Herança 2024 Best PhD / MSc Thesis Award

Herança 2024 Best PhD / MSc Thesis Award

Application deadline: 30/09/2024

Dear Candidates.

Dissertations and theses are an important element of the research landscape, adding value to your career provided innovative chapters are included in the Web of Science as research/review articles. This way users are allowed to access published transdisciplinary research.

This substantial update of your research work provides a more extensive literature assessment and recognition, most important for early career studies.

Herança – History, Heritage and Culture Journal (Herança) https://revistaheranca.com/index.php/heranca/issue/view/78 introduces the Herança 2024 Best Thesis Award for students and senior scientists.

The application deadline for the Herança 2024 Best PhD / Master MSc Thesis Award for degrees obtained after 01/01/2023 is 30/09/2024. We are looking forward to applications from all over the world.

The journal Herança (Scopus, DOAJ, WoS ESCI Index) is inviting applications for the 2024 Best PhD / MSc Thesis Award. This prize will be awarded to a PhD / MSc student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential. The content of the theses must fall within the aims, goals and topics of HERANCA History, Heritage and Culture Journal (https://revistaheranca.com/index.php/heranca/about)

The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee led by the journal’s Editor, Prof. Dr. Ioannis Liritzis (Henan Univ., China), and Editorial Members Dr Panagiota Manti (Ionion Univ, Greece), Prof. David Bartosch (Beijing Normal University, China), Prof. Joana Maria Balsa Carvalho de Pinho (University of Lisbon), Assoc Prof. Margarida Pocinho (University of Madeira), Prof. Riccardo Pozzo (Tor Vergata University, Italy), Prof.Yongbin Li (Capital Normal University, China).

Eligibility and Requirements: – The candidate must be a recently qualified PhD /MSc holder;

– The PhD / MSc thesis must have been defended after Jan. 2023.

– The PhD /MSc thesis must be an innovative work;

Required Application Documents:

To be considered for this prize, candidates must submit:

-an executive summary of their PhD or MSc thesis in English (max 2000 words)

-a letter of recommendation from their supervisor and any additional senior scientist support letter

-Their CV including the following information

-a list of publications (if any) related or not to their thesis,

-an electronic copy of their PhD/MSc thesis, and

-a scanned copy of their diploma.

- parts of their thesis have not been yet published (at the time of Award announcement). It is imperative that winners shall submit unpublished material from their thesis to HERANCA for free publication.

Documents should be sent to editor@revistaheranca.com.

Selection Criteria:

-Novelty, quality of the candidate’s PhD /MSc thesis and/or associated publications;

-Motivation of the Candidate for academic potential;

Prizes:

1st. Bonus ($ 800) for best PhD and $600 for Best MSc;

2nd. An electronic certificate;

3rd. Submission of an excellent part of the thesis as the best paper, after peer review, to get published free of charge of Herança after peer review before which month 2025. The No 3 prize applies also to the three (3) first winners.

The application deadline is 30/09/2024. The winner will be announced on the Herança website by the end of October 2024. The earliest deadline of paper submission of winners shall be 30th November 2024. 

Kind regards,

Herança Editorial Office