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Social Sciences Prizes and Fellowships 2019-2020

2020

  • Dr Keith Hyams from the Department of Politics & International Studies has won the 2020 Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy. Awarded by the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE), it recognises public philosophers working in environmental ethics and philosophy who bring unique insights or methods that broaden the reach, interaction, and engagement of philosophy with the wider public. Read more...
  • Dr Catalina Carpen from Politics & International Studies has been awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project "Using Psychological Insights about Stigmatized Groups to Inform Policymaking and Institutional Design." Her research will focus on the psychological responses of stigmatized groups to policy and institutional arrangements in the UK and Europe. Read more...
  • Dr Charlotte Heath-Kelly from Politics & International Studies has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her project entitled "Neoliberal Terror? The Radicalisation of Social Policy in Europe." The project explores the diffusion of Countering Violent Extremism policies, across European states - and how they have been embedded with social policy. Read more...
  • Dr Akwugo Emejulu from the Department of Sociology has been recognised as one of the UK’s leading social scientists with the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Read more...
  • Dr Katharina Dittrich from Warwick Business School has received a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for her project "Management insights for tackling grand challenges: the case of climate-related financial risks in the financial investment industry." The project will help develop a new theory in the area of management studies on how organisations can tackle large-scale, complex social problems, known as 'grand challenges.' Read more...

  • Dr Richard Moore from the Department of Philosophy has been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for a project entitled “The Communicative Mind.” Dr Moore will explore if the evolution of language is cultural or biological by developing a new account of the relationship between Theory of Mind, language and communication. Read more…

  • Dr Madeleine Fagan from Politics & International Studies has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. Her research project, entitled “Contending Cultures of the Anthropocene: Prospects for Political Mobilisation” will investigate the implications for political mobilisation of contending representations of the Anthropocene across various academic disciplines, popular culture, media reporting and artistic and cultural production. Read more…

  • Dr Laura Lammasniemi from the School of Law has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for her project entitled “Narratives of Sexual Consent in Criminal Courts, 1870-1950.” The project explores how sexual consent was understood in every-day criminal trials before the legal definition of consent, and asks what that legal history can tell us about the very nature of this contested concept. Read more…

  • Dr Sam Adelman from the School of Law has been awarded a British Academy Fellowship for his project “The Role of Rights in Achieving Climate Justice and Sustainable Development”. He will examine rights-based climate litigation – specifically the rights of nature in Colombia, and the constitutional right to a clean and healthy environment in South Africa. Read more…
  • Dr Walter Dean from the Department of Philosophy has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for his project entitled “On the Method of Arithmetization and its Applications.” A central topic in both logic and philosophy are paradoxes such as the Liar, Russell's paradox, and the sorites. A major goal of his Fellowship is to determine if such puzzles can be resolved uniformly by an analogy to mathematical undecidability results in which it is shown that a statement is neither provable nor refutable from given axioms. Read more…
  • Dr Katy Wells from Politics & International Studies has received a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for her project “Renting: Justice and Limited Sovereignty.” Her research will explore the relationship between renting and justice. It will explore the how rental markets are important components of a just society, and the ways in which rental markets need to be regulated in order to be understood as “just.” Read more...

  • Dr Maria Puig de la Bellacasa from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies has been awarded an AHRC Leadership Fellowship for her project entitled “Ecological Belongings: Transforming Soil Cultures with Science, Art and Activism.” It focuses on the cultural aspects of these transformations in the UK. By focusing on our highly industrialised society, she will explore how new ecological cultures are taking shape in response to a crisis of relations with non-human nature. Read more…

  • Dr Patrick Tomlin from the Department of Philosophy has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. The Fellowship will fund Patrick’s continuing research into the important moral concept of proportionate harm or violence. Read more...
  • Dr Daniel Vanello from the Department of Philosophy has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship for a project entitled ‘Shaping Our Moral Identity.’ His research project is the first multidisciplinary investigation in the development of ‘moral identity’, providing a new account of its role in the explanation of moral action. Read more...

  • Dr Amanda Wilson from the School of Law has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. Her project, entitled "Restoring Restorative Justice: Rational Reconstruction via Identificatory Guilt" will pursue a rational reconstruction of restorative justice. Read more...

