LSE ‘Europe in Question’ Discussion Paper Series is pleased to announce its 2014-15 Doctoral Paper Competition, with a prize fund of £1000.
Single-author papers are invited on all topics to do with Europe. We encourage submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including political science, political theory, public policy, international relations, economics and political economy, geography, philosophy, sociology, social policy, law, and history. Papers should be 7000-10,000 words in length. The Competition aims to bring together LSE research on Europe, and authors must be enrolled on a PhD programme at the LSE.
The deadline for submissions is 15th December 2014. Winners will be announced at a public event scheduled for Spring 2015. Prizes will be awarded as follows: first prize, £600; second prize, £300; third prize, £100. The winning papers, and others judged of special merit by a jury of LSE scholars, will be published as LEQS working papers in early 2015.
Submissions should be emailed as a Word document to euroinst.LEQS@lse.ac.uk. Please refer to the submission guidelines for detailed information on the format. Further enquiries should be directed to Sonja Avlijas at the same address.
Papers will be judged by a committee comprising the editors of LEQS. The committee reserves the right not to make an award or to award joint prizes. Decisions made by the committee are final.
And the winners are..
The jury of LSE scholars awarded two frist prizes for the following contributions:
Mireia Borrell Porta - ‘Do family values shape the pace to return to work after childbirth?’
Christopher Wratil - ‘Democratic Responsiveness in the European Union: the Case of the Council’
The winning papers are published as part of the LEQS Discussion Paper Series. Congratulations to the authors!