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Education and Research Awards 2025

| Project Management Doctorate of the Year

This award recognises an excellent doctoral thesis in a project management related subject. Professional doctorates are also eligible in this category.

The doctorate must have been awarded in the academic year 2023/2024 (if you are unsure if you qualify in this academic time frame please contact awards@apm.org.uk for clarification before applying, giving details about your academic years/graduation date/university and course). A doctoral thesis may only be entered into this category once. Entrants can be members or non-members of APM, from both in and outside of the UK.

Entries should take the form of a 1,000-word personal statement OR an 8-minute video (in English), addressing the criteria below. The entry must be accompanied by the full thesis as a PDF document and a supporting letter from the entrant’s supervisor and/or external examiner including confirmation that the doctorate has been awarded.

View criteria   Enter now   Entries close 11 March 2025

Rules of entry

Category criteria and weighting

Contribution to theory  25%

  • Value to academia - The thesis should have made significant contribution to project management theory.

Research methodology and methodological rigour  25%

  • Appropriate use of research methodology to the research question under investigation.

Significance to practice  25%

  • Potential for practical applicability of the research or the relevance of the research to project management practice.

Potential for impact  25%

  • Demonstration of dissemination activities and potential impact.

Societal Impact

Where you feel your work has delivered a societal impact, please include this in your submission. Think about what difference you've made outside of your own sphere of influence. This could be for example around the environment, society, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Judges will be putting forward relevant entries to our new Societal Impact Award.

Enter now   Entries close 11 March 2025