Best Dissertation Award

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

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

Nominations for the 2025 award cycle have not yet opened.

Each submission will be assessed based on the following criteria:

1. Considers relevant theoretical and empirical literature;

2. Employs an appropriate research design for the research question at hand;

3. 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;

4. Generates knowledge that is both practically and theoretically relevant;

5. Is logically, concisely, and clearly written.

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

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