Time to find the most insightful student researchers, writers and creative communicators across the sector.
It's hard to believe but we have reached our ninth annual Student Writing Competition - almost a decade of finding and recognising talented student writers, video makers and the like. We continue to offer three categories: Undergraduate, Taught Postgraduate and Alternative Media. Once again the competition is brought to you by the PRME Chapter UK & Ireland in collaboration with the organisers at Oxford Brookes Business School.
There are just over 100 PRME members in the UK and Ireland - and we hope to see entries from all of them this year!
Full details (a 3 page flyer) including judging criteria and format requirements are available here. The first page of the flyer is also designed to function as a stand-alone poster.
The competition in brief:
The competition has three categories - undergraduate essays and reports, postgraduate taught Master's level essays and reports, and an Alternative Media category open to both PG Taught and UG students.
The competition is open to a wide variety of disciplines - marketing, economics, accounting, leadership and management etc. In all cases there needs to be a clear link to the Sustainable Development Goals and/or responsible business, management and leadership themes. Some entries failed to prosper last year because this link was not clear enough; so students and those encouraging them please do remember this requirement.
Entries will normally be work already written and submitted by students at their home institution i.e. the competition does not require specially written essays or other artefacts. But students can also choose to develop work on a topic of their choice related to the SDGs/responsible business and management.
There are three prizes in every category, jointly sponsored by the Chapter and Oxford Brookes University: first prize (£500), second prize (£250) and third prize (£100). Finalists in all categories also receive a certificate of achievement.
Entrants can be from PRME and non PRME signatory business schools - this competition is part of our outreach to the wider sector.
For the second year now we explicitly permit work that has utilised AI tools. But we require all entrants to declare whether (and, if so, how) AI tools have been used in their work . Last year this declaration was often not included and this held up the judging panels.
If you have any questions, just get in touch with Oxford Brookes via the details on the linked flyer or directly on prme@brookes.ac.uk
If any academics in PRME member schools would like to join one of the voluntary judging panels please offer your time via prme@brookes.ac.uk. The panels work in the period 10 March to 20 April each year.
The deadline for submissions is 28th February 2025.
We look forward to your entries!
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