For the last 11 years the British Council has partnered with UK universities to find ELT Masters dissertations with potential for impact on policy and practice. The scheme, where universities submit one dissertation from their ELT Masters programmes which has already been marked at distinction level and then judge them along with a panel of British Council experts, is designed to recognise and celebrate the brightest minds in ELT at Masters level. By publishing the dissertations on the British Council website, the high quality dissertations become additions to the canon of research in ELT and accessible to practitioners around the world, thereby raising the profile of the authors and universities alike. The scheme is an opportunity for institutions to promote their programmes and for recent graduates to establish themselves in the field.