We’re thrilled to share that a paper co-authored by our Director of Praxis, Carol Azumah Dennis, has won the HERDSA Routledge Article of the Year Award 2024!

Based on a Praxis funded project, the article, “Professional doctorates reconciling academic and professional knowledge: towards a diffractive re-reading”, was chosen from 119 papers published in the journal Higher Education Research & Development (HERD) this year. Azumah co-authored the piece with Fiona Aubrey-Smith, Inma Alvarez, Philippa Waterhouse, and Gillian Ferguson.

This award is presented by the Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA), in partnership with Routledge/Taylor & Francis. It recognises research that makes a real impact on how we think about higher education—and the judges praised the winning article for its originality, insight, and thoughtful exploration of professional doctorates.

The article is open access, so it’s free to read and share widely: Read it here.

The official announcement was be made at the HERDSA Conference Dinner in Perth on Wednesday 9 July, and the news will also be shared across HERDSA and HERD’s social channels.

Congratulations to Azumah and her co-authors on this well-deserved recognition—we’re so proud of this achievement!