Inclu-Thesis prize
The prize
The award consists of a €500 cash prize for the winner and an honourable mention for the other two nominees. The winner and the two nominees will present their thesis at the municipal council chamber of Ghent City Hall, where the award ceremony will take place. Moreover, the winner will be invited to rework the research results from the thesis for an article that is to be submitted to the editors of DiGeSt and/or Samenleving en politiek.
Who can participate?
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Every master student enrolled at Ghent University can apply until 7 October of the academic year following the academic year in which the master's degree was completed.
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Participants should graduate this year and have passed all the course units and the thesis.
- For the master thesis, the participating applicants must achieve a mark of at least 16/20. The thesis may be about any topic as long as it has an academic and/or policy-related relevance for gender, diversity and/or inclusion-based issues.
Participation and procedure
You can take part by completing the online registration form. Please include a digital version of your thesis written in Dutch or English, along with a brief explanation that covers the following topics:
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Describe your master thesis in maximum 500 words
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Why is it relevant to gender, diversity and/or inclusion?
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Clarify to what extent the work potentially contributes to the societal anchoring of gender mainstreaming, diversity and inclusion and is relevant to policy-making in this regard.
Every year, the jury is composed of a mix of five academics and policy staff. The members of the jury will first make a pre-selection based on the online registration forms, the abstracts and the relating questions. Participants will receive confirmation of receipt of their submission after 7 October and will be notified in early December as to whether they made it to the shortlist, i.e. the list of three nominees. The ultimate winner of the Inclu-Thesis Prize will be announced at the award ceremony - followed by a festive reception - in the municipal council chamber of Ghent City Hall. Should the quality of the entries prove unsatisfactory, the jury has the right not to award the thesis prize.
Accepted entries will be judged on three criteria:
- Academic quality
- Innovative gender, diversity and inclusion-related concept
- Style, readability and gender-inclusive language use