This year's competition has been extremely impressive with research into English Language Teaching themes such as CEFR statements, linguistic diversity and online gaming for English language learning, covering a wide range of contexts such as Belarus, Poland, Rwanda and Brazil.

For the last three years, the British Council has partnered with UK universities to find the best ELT Master's dissertations. The scheme, where universities submit the best dissertation from their ELT Master's programmes and then judge them along with a panel of British Council experts, is designed to recognise and celebrate the brightest minds in ELT at Master's level.