PhD student awarded DJ Harris Prize for best thesis

Ms Katie Smith been awarded the DJ Harris Prize which is awarded annually to the candidate who is judged to have written the best PhD thesis.

The title of her thesis is "Contract Adjustments and Public Procurement: An analysis of the law and its application". She passed her viva on 27 March 2017 without corrections. Her thesis was supervised by Professor Sue Arrowsmith and Professor David Fraser.

In Katie's words: "I qualified as a solicitor in 2006 and have worked in private practice (specialising in complex procurements such as PFI) and now work in-house as a senior solicitor at a public body. Having completed my LLM in public procurement law and policy at the University of Nottingham in 2012, my PhD allowed me to explore my research interests which are focussed on the way in which procurement law is applied in practice and, more widely, the way in which this can then feed into the future development of law and procurement policy."

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