Responsible Business & Management Writing Competition Tenth Anniversary Year

The chapter is proud to announce the launch of its tenth competition designed to honour and reward student research, writing and other creative endeavours that highlight responsible business and management themes.

Please help us find the most insightful student researchers, writers and creative communicators across the sector.

We continue to offer three categories: Undergraduate, Taught Postgraduate and Alternative Media.  Once again the competition is brought to you by the PRME Chapter UK & Ireland in collaboration with the organisers at Oxford Brookes Business School. 

Competition founder and organiser, Dr Jonathan Louw, of Oxford Brookes, remembers

“taking along a competition proposal to the annual chapter conference in Nottingham in 2016 not knowing what the response would be…. and finding a receptive but not particularly excited response!”.

As he further notes,

“little did any of us realise we were taking the first baby steps of what has turned out to be the most longstanding, continuous, chapter level, student-focused initiative in the whole of the global PRME community”. 

There are some 110 PRME members in the UK and Ireland - and we hope to see entries from all of them in this anniversary year!

The competition has evolved over the years, for example adding the Alternative Media category in year three. This year a structured Entry Form has been introduced in order to: 

• Streamline the processing of a growing number of applications

• Enhance the assurance of academic integrity in the competition 

• Adopt a standardised way of capturing how Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been used in the  student’s work

Very importantly, given the nature of the Originality and Artificial Intelligence (AI) declarations now required, unlike in previous years only students themselves and not their tutors should make submissions.

The competition in outline: 

1. The competition has three categories - undergraduate essays and reports, postgraduate taught Master's level essays and reports, and an Alternative Media category open to both PG Taught and UG students. 

2. The competition is open to a wide variety of disciplines - marketing, economics, accounting, leadership and management etc. In all cases there needs to be a clear link to the Sustainable Development Goals and/or responsible business, management and leadership themes. Some entries fail to prosper because this link is not clear enough; so students and those encouraging them please do remember this requirement.

3. Entries will normally be work already written and submitted by students at their home institution i.e. the competition does not require specially written essays or other artefacts. But students can also choose to develop work on a topic of their choice related to the SDGs/responsible business and management. 

4. There are three prizes in every category, jointly sponsored by the  Chapter and Oxford Brookes University: first prize (£500), second prize (£250) and third prize (£100). Finalists in all categories also receive a certificate of achievement. 

5. Entrants can be from PRME and non PRME signatory business schools - this competition is part of our outreach to the wider sector. 

Full details of the competition can be found in this leaflet.

If you have any questions, just get in touch with Oxford Brookes on prme@brookes.ac.uk

The deadline for entries is 28th February 2026.