Awarded for an outstanding contribution to knowledge on Africa, the Firoz Lalji PhD Thesis Prize is awarded every two years to oustanding PhD hosted at LSE. The winners each receive a cash prize and the promotion of their work by the Institute.
Firoz Lalji PhD Thesis Prize 2022
The Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa is pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural Firoz Lalji PhD Thesis Prize for 2022. Four candidates were selected for a prize by an internal committee of LSE academics for producing high-quality work on the African continent.
Joint winner
Henry Musa Kpaka: Essays on Traditional Institutions and Their Impact on Economic and Political Outcomes (2021).
Joint winner
Richard Stupart: Bearing Witness: Practices of journalistic witnessing in South Sudan (2020).
Director's Prize
Kate Dawson: Shifting Sands in Accra, Ghana: The Ante-Lives of Urban Form (2020).
Director's Prize
Camille Pellerin: The Politics of Public Silence: Civil Society – State Relations Under the EPRDF Regime (2019).
How to enter the prize
The next PhD Thesis Prize will be launched in 2024 for announcement in 2025. Please see the eligibility and application criteria below.
- Dissertation awarded at LSE within the previous two years of submissions opening (date as shown on certificate)
- Any subject from any department is permissible, focussed on Africa
- Dissertation is submitted by the host LSE department, with a letter of recommendation from the PhD student’s supervisor (200 words max)
- No more than 1 dissertation can be submitted per LSE department
- Where a department has multiple eligible candidates, the Institute recommends a decision is made by the department's research committee
- The Institute's decision will not evaluate the number of corrections a thesis required
For more information about the prize, please contact: s.spasenoska@lse.ac.uk
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