Past Recipients of the PhD Thesis Prize

• 2023: Ghollam Abbas Farasoo, Deakin University, The Impacts of Proxy War on Afghanistan
• 2022 winner: Joshua McDonnell, University of Western Australia, Political alienation and council amalgamations: The effect of municipality size on levels of political efficacy and political participation
  Highly commended: Lachlan Johnson, University of Tasmania, Governing regional industry networks in the knowledge economy: Place, policy, and institutions
• 2021 winner: Lars Moen, Australia National University, The Republican Dilemma: Liberating Republicanism, Sacrificing Pluralism.
  Honourable Mention: Alexandra Edney-Browne, University of Melbourne, The Drone Interface: A Relational Study of U.S. Drone Violence in Afghanistan.
• 2020 winner: Tezcan Gümüş, Deakin University, Turkey’s failure to consolidate democracy and the role of political leaders.
  Honourable Mention: Jenna Price, University of Sydney, Destroying the joint: a case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women.
• 2019 winner: Melissa Johnston, Murdoch University, The Political Economy of Gender Interventions: Social Forces, Kinship, Violence, and Finance in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste.
  Honourable Mention: Christine Winter, The University of Sydney, The Paralysis of Intergenerational Justice: Decolonising Entangled Futures.
• 2018 winner: Luke Kimber Craven, The University of Sydney, Toward A Theory of Food Insecurity: Capabilities, Complexity, and Public Policy.
• 2017 winner: Kcasey McLoughlin, The University of Newcastle, Situating Women Judges on the High Court of Australia: Not Just Men in Skirts?
• 2016 winner: Colombina Schaeffer Ortúzar, The University of Sydney, Patagonia Sin Represas: How an Environmental Campaign Transformed Power Landscapes in Chile.
• 2015 winner: Samid Suliman, University of Queensland, Migration, Development, and Kinetic Politics.
• 2014 winner: Sean Durbin, The Revelation of John (Hagee).
• 2013 winner: Alissa Macoun, University of Queensland, Aboriginality and the Northern Territory Intervention.
• 2011 winner: Scott MacWilliam, Australian National University, Securing Village Life: Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea.
• 2010 winner: Philippa Collin, University of Western Sydney, The Making of Good Citizens: participation policies, the internet and the development of young people’s political identities in Australia and the United Kingdom.
  Honourable Mention: Hannah Murphy-Gregory, University of Tasmania, NGOs, Agenda-setting and the WTO.
• 2009 winner: Moya Collett, University of New South Wales, Transversal Communities in West Africa.
• 2008 winner: Lavina Lee, Macquarie University, Legitimacy and Hegemony: An examination of the nature of the relationship between international legitimacy and followership of the United States in the Gulf Crisis of 1990-1991 and the Iraq Crisis of 2002-2003.
• 2006 winner: Carolyn Henriks, RSSS, Public Deliberation and Interest Organisations: A Study of Responses to Lay Citizen Engagement in Public Policy.