MRS Accredited Masters Award

The award is open to dissertations from students undertaking or who have completed (academic year prior to the award year) a masters degree which is accredited by MRS. The dissertation should be between 5,000 and 10,000 words in length, be research based and include an element of primary research (either qualitative or quantitative). In addition each dissertation must include at least two of the following:

Critical review and appraisal of research literature
Analysis of datasets
Theory building

All dissertations submitted for the MRS Accredited Masters Award must have been assessed within the framework of a Masters programme accredited by MRS. Only dissertations which have been confirmed as passing a University’s assessment requirements may be submitted for the award.

All dissertations submitted to MRS must come via the accredited centre. It is the responsibility of the centre to select eligible dissertations and then submit to MRS. MRS is unable to accept submissions from individual students.

2011 winner

The 2011 winner is Eleanor Marshall for How to Reach Senior Business Executives with Corporate Communications: A Pilot Research Study to Explore Media Habits and Preferences, submitted via the University of Westminster.

What the judges said:

“It was a well-organized paper and not only contained an innovative piece of research into an un-researched arena, but emerged with a rational and usable set of conclusions. Billed as a “pilot research study”, examining different ways of reaching senior business executive via corporate communications, a number of routes forward are opened for researchers in the future.”

Previous winners

2010 – Helen Purser
2009 – Paolo Antonetti
2008 – Dionisios Favatas
2007 – Susan Edwards-Aisuebeogun
2006 – Mia Lorenz