The HUMLOG Institute's Board Award
Call for HUMLOG Institute Board Award
The topic of the thesis has to relate to humanitarian logistics and supply chain management.
Nominated Doctoral and Master's thesis need to fulfill the criterion of being a "research-based thesis with a good grade from a recognised university".
Submitted Doctoral thesis have to be finished and defended within the time frame of maximum of 5 years prior the nomination deadline
Submitted Master's thesis have to be completed the year prior to the nomination.
Instructions:
Nominations shall be done by the supervisor of the thesis and include the following:
- An extended abstract and/or executive summary in English
- A short reasoning why this thesis is exceptional and nominated for the award including the grade (if applicable) and an explanation of the university's grading system.
- A link to the thesis online and/or an electronic copy. Paper versions are allowed but need to reach the HUMLOG Institute by the deadline.
- The contact details of the nominee and supervisor
Nominations have to be sent to humlog@hanken.fi, deadline for submissions for the award granted in 2024 is February 29th.
Award:
- 1000 € for the best Doctoral thesis
- 500 € for the best Master's thesis
- An invitation to submit an article to the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management Opens in new window and to write an article about your thesis to HUMLOG Institutes blog.
Latest Masters Thesis Board Award Winners
2023 Winner
Margot Rocheteau (supervisor Virva Tuomala)
Medical waste management for more resilient humanitarian organizations
2023 Honorary Mention
Loretta Berger (supervisor Setphan Wagner)
Supply Chain Management in humanitarian forensic action: characteristics and challenges
2021 Winner
Charlotte Girardin (supervisor Stephan Wagner)
Evaluating the Promotion of Innovation in NGOs – Survey and Interview Based Study beneficiary perspective
2021 Honorary mention
Clarisse Debalme (supervisor Tariq Masood)
Humanitarian Operations: Using Big Data and Machine Learning for Managing Pandemics
2020 Winner
Krichelle Medel (supervisor Tariq Masood)
Building resilience in disaster management supply networks through cross-sector collaboration.
2020 Honorary mention
Brenda Farias (supervisors Adriana Leiras & Tharcisio Cotta Fontainha)
Framework for performance evaluation in humanitarian operations from the beneficiary perspective
2020 Honorary mention
Sonja Saari (supervisor Arni Halldorsson)
Renewable energy sources in emergency humanitarian medical cold chain for sustainability enhancing.
2019 Winner
Lisa Swinkels (supervisors Harwin de Vries & Luk Van Wassenhove)
Frequency Determination Policies for Mobile Healthcare Delivery.
2019 Honorary mention
Ramin Satary (supervisor Irineu de Brito Junior)
Optimization of Transport Network of Food Supplies for an international humanitarian organization.
Latest Doctoral Thesis Board Award Winners
2023 Winner
Jonas Stumpf (supervisor Tina Wakolbinger)
Exploring supply chains to strengthen humanitarian operations in times of growing needs, scarce resources, and major disruptions
2023 Honorary Mention
Luiza Ribeiro Alves Cunh (supervisor Adriana Leiras)
Modelling the Dynamics of Humanitarian Operations
2021 Winner
Hella Abidi (supervisors Wout Dullaert, Sander de Leeuw & Matthias Klumpp)
Performance Management in Supply Chain-Application to humanitarian and commercial supply chains
2021 Honorary mention
Mojtaba Salem (supervisor Maria Besiou)
Leadership in Humanitarian Operations
2019
Hossein Baharmand (supervisor Tina Comes)
Designing Flexible Relief Distribution Networks for Sudden-onset Natural Disaster Response
2019 Honorary mention
Tharcisio Cotta Fontainha (supervisors Adriana Leiras & Luiz Felipe Scavarda)
Collaboration strategies in disaster response: a framework and an application (in portuguese)