2023 Best Paper Award Competition

The College of Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management (HOCM) is pleased to announce the 2023 Best Paper Award Competition results. This year, the competition continues with impressive, high-quality submissions and topics. For this reason, we want to thank the authors for their valuable contributions and referees for reviewing and determining the finalists and winners.

The finalists' (honorable mention) papers for this year's competition were (in order of abstract numbers) were as follows:

Title: Aiming for Research and Practice Impact in Humanitarian Operations: A Critical Review, Challenges, and Opportunities
Authors: Erica Gralla and Maria Besiou

Title: Tweet in Unison? Examining Content Coordination and Social Media Engagement during Disasters
Authors: Changseung (Chang) Yoo, Eunae Yoo, Lucy Yan, and Alfonso J. Pedraza-Martinez.

The runner-up of the competition this year:

Title: To Earmark or to Non-Earmark? The Role of Control, Transparency, and Warm-Glow"
Authors: Özalp Özer, Gloria Urrea and Sebastian Villa.

Finally, the winning paper in this year's HOCM Best Paper competition is:

Title: Market Systems in a Humanitarian Crisis: Making Food More Affordable and Available
Authors: Tristan Downing, Jarrod Goentzel, and Maria Besiou.

Congratulations to the winners and finalists!!!