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Postgraduate Students: This is for you! Academics: Please pass this to any students who may be interested Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law (with Hart Publishing and Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association) Postgraduate Dissertation Prize Calling all recently completed postgraduate students! You are invited to enter the second postgraduate dissertation competition organised by the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law. JIANL is the only UK-based peer reviewed journal dedicated to immigration law and the official journal of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association. The competition is an opportunity for us to publish new and exciting work by upcoming authors and for you to acquire early recognition from experts in this specialised and dynamic field of law. The winner of last year’s competition has just published their winning dissertation with us. Submitted dissertations may be on any subject related to immigration, nationality or asylum law and may include international, comparative or socio-legal perspectives. The dissertation must be written in English, submitted as part of a Master’s programme or higher award and have passed through the assessment processes of a higher education institution in the UK or elsewhere in the past twelve months. We would normally expect a Distinction or equivalent to have been awarded and for your submission to be supported by your dissertation supervisor. Initial selection will be done on the basis of abstracts (up to 300 words) with a short supporting letter or email (maximum 200 words) from the dissertation supervisor or another academic who is familiar with the work. A number of candidates will then be invited to submit the entire dissertation (up to 15,000 words maximum) for consideration. The authors of the best dissertations will be invited to adapt their work, with support from the editorial team, for publication in Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law as an article with a maximum length of 10,000 words. The author of the top scoring dissertation will also receive their choice of books published by Hart up to a value of £150 and the runner up will receive books worth up to £75. Please submit your entries by 19th July 2019 to the editor, Dr Helena Wray at [log in to unmask] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://tinyurl.com/fmlist-join-leave List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html RSS: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=forced-migration Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/refugeestudies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/refugeestudiescentre ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FORCED-MIGRATION list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=FORCED-MIGRATION&A=1