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Herbert Walton Award - Sponsored by BAE Systems
Created in honour of one the founding members of APM, this award recognises the postgraduate dissertation written during the year at Doctorate level.
The doctoral research will add significantly to the body of project and programme management knowledge and will offer the opportunity for project and programme managers and their teams to improve performance and increase effectiveness.
Entering the Herbert Walton Award
All scoresheets can be downloaded here.
The scoresheet for this award has been devised by the academic judging panel and covers key areas such as the benefit and relevance of the research to the project management industry.
Entering the Herbert Walton award is a one stage process that involves the submission of the full dissertation along with a summary highlighting how the work covers the areas included in the Herbert Walton Award Scoresheet. This summary should exceed no more than 2 sides of A4.
As well as the scoresheet, the submission will also be assessed in terms of:
• Clarity and succinctness
• Presentational quality
• Communication
Submissions must be accompanied with an Entrants' Cover Sheet.
Previous winners:
2009 Ron Basu - Henley Business School
2008 Dr Joana Geraldi, University of Siegen
2007 Eddie Fisher, Open University
2006 Kirsty Hunter, Glasgow Caledonian University
Geoffrey Trimble Award - Sponsored by BAE Systems
First awarded in 2005 and named in honour of the first ever president of APM, this award is open to entrants from all industry sectors involved in master’s level study. The award recognises the best post-graduate dissertation written during the year.
Entering the Geoffrey Trimble Award
All scoresheets can be downloaded here.
The scoresheet for this award has been devised by the academic judging panel and covers key areas such as the benefit and relevance of the research to the project management industry.
Entering the Geoffrey Trimble award is a one stage process that involves the submission of the full dissertation along with a summary highlighting how the work covers the areas included in the Geoffrey Trimble Awards Scoresheet. This summary should exceed no more than 2 sides of A4..
As well as the scoresheet, the submission will also be assessed in terms of:
• Clarity and succinctness
• Presentational quality
• Communication
Submissions must be accompanied with an Entrants' Cover Sheet.
Previous winners:
2009 Alexander Ritchie - Thales Aerospace and Newcastle University
2008 Paul Christmas - Rolls-Royce
2007 Simon Burke – College of Estate Management
2006 Nick Kay - Manchester University
2005 Daniel Mann - Manchester University
Brian Willis Award - Sponsored by BAE Systems
APM presents this award to the student who has achieved the highest mark of all candidates in the past year’s APMP examination.
Entry for this award is automatic, the results being collated by the APM and then selected accordingly.
Previous winners:
2009 Rachel Bishop-Firth - Foster Wheeler
2008 Steven Boon - Scottish Water
2007 Jaqcueline Sayers – Roche Ltd
2006 Katie Spencer - Department for Constitutional Affairs
2005 Kathleen Noble - Napier University