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Social Sciences Prizes and Fellowships 2017-2018

2018

  • Professor Loizos Heracleous from Warwick Business School has been awarded the Douglas McGregor Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Applied Behavioural Science. His paper, entitled "Open Strategy-Making at the Wikimedia Foundation: A Dialogic Perspective" explores the role of dialogue in open strategy processes in the context of the development of Wikimedia’s five year strategy plan. Read more...
  • Dr Maurice Stierl from Politics and International Studies has received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his project "The EU’s contested forms of Border Governance in the Mediterranean Sea." He will investigate emerging forms of EU border governance in the Mediterranean Sea, which evolve in conflictual processes, often situated between humanitarian rescue logics and the enactment of migrant deterrence. Read more...
  • Dr Temitope Akinremi from Warwick Business School has been awarded an ESRC Innovation Fellowship for her project entitled Diffusing Excellence Across UK Foundries and Metal-Forming Firms." A key ambition of the Industrial Strategy is to close the gap between the UK's most productive companies and the rest. Her Fellowship aims to identify innovations which have led to significant productivity improvements in leading-edge firms and explore barriers and incentives for diffusing these innovations across the sector. Read more...
  • Professor Georg Lofflmann from Politics and International Studies has received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a project exploring the interlinkage of security discourses and populist rhetoric in the United States under the Trump presidency. Read more...
  • Dr Lena Rethel from Politics and International Studies has received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for her project entitled "Markets as Spectacles? Principles, Practices & Governance of Islamic Economies." Her research focuses on the growth of transnational Islamic economic flows and their governance. Read more...
  • Professor John Solomos from the Department of Sociology has been presented with a Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award - an award made each year by the British Sociological Association to an outstanding individual who has contributed greatly to the discipline. Read more...
  • Dr Andi Hoxhaj from the Law School has won a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award. The award will support Dr Hoxhaj’s work on anti-corruption policy and the rule of law with a particular focus on the Western Balkans, the UK and the EU. Read more...
  • Professor Ana Galvao from Warwick Business School has been appointed as a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to its Economic Experts Working Group for two years. Read more...
  • Professor Graeme Currie from Warwick Business School has been appointed as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His work includes research on leadership, innovation, strategic change, knowledge mobilisation and management. Read more...
  • Professor Bo Chen from Warwick Business School has been appointed as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Chen has been at the forefront of operational research and management science for more than 20 years. Read more…
  • Dr Arie Gozluklu from Warwick Business School has been awarded a British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship for his project entitled "Peso Problems, Market Expectations and Currency Risk." The project aims to investigate the effect of Peso Problem episodes, i.e. anticipated discrete shifts in economic fundamentals, on financial markets. Read more...
  • Professor Graeme Currie and Professor Bo Chen from Warwick Business School have been appointed Fellows by the Academy of Social Sciences. Read more...
  • Professor Arne Strauss and Professor Xuan Vinh Doan from Warwick Business School have been appointed Fellows by the Alan Turing Institute. Read more...
  • Professor Gary Watt from Warwick Law School has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. He will test his theory that law’s activities, especially advocacy and judgment in courts, are better appreciated as creative and artistic processes of production, rather than scientific processes of fact-finding. Read more...
  • Dr Carrie Benjamin from the Department of Sociology has received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for her project entitled "Multisensory Encounters with Whiteness: Public Space, Race and the Senses." Her research explores the relationship between public space and whiteness in France through a multisensory lens. Read more...
  • Professor Victor Tadros from Warwick Law School has been made a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of his work on the philosophy of criminal law, the philosophy of war and legal, moral and political philosophy. Read more...
  • Dr Lucy Campbell from the Department of Philosophy has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to develop a new approach to understanding propositional knowledge called ‘Epistemological Pluralism.’ Her research interests lie in the philosophy of mind and action, in epistemology, and – especially – in the intersection of these areas. Read more...

  • Professor Celia Lury from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies has been elected as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Fellowships are awarded annually to recognise leading social scientists, who are judged on the excellence and impact of their work in using social science for public benefit. Read more...
  • Professor Shaun Breslin from Politics and International Studies has received a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled "China risen? What is global power (and in what ways does China have it)?" Read more...
  • Dr Ana Aliverti from Warwick Law School has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize to support her existing research on the novel configurations of law enforcement in a global age. She will spend the next two years researching police-immigration cooperation in domestic policing in the UK. Read more...
  • Dr Alice Mah from the Department of Sociology has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize to conduct multi-site field research in polluted industrial regions. She will focus on researching and writing her next monograph on global environmental injustice. Read more...
  • Dr John Michael from the Department of Philosophy has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize to investigate people’s allocation of effort in joint actions as a function of their sense of commitment. Read more...
  • Professor Ben Clift from Politics and International Studies has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled "The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and the Politics of UK Growth amidst Brexit, Uncertainty and Austerity." Read more...
  • Professor Dallal Stevens from Warwick Law School has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to explore access to refugee protection in the Middle East. Read more...