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Joni Lovenduski PhD Prize

Nomination Procedure

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The 2023 Joni Lovenduski Prize is now closed. Thank you to all those who nominated. The next prize will run in 2025.

Submitting a nomination

To nominate, please email a formal nomination letter from the Official Representative or Head of Department of the member institution at which the PhD dissertation was examined, to prizes@ecpr.eu.

Nominations must include, as three separate PDF files:

  • Formal nomination letter, which should emphasise the innovative and outstanding contribution of the PhD dissertation to research on Gender and Politics.
  • An expanded 15–20 page abstract, in English, outlining the main arguments of the work. The abstract should include:
  1. The subject of the PhD dissertation and how it relates to current research on Gender and Politics;
  2. Its main findings and arguments;
  3. Its principal conclusions and contributions to the field of Gender and Politics;
  4. The author's original contribution in case of collective work and publication (see requirements stated above regarding article-based dissertation and thesis-based dissertation).
  • The table of contents of the PhD dissertation, also in English.

Please note that, although the expanded abstract and table of contents should be written in English, the original PhD does not have to be in English.

Eligibility

The PhD dissertation must have been examined and deemed to have passed in the two years preceding the award. However, the PhD need not have been officially conferred during this period. For the 2023 prize, all PhD dissertations that have been successfully conferred between 1 October 2020 and 30 September 2022 could be nominated.

  • Only ECPR member institutions (Full or Associate) can nominate a candidate for the prize, and the dissertation must have been submitted at that institution.
  • In case of a joint PhD, the main institution nominates the candidate (in case the main institution is not an ECPR member, the second institution can make the nomination). 
  • The nomination must come via the ECPR Official Representative or the Head of Department.
  • The topic of the dissertation should adopt a gender and/or sexuality studies perspective within the broadly conceived fields of political science, international relations, political theory, philosophy, research methods, public policy or public administration. 
  • The dissertation may not have been nominated for the Jean Blondel PhD Prize.
Thesis-based dissertations

If the thesis was funded and accomplished within the framework of a collective research project, the submission should state in an explicit and precise way the original contribution of the candidate in terms of methodological framework (data collection, data analysis), theoretical framework and empirics.

Article-based dissertations

These may be submitted under the following conditions:

  1. the dissertation should comprise at least three articles. The introductory and concluding chapters of the dissertation should offer a coherent narrative stating the original contribution of the dissertation.
  2. in case of co-authored piece(s), the submission should state in an explicit and precise way the contribution of the candidate to any co-authored piece(s). 

Exclusions

  • Self-nominations are not accepted.
  • Members of the ECPR Executive Committee, ECPR Director, or Editors of any ECPR books, journals or blog are not eligible for this prize.

Shortlist

The nomination materials will be used to select a shortlist of PhD dissertations (usually five candidates). The authors of the shortlisted dissertations will then be asked to provide an electronic copy of their complete dissertations.

Prize Jury

Starting with the 2023 prize, the jury will comprise a member of the ECPR Executive Committee as non-voting Chair, a representative of the Steering Committee of the Standing Group on Gender and Politics, a member of the same group, a previous winner of this prize, and an external member.

The jury for the 2023 prize consisted of:

  • Petra Meier University of Antwerp (Chair, non-voting)
  • Dorota Szelewa University College Dublin
  • Eva Anduiza Universitat Autonoma Barcelona
  • Orlanda Siow Newcastle University
  • Éva Fodor Central European University

  Questions? Email prizes@ecpr.eu