The Annual Student Essay Competition for 2012/13 has been announced for all students within the School of Economics, UEA. Winning entries will be judged from each of the UG year groups and the PG group and are eligible for prizes up to £1,000. Winning essays will be published in Volume 7 of the Norwich Economic Papers.

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Essay Submission

Submission Deadline: 4.00pm on Friday 1st March 2013. 
Place of Submission: Please submit your essay to Shiona Brereton in the Local Support Office in Arts 2 room 3.63 by e-mail (shiona.brereton@uea.ac.uk) or hard copy. You should also submit a signed cover sheet with your essay which is available from Shiona and the 'Announcement' link on Blackboard. 

Winning essays will be published online in the seventh volume of the student essay e-journal, Norwich Economic Papers. 

Other Rules

  1. Only students in a degree offered by the School of Economics at the University of East Anglia ('the School' in what follows) are eligible to apply.
  2. Joint submissions are possible, but please note that, if students belong to different academic years, the essay will automatically be considered only for the category of the most academically senior student in terms of academic progression in their UEA Economics studies.[1] In case of a prize being awarded to a jointly produced essay, the prize will be split equally among the winners (in case of fractional amounts, prizes will be rounded up to the nearest penny).
  3. Students need to hold copyrights of the essays when submitting them to the School for the competition.
  4. On submission of the essay, students agree to surrender to the School the copyrights of the essay, inclusive of the rights to submit the essay to Turnitin inspection and to publish the essay online.
  5. The School may publish online in Norwich Economic Papers more essays than those to whom a prize is offered.
  6. Each student can submit only one essay.
  7. Essays should be in English and should be submitted in typed form.
  8. Electronic copies can be submitted by email or on a memory stick that will be returned upon downloading the file. It is the applicant's responsibility to provide the School with a valid postal address and email address.
  9. The School reserves the right not to award prizes if essays are of insufficient quality, and/or inappropriate for online publication on the University website, are submitted.

Further Information

If you have any enquiries, please contact Helen Chapman (Helen.Chapman@uea.ac.uk) or Thomas Jordan (thomas.jordan@uea.ac.uk)