  • Dr Seb Rumsby from Politics & International Studies has been awarded an ESRC Fellowship to pioneer and advance two projects, building from his experience and involvement with grassroots development research. He will support South East Asian farmers to increase their incomes by improving access to and awareness of an online information network designed to empower, encourage and equip marginalised farmers. Read more...

  • Professor James Fenske from the Department of Economics has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for his work in Economic History and Development Economics. He plans to use award to continue his research into these two fields. Read more...
  • Professor Chengwei Liu and Professor Jerker Denrell from Warwick Business School have been awarded the Best Paper Prize at the Strategic Management Society Conference in Frankfurt. Read more...
  • Dr Parastou Saberi from Politics & International Studies has received a Newton International Fellowship for his project entitled "The urban geopolitics of radicalisation: Prevention strategies from the UK to Canada." It will examine the role that urban imaginaries of poverty play in the construction of the figure of the ‘home-grown radicalised’ individuals, and how it relates to the historical figure of ‘the immigrant’ as a threat in Western cities. Read more...
  • Professor Nick Lee and Professor John Rudd from Warwick Business School have been awarded the James M. Comer Award by the Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management for their paper "Defining salesperson motivation: current status, main challenges, and research directions." Read more...
  • Dr Matthew Spencer from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies has been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF) from UKRI. Dr Spencer will be researching cybersecurity and produce new insights into cyber security practices through ethnographic analysis in Critical National Infrastructure organisations. Read more...
  • Dr Richard Moore from the Department of Philosophy has been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF) from UKRI. Dr Moore will use the tools of philosophy, linguistics, and psychology to develop a new account of the developmental relationship between 'mindreading' and communication. Read more...
  • Dr Angela Aristidou from Warwick Business School has been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF) from UKRI. Dr Aristidou will research the challenges of partnering across sectors, focusing on partnerships between the public sector and third sector, including charities, voluntary and community organisations. Read more...
  • Dr Javier Moreno Zacares from Politics & International Studies has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Dr Zacarés will trace the impact of urbanisation, tenure structures, mortgage markets, and the Eurozone on the formation of housing bubbles in three European countries. Read more...
  • Professor Mark Harrison from the Department of Economics has been appointed as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Harrison is a leading scholar on Russian economic history, the comparative economics of the two World Wars, as well as the historical economics of violence and rule-breaking behaviour. Read more...
  • Dr Khursheed Wadia from the Centre for Lifelong Learning and Professor Danièle Joly from the Department of Sociology have won the W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize for their co-authored book entitled "Muslim Women and Power: Political and Civic Engagement in West European Societies." The prize is awarded annually by the Political Studies Association to the best book in political science. Read more...
  • Professor Pinar Ozcan from Warwick Business School has been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship by the British Academy for her work on market transformation in banking through regulatory change. Read more...
  • Dr Emma Langley from the Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research has been awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to continue her work on the psychological wellbeing of fathers of children with Intellectual Disability. Read more...
  • Professor Juanita Elias from the Politics & International Studies and Dr Chusnul Mariyah from Universitas Indonesia, have been shortlisted for the Newton Prize for their project on eviction and resettlement in Jakarta. Read more...
  • Dr Nicole Beardsworth from Politics & International Studies has been awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project entitled

    "Opposition Coalitions and Democratisation in Africa: Challenges at the Intersection of Parties, Ethnicity, Funding and Personality." Her research will be the first long-term, qualitative study of opposition coalitions across multiple countries, making an original contribution to knowledge and pushing the boundaries of academic and practitioner understandings of opposition politics in Africa. Read more...

  • Dr Henrique Carvalho from the School of Law has been awarded an Independent Social Research Foundation Early Career Fellowship for his project entitled "The Dangerous Essence of Criminal Law: Redefining Criminalisation." His research explores the links between criminal law and justice, punishment, and identity, subjectivity and belonging. Read more...

  • Dr Arianna Ornaghi from the Department of Economics has been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for a project entitled "Who Watches the Watchmen? Local News and Police Behavior in the United States" - a joint project with Dr Nicola Mastrorocco (Trinity College Dublin). The research examines how a decline in news coverage of local crime affects municipal police departments in the United States. Read more...