The CBR is pleased to announce this prize in honour of Professor Gavin C Reid, a longtime supporter and currently Senior Research Associate of the Centre.
The £400 cash prize, to be awarded annually, is open to early career research staff and research associates of the Centre for Business Research.
The Gavin C Reid Prize winners
Winner of the 2025 prize
The 2025 Prize is jointly awarded to Linda Shuku, for her paper (co-authored with Simon Deakin), “Exploring computational approaches to law: the evolution of judicial language in the Anglo-Welsh poor law, 1691-1834”, Journal of Law and Society, 52: 3-33 (2025), and Zhenbin Zuo, for his paper, “Automated law enforcement: an assessment of China’s Social Credit Systems (SCS) using interview evidence from Shanghai”, Cross Disciplinary Research in Computational Law (CRCL), 2(1) (2024).
Winner of the 2024 prize
The 2024 Prize is jointly awarded to Bhumika Billa, for her paper “Law as code: exploring information, communication and power in legal systems”, which was published in the Journal of Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law (CRCL), 2(1) (2023).
Winner of the 2023 prize
The 2023 Prize is jointly awarded to Gaofeng Meng, for his paper (co-authored with Simon Deakin), “Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system”, published in the Journal of Institutional Economics, and Antonis Ragkousis, for his paper “Amartya Sen as a neoclassical economist”, forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Issues.
Winner of the 2022 prize
The 2022 Prize is jointly awarded to to Dr Mona Jebril, for her report “The political economy of health in the Gaza Strip” and to Dr Helen Mussell for her paper “Reclaiming the relational ontology of the fiduciary and exploring relational ethics”, published in the Journal of Business Ethics under the title “Theorising the fiduciary: ontology and ethics”.
Winner of the 2021 prize
The 2021 Prize is awarded to Tomas Folke for his paper “Replicating patterns of prospect theory for decision under risk” published in Nature Human Behaviour, 4: 622-633 (2020), co-authored with Kai Ruggeri et al.
Winner of the 2020 prize
The prize is awarded jointly to Marco Nerino for his paper “Do corporate governance ratings change investor expectations? Evidence from announcements from Institutional Investor Services” published in Review of Finance, 24: 891-928 (2020), co-authored with Paul Guest, and Senhu Wang for his paper “A shorter working week for everyone? How much paid work is needed for mental health and well-being” published in Social Science and Medicine, 241 (2019), co-authored with Daiga Kamerāde, Brendan Burchell, Sarah Balderson and Adam Coutts.
Winner of the 2019 prize
The CBR is delighted to announce the inaugural award of the Gavin C Reid Prize for the Best Paper by a CBR Early Career Researcher. The prize for 2019 is awarded to Dr Bernhard Reinsberg for his paper “The world system and the hollowing out of state capacity: how structural adjustment programs affect bureaucratic quality in developing countries” published in the American Journal of Sociology, 124(4): 1222-1257), and also as CBR Working Paper No.503.