2020 Awards

Outstanding Service to Higher Education Award

Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education

Dr. Enakshi Sengupta​

Dr. Enakshi Sengupta is the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and an Associate Professor of Business at The University of Afghanistan. Dr. Sengupta has 25 years of experience in both corporate and academic fields and a Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham (UK). Over the past decade, Dr. Sengupta has made several important contributions to the field of higher education, including​ serving as the editor and chapter author of 2​5​ ​academic textbooks on issues critical to higher education, developer ​of ​​the ​HETL Country Directors ​Program, and serving as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education.

JARHE Literati Awards

The Outstanding and Highly Commended Paper Awards have been the backbone of the Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence. The winners are chosen by the journal editorial team giving the winning authors confidence in knowing that their paper was one of the most impressive pieces of work from the previous year’s volume.

Judging criteria include:

  • Research creates impact and generates real change beyond academia
  • Contribution of something new to the body of knowledge
  • Well-written – excellent structure and presentation
  • Rigour in terms of argument or analysis
  • Relevance – to practice and further research, in most cases
  • Up-to-date – demonstrating that the latest/key works in the field have been cited

Outstanding Paper
Modeling of student academic achievement in engineering education using cognitive and non-cognitive factors
Bothaina A. Al-Sheeb, A.M. Hamouda, Galal M. Abdella

Highly Commended Papers
Assessment of academic stress and coping strategies among built environment undergraduate students in Nigerian higher education
Joshua Oluwasuji Dada, Solomon Olusola Babatunde, Racheal Oluwatoyin Adeleye

Identifying essential competencies for medical students
Xiangyun Du, Salah Eldin Kassab, Ayad M. Al-Moslih, Marwan Farouk Abu-Hijleh, Hossam Hamdy, Farhan Sachal Cyprian

Outstanding Reviewers
Yehya Alkhoudary
lina JASSIM
Vasiliki Brinia

IHETL Literati Awards

Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning Book Series

Judging criteria:

  • Research creates impact and generates real change beyond academia
  • Contribution of something new to the body of knowledge
  • Well-written – excellent structure and presentation
  • Rigour in terms of argument or analysis
  • Relevance – to practice and further research, in most cases
  • Up-to-date – demonstrating that the latest/key works in the field have been cited

Outstanding Author Contribution

Global Perspectives on Academic Integrity
Constance Bygrave, Özen Aşık
Rethinking the Support Programmes for the Marginalised Students in Higher Education Through the Lens of Social Justice
Shuti Steph Khumalo