
  • Nomination can be made by (a) the student, (b) a CIES member, or (c) doctoral committee chair (even if that chair is not a member of CIES).
  • Dissertations submitted to other CIES award categories are ineligible.