Best Article Award Announcement

Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management

The Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management’s Best Article Award is awarded annually to the best article from the previous calendar. The Award and $500 prize is announced at the Tertiary Education Management Conference. The journal publisher, Routledge, kindly make the best article freely accessible. The runners up will also be freely accessible for three months.

The best article is determined based on four criteria:

Relevance to the journal’s Aims and Scope;
Style and readability;
Quality of the research process;
Potential impact to the academic or practitioner community.

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Year	Author(s)	Article	Volume	Issue
2020 Winner	Carmela de Maio, Kathryn Dixon & Shelley Yeo	Responding to student plagiarism in Western Australian universities: the disconnect between policy and academic staff	42	1
2020 Highly Commended	Ian W. Li & David R. Carroll	Factors influencing dropout and academic performance: an Australian higher education equity perspective	42	1
2020 Highly Commended	Sarah Jane Aiston, Chee Kent Fo & Wing Wah Law	Interrogating strategies and policies to advance women in academic leadership: the case of Hong Kong	42	3
2019 Winner	Michael Luckman & Andrew Harvey	The financial and educational outcomes of Bachelor degree non-completers	41	1
2019 Highly Commended	Mingyan Hu, Susana A. Eisenchlas & Sue Trevaskes	Factors affecting the quality of transnational higher education in China: a qualitative content analysis on Chinese host universities’ self-appraisal reports	41	3
2019 Highly Commended	Susan Page, Michelle Trudgett & Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews	Tactics or strategies? Exploring everyday conditions to facilitate implementation of an Indigenous graduate attributes project	41	4
2019 Highly Commended	Melanie A. Beres, Gareth J. Treharne & Zoran Stojanov	A whole campus approach to sexual violence: the University of Otago Model	41	6
2018 Winner	Bradley D. Custer	Applying to university with criminal convictions: a comparative study of admissions policies in the United States and United Kingdom	40	3
2018 Highly Commended	Nomanesi Madikizela-Madiya	Mistrust in a multi-campus institutional context: a socio-spatial analysis	40	5
2018 Highly Commended	Virginia King, Jannie Roed & Louise Wilson	It’s very different here: practice-based academic staff induction and retention	40	5
2017 Winner	Ian W. Li et al.	Equity in higher education and graduate labour market outcomes in Australia	39	6
2017 Highly Commended	Janis Bailey, Carolyn Troup & Glenda Strachan	Part-time work and advancement: a study of female professional staff in Australian universities	39	3
2017 Highly Commended	Andrew Gunn &Michael Mintrom	Evaluating the non-academic impact of academic research: design considerations	39	1

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