CIB’s Student Chapters Committee seeks to advance built environment research by recognizing and rewarding outstanding work of emerging researchers. Accordingly, a Best Doctoral Research Award will be given in 2022 to recognize researchers whose PhD has been confirmed by their faculty advisor between 1 April 2021 and 30 September 2022. Submitted dissertations are judged by an Awards Committee appointed by the CIB Board. In selecting the award recipients, the Awards Committee considers the following: importance of the built environment issue; writing style, readability, and flow; methodology; and the contribution of the research.
Award
The Best Doctoral Research Award carries with it a €1,500 cash prize for the winner and a €500 cash prize each for the 2 top runners-up.
Rules and Submission Procedures
The completed dissertation must have been confirmed by the faculty advisor between 1 April 2021 and 30 September 2022. The award eligibility spread of 18 months will allow for students who might confirm the PhD at the end of the cycle to submit in the following year’s competition; however, students can only submit one time. Those who submitted in 2021 are not eligible in 2022. The author of the dissertation must be a member of the CIB Student Chapter. Doctoral researchers wishing to be considered for the award should submit the following materials to their University CIB Student Chapter Faculty Liaison:
Each University with an active Student Chapter may only select 1 doctoral thesis/dissertations to submit to CIB for consideration. Therefore, individual Universities and CIB Student Chapters must decide the process for selecting the lone nominee. The University’s CIB Student Chapter Faculty Liaison should submit the required materials for the nominee as an email attachment by the deadline to [email protected] NO LATER THAN Monday 3 October 2022.
Selection
An Awards Committee selected by the CIB Board will evaluate all applications. The top 3 doctoral researchers will be notified by 31 October of their selection. They will be invited to deliver a presentation in November 2022 to compete for the CIB Best Doctoral Thesis/Dissertation Award. Presentations will last 5 minutes and will be followed by a question and answer period with the judges. We envision the event open to all CIB members. A winner’s webinar will be held in early 2023.
2021 Results
Results of the 2021 competition can be found here, with the final presentations on CIB’s YouTube channel.
