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PBS postgraduate prizes

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The Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science recognises the exceptional work of our students and awards prizes for each of our taught postgraduate programmes under the following categories:

Hilde Himmelweit award for best overall performance, named after the late pioneer of social psychology, Professor Hilde Himmelweit, one of the founders of our department (formerly the Department of Social Psychology). 

Robert Farr award for best dissertation, named after another founder of the department, and driver of social psychology, Professor Robert Farr. This prize is awarded to students who have produced an exceptional piece of dissertation research.

Below you will find a list of recent prizewinners.

All queries should be sent to pbs.comms@lse.ac.uk

 

Class of 2023/24

 

Hilde Himmelweit award for best overall performance

Sandra Hu, MSc Organisational and Social Psychology

Lex Krishnadath, MSc Behavioural Science

Ben Murphy, MSc Psychology of Economic Life

Natsumi Takani, MSc Social and Public Communication

Joel Woolfenden, MSc Social and Cultural Psychology

Robert Farr award for best dissertation

Rhea Banerjee, MSc Behavioural Science (Joint winner)

Adrian Dolatschko, MSc Social and Public Communication

Benthe Franz, MSc Social and Cultural Psychology

Spasimira Ivanova, MSc Behavioural Science (Joint winner)

Jonathan Iyer, MSc Behavioural Science (Joint winner)

Glory Kasongo, MSc Organisational and Social Psychology

Nastassia Nazarava, MSc Psychology of Economic Life 

Class of 2022/23

Hilde Himmelweit award for best overall performance

Robert Farr award for best dissertation

Class of 2021/22

Hilde Himmelweit award for best overall performance

Lowri Adams, MSc Social and Cultural Psychology: 'The Future in the Face of a Daffodil: An Investigation into Social Representations of the Past, Present and Future of Wales'.

Hannah Bunt, MSc Social and Public Communication: 'Meta-discourses on ‘politically correct language’ in UK newspaper comments: a mixed methods study'.

Shannon Jankari, MSc Organisational and Social Psychology: 'Canadian Healthcare Workers’ Perceptions & Experiences of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion'.

Rebecca Warren, MSc Psychology of Economic Life: 'Effortlessly Happy? A post-feminist analysis of young women’s (re)construction of narrative identity on Instagram'.

Thomas Van Zantvliet, MSc Behavioural Science: 'Digging In: The Long Term Effects of Brexit Identities on Affective Polarisation in the United Kingdom'. 

Robert Farr award for best dissertation

Sarah Chedwari, MSc Organisational and Social Psychology: 'We “Help” Them, But Do We Include Them? Investigating the Drivers and Barriers to Refugee Integration in the Humanitarian Aid Sector'.

Anne Forstmann, MSc Psychology of Economic Life: 'Trapped in Freedom? Linking Dehumanisation and Neoliberal Subjectivity: A Mixed-Method Exploratory Research'.

Mei Mei, MSc Social and Cultural Psychology: 'A Reference-Labelling Approach to Emotion Word Use: Contrasts by Culture and Language'.

Kanishika Padhya, MSc Organisational and Social Psychology: 'Bouncing Back from Adversity: Understanding the Experiences of a Professional Services Firm in Building Resilience to Effectively Navigate through the COVID-19 Pandemic in India'.

Yuliya Stalpouskaya, MSc Social and Public Communication: 'Comparing the evolution of Russian propaganda on Ukraine for Russian-speaking and English-speaking audiences - February to June 2022'.

Thomas Van Zantvliet, MSc Behavioural Science: 'Digging In: The Long Term Effects of Brexit Identities on Affective Polarisation in the United Kingdom'. 

Zhijie Zhao, MSc Organisational and Social Psychology: 'Connecting Identity Leadership and Wellbeing Through Job Crafting: A Moderated Mediation Model'.

 

Class of 2020/21

Hilde Himmelweit award for best overall performance

Alessia Calcabrini, MSc Psychology of Economic Life

Lucy Farrell, MSc Social and Public Communication

Sarah Garrone, MSc Social and Cultural Psychology

Alexandra-Monica Mihailescu, MSc Organisational and Social Psychology

Sharon Raj, MSc Behavioural Science

Rob Farr award for best dissertation

Anita Braga, MSc Behavioural Science

Henry Dowell, MSc Behavioural Science

Francis Elvans, MSc Social and Cultural Psychology: 'Resistance at the precipice of change: A case study ofdefensive mechanisms in right-wing online discourse'.

Yiwen Lou, MSc Social and Public Communication: 'What Moderates the Cliff? Modelling Girls’ STEM Interest between Age 11 and 30 in Finland and Russia'.

Alice Morgan, MSc Organisational and Social Psychology: 'Diversity, Elitism and Exclusion? Understanding Perceptions of Diversity and Inclusion Efforts in Elite City Law Firms'.

Atrina Oraee, MSc Psychology of Economic Life: '“It's Like a Continuum of Explicitness" Using Subjective Evidence-Based Ethnography to Investigate the Experience of Decision-Making in Everyday Life'.

 

Class of 2019/20

Hilde Himmelweit award for best overall performance

Teresa Almeida, MSc Behavioural Science: 'Trust me, I’m a machine: The effect of human appearance on self-reported and behavioural trust in human–agent interactions'. 

Marian Kruger, MSc Psychology of Economic Life

Verena Lossa, MSc Organisational and Social Psychology

Diana Michaelis, MSc Social and Cultural Psychology: 'Self-Continuity and Self-Transformationof the interviewed European and American women married to their Egyptian partners within their transcultural marriage in Egypt'. 

Lucia Urbanikova, MSc Social and Public Communication: 'Reading Story, Eating Healthy? The Effects of the Narrative Versus Informational Nutritional Message on DietaryIntentions and Self-efficacy of Low Socioeconomic Status Groups'. 

Robert Farr award for best dissertation

Sarah Christensen, MSc Organisational and Social Psychology: '"I think I might be a bit wobbly in my corona moral”: An explorative study of social representations and moral functioning during the COVID-19 lockdown'. 

Monica Gonzalez-Gort, MSc Social and Cultural Psychology: 'Beyond safe spaces: Building transformative scenarios in post-conflict societies'

Marian Kruger, MSc Psychology of Economic Life: 'Paving the way for social change: Concrete utopias affect people’s attitudes towards and intentions for change'

Aubrey Lawrence, MSc Social and Public Communication

Nils Mallock, MSc Behavioural Science: 'Comfort in Radicalism? Self-affirmation, Personal Characteristics and Political Violence'.