Graduate School Award for PhD Excellence 2015

To further stimulate and reward excellence in PhD research, the Graduate School invited its PhD candidates and recent graduates to submit their work for the 2015 "Graduate School Award for PhD Excellence". During a festive award ceremony, the winners of this year’s competition were announced by Graduate School Dean Professor Liesbet van Zoonen.

The School received 65 high quality submissions for the competition. Almost all of them were written in English, testifying to the international nature of the School. The jury was impressed by the productivity of our PhD candidates, their high visibility in international conferences and journals, and the outstanding quality of their work.

After an initial selection by the Graduate School, the Programme Board reviewed the short lists for the categories best poster, best conference paper, best article and best PhD thesis. The Graduate School wishes to congratulate the winners and thank all participants for contributing to the competition.

Best PhD thesis

Kimberley Breevaart (Psychology) "Engaging Leadership" Defended (cum laude) at Erasmus University Rotterdam on May 29th, 2015

14 dissertations were submitted, all of them of solid quality. Kimberly Breevaart’s thesis was praised for its solid design, research methods and contribution to the field of leadership. Congratulations Kim!

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