From 2013, the best PhD Thesis Award has been combined with the best Masters Thesis Award in the best Post-Graduate Thesis Award.
Previous Winners
| Year | Award Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2012 | Ditya Agung Nurdianto, ANU ‘A General Equilibrium Perspective on Energy and Environmental Policies in ASEAN’ |
| 2011 | Md. Sayed Iftekhar, UWA ‘Buying Beetle and Bats: Iterative Combinatorial Auction Designs for Conservation’ |
| 2010 | Johanna L Croser, University of Adelaide ‘An Empirical analysis of Global Agricultural Price Distorting Policies 1960 to 2007’ |
| 2009 | Scott Waldron, UQ ‘Modernising traditional agriculture in China through the development of higher value agrifood chains: the case of the beef industry’ |
| 2008 | Helen Scarborough, ANU ‘The Estimation of Intergenerational Distributional Weights for use in Natural Resource Management’ |
| 2007 | Jared Greenville, Sydney Uni ‘Marine Protected Areas: A Tool for Fisheries Management’ |
| 2007 | Graeme Doole, UWA ‘Value of Perennial Pasture Phases in Dryland Agricultural Systems of the Eastern-Central Wheat Belt of Western Australia’ |
| 2006 | Jean-Marc Kutschuksian, Sydney Uni ‘A Theoretical Analysis of Voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility’ |
| 2005 | Rodney Beard, UQ ‘Ito Schochastic control theory, Stochastic differential Games and the Economic Theory of Mobile Pastoralism’ |
| 2004 | Keflew Mekonnen, UQ ‘The economics of developing water resource projects in the Ethiopian Nile River Basin, their environmental, and Tran boundary implications’ |
| 2003 | Rick Llewellyn, UWA ‘Adoption of integrated weed management by grain growers’ |
| 2002 | Graham Marshall, UNE ‘Crafting Cooperation in the Commons: An Economic Analysis of Prospects for Collaborative Environmental Governance’ |
| 2001 | Thilak Mallawaarachchi ‘Economic-Environmental Trade-offs in the Australian Sugar Industry: Issues of Efficiency and Equity in Land Allocation’ |
| 2000 | Xueyan Zhao, UNE ‘The Economic Impacts of New Technologies and Promotions on the Australian Beef Industry’ |
| 1999 | Raymond Challen, UWA ‘A Transaction Cost Analysis of Institutional Reform for Water use in Irrigation’ |
| 1998 | Ye Qiang, UWA ‘The Economic Significance of New Minerals Projects in Western Australia’ |
| 1997 | Michael Lockwood, UQ ‘Integrated Value Assessment of Natural Areas’ |
| 1996 | Alistair McGorm, UQ ‘An Economic Analysis of the Australian East Coast Tuna Longline Fishery’ |
| 1994-1995 | John Tisdell ‘Estimating Socially-Just Outcomes to Trade in Water Markets: A Cooperative Game Theory Approach’ |
| 1993 | Yiping Huang, ANU ‘Government Intervention and Agricultural Performance in China’ |
| 1992 | Donna Brennan UWA ‘Peak Load Problems in the Australian Grain Distribution Industry: An Economic Analysis’ |
| 1990-1991 | David J Pannell, UWA ‘The Economics of Herbicide Application for Weed Control: Deter ministic, Stochastic and Tactical Analysis’ |
| 1988-1989 | I Coxhead, ANU ‘Technical Progress in Agriculture, Income Distribution and Economic Policy: The Philippines 1950-1980’ |
| 1986-1987 | C Wall, Sydney Uni ‘Modelling a Multiple Output Production System: The Australian Sheep Industry’ |
| 1984-1985 | L P O’Mara, ANU ‘Linkages for the Farm Sector to the Australian Macro Economy – Towards a Theoretical and Empirical Analysis’ |
Purpose
The Best PhD Thesis Award is intended to recognise the most outstanding PhD thesis in the field of agricultural and resource economics.
Amount of Award
The winning thesis will receive a $500 cash award and a certificate to be presented at the Society’s Annual Conference dinner.
Eligibility
All theses accepted (that is, examined and approved) by Australian and New Zealand universities during the 12 months ended 30 September for the award of a PhD degree will be eligible. ‘Accepted’ in this sense means approved by the Faculty concerned, irrespective of the date of conferring of degrees.
Membership of the Society is not a necessary condition of entry.
Entries
Only one thesis may be submitted by any one Department.
The thesis must be submitted by the Department Head at the University at which the thesis was submitted. Three copies of the thesis plus examiners reports and written agreement to the nomination are to be forwarded by certified mail or courier to the AARES Central Office by 12 November. Electronic copies of the thesis will not be accepted.
Department Heads should indicate the relative importance of the thesis in the degree program.
Selection Criteria
The Prize will be made on the basis of academic merit within the field of agricultural and resource economics.
General
In the event of one or more theses being judged to have equal merit, the Prize may be shared. The Society reserves the right to make no award in the event that no entry is judged to be of sufficient merit.
Entries submitted which are considered ineligible by the Prize Committee because they are beyond the field of agricultural and resource economics will be returned to Departments prior to consideration of the comparative merit of other entries.
The decision of the Council of the Society will be final and no correspondence will be entered into with entrants or department heads on behalf of entrants. Submission of a thesis for the Prize implies acceptance of all the conditions of the Prize.
Instructions to the Prize Committee
The system and specific criteria for judging the award are up to the committee.
Ideally, the Committee should finalise their decision prior to the Conference and advise the Federal Secretary of the result so that he/she can prepare a cheque and certificate for presentation at the conference dinner.
The Committee includes three members. Normally, one member is replaced each year, so the usual length of tenure of a member is three years. Normally, each member chairs the Committee in their third year as a member.
From 2013, the Best PhD Thesis Award has been combined with the Best Masters Thesis Award in the Best Post-Graduate Thesis Award.
Prize Committees
| Year | Prize Committees |
|---|---|
| 2012 | H. Scarborough (Chair) / D. Peterson / G. Hertzler |
| 2011 | J. Fogarty (Chair) / D. Peterson / H. Scarborough |
| 2010 | O. Cacho (Chair) / J. Fogarty / D. Peterson |
| 2009 | T. Ancev (Chair) / O. Cacho / J. Fogarty |
| 2008 | C. Saunders (Chair) / T. Ancev / O. Cacho |
| 2007 | Q. Grafton (Chair) / C. Saunders / T. Ancev |
| 2006 | Q. Grafton (Chair) / S. Schilizzi / C. Saunders |
| 2005 | S. Schilizzi (Chair) / R. Hean / Q. Grafton |
| 2004 | R. Hean (Chair) / K. Parton / S. Schilizzi |
| 2003 | K. Parton (Chair) / S. Schilizzi / R. Hean |
| 2002 | P. Hone (Chair) /H-S. Chang / K. Parton |
| 2001 | H-S. Chang (Chair) / R. Kingwell / P. Hone |
| 2000 | R. Kingwell (Chair) /D.P. Godden / H-S. Chang |
| 1999 | D.P. Godden (Chair) / R. Kingwell / A. Rambaldi |
| 1996 | S. Beare (Chair) / D. MacLaren / P. Simmons |
| 1995 | D. MacLaren (Chair) /P. Bardsley / S. Beare |
| 1994 | D. MacLaren / J.O.S. Kennedy / A. Meister |