The competition was open to all articles that were published in international peer-reviewed journals in 2018, either electronically (must have a doi number) or in print, by Warwick Psychology PhD students who met certain conditions.
The conditions were that (a) the student is the first author of the article; (b) the student did not submit their PhD thesis before 2018; and (c) the publication is based on research that was conducted during the student’s doctoral studies at the University of Warwick.
This is what the judging panel (Professor Sotaro Kita and Professor Adam Sanborn) said about the award-winning publication:
Dantchev, S., Zammit, S., & Wolke, D. (2018). Sibling bullying in middle childhood and psychotic disorder at 18 years: a prospective cohort study. Psychological Medicine, 14, 2321-2328. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291717003841
“The previous research has shown that bullying increases the risk of developing mental health problems later in life. This paper, for the first time, showed that sibling bullying during middle childhood increases the risk of psychosis in early adulthood. This was shown through sophisticated statistical analysis of the birth cohort data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. This finding is important because it highlights the need for a process that allows parents and health professionals to identify and reduce sibling bullying.”
Dr Dantchev’s PhD was supervised by Professor Dieter Wolke