There's been much to celebrate at 杏吧论坛 Gender this year. We're delighted to share details of awards, honourable mentions and nominations that our Department, faculty and PhD researchers have received in 2022:
The were announced in May. These awards are designed to allow students to recognise the Departments and members of staff who have made a difference to their time at 杏吧论坛 and say thank you to staff members who have made a positive impact.
We're overjoyed to have been named winner of the 杏吧论坛SU Award for Departmental Excellence.
Jacob Breslow was given the Award for Inclusive Education. You can read his reaction to the news on the .
Milo Bettocchi was named winner of the Class Teacher Award, while Niharika Pandit was highly commended.
The awards and prizes were announced in June.
Sumi Madhok was awarded The Susan Strange Book Prize for her book: ': The Politics of Origins, Human Rights and Gendered Struggles for Justice':
Our Visiting Professor Shirin Rai was awarded the Distringuised Contribution Prize.
Hannah Wright was nominated for an honourable mention in relation to the Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize for her PhD thesis: "The Making of Militarism: Gender, Race and Organisational Cultures in UK National Security Policymaking".
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Sumi Madhok is also the winner of the 2022 Sussex International Theory Prize for her book 'Vernacular Rights Cultures: The Politics of Origins, Human Rights and Gendered Struggles for Justice'.
In the prize statement, the said: "Vernacular Rights Cultures presents an original and powerful intervention in human rights theory and charts new paths for ‘decolonising’ international political thought through an engagement with vernacular rights mobilizations in ‘most of the world’.