Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management Best Article Award
The Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management's Best Article Award is awarded annually to the best article from the previous calendar. The Award and $500 prize is announced at the Tertiary Education Management Conference. The journal publisher, Routledge, kindly make the best article freely accessible. The runners up will also be freely accessible for three months.
The best article is determined based on four criteria:
- Relevance to the journal's Aims and Scope
- Style and readability
- Quality of the research process
- Potential impact to the academic or practitioner community.
Prize Winners
2022: Michelle Trudgett, Susan Page & Stacey Kim Coates, ‘Great expectations: Senior Indigenous leadership positions in higher education’. More information is available here on the 2022 winning and highly commended articles.
2021: Michelle Trudgett, Susan Page & Stacey Kim Coates, 'Talent war: recruiting Indigenous senior executives in Australian Universities'. More information is available here on the 2021 winning and highly commended articles.
2020: Carmela de Maio, Kathryn Dixon & Shelley Yeo, 'Responding to student plagiarism in Western Australian universities: the disconnect between policy and academic staff'. More information is available here on the 2020 winning and highly commended articles.
2019: Michael Luckman & Andrew Harvey, 'The financial and educational outcomes of Bachelor degree non-completers'. More information is available here on the 2019 winning and highly commended articles.
2018: Bradley D. Custer, 'Applying to university with criminal convictions: a comparative study of admissions policies in the United States and United Kingdom'. More information is available here on the 2018 winning and highly commended articles.
2017: Ian W. Li et al, 'Equity in higher education and graduate labour market outcomes in Australia'. More information is available here on the 2017 winning and highly commended articles.