This month we are highlighting the recipients of the 2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence and the HDR Impact Prize.
The Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence recognises 12 Doctoral theses a year that have been of particularly high standard and the HDR Impact Prize recognises two Doctoral theses to recognise the quality and impact of research.
Congratulations to all recipients on your wonderful achievement.
Readers can explore winner’s full story – including their research journey, where they are now and advice to current students in the individual feature articles linked below.
2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence Recipients
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2025 HDR Impact Prize Recipients
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