UK Data Service 2017 Dissertation Prize
Following the success of last year’s competition, the UK Data Service launched the 2017 Dissertation Prize. The Prize provides a great opportunity to recognise and reward students who use our data.
Prizes of £500 (1st place), £250 (2nd place) and turkey rcs data £150 (3rd place) will be awarded to undergraduates who use secondary quantitative and/or qualitative data available via the UK Data Service in their dissertations.
Abstracts of the winning dissertations will feature in our Newsletter and full copies will be published on the UK Data Service website (with permission of the students, supervisors and affiliated institutions).
Application and award process
Students entering the competition will submit an Executive Summary of their dissertation, outlining its research question(s), methodology and main results, by 15th May 2017. More information on how to enter the competition can be found here.
Our internal panel, consisting of Beate Lichtwardt, Celia Russell, Maureen Haaker and Laura Watt, is responsible for shortlisting the entries. Students who are shortlisted will then be asked to submit their full dissertation for judging by our external panel.