LSE Africa Dissertation Prize

The Institute is pleased to announce the winners of the Master's Dissertation on Africa Prize for 2021/22. A panel of LSE academics selected two winners for producing outstanding work on Africa. Based in the departments of International Development and Geography and Environment both winners will receive £500 and are invited to adapt their dissertation for the Africa at LSE blog. 

• Fraser Curry, from the department of Geography and Environment for his outstanding thesis, On the land of others: Gardiens and entanglement in a changing Dakar.
• Nora Geiszl from the International Development department for an exceptional dissertation entitled, An Empirical Study of the Impact of Kenya’s Free Secondary Education Policy on Women’s Education. 

• Aaron Atimpe: The Long-term Impacts of State Institutions on Norms of Tax Compliance: Evidence from the Asante Kingdom in Ghana
• Anna Williams: Symbolic Satisfaction of International Norms: Aid-based Incentive Structures and Reducing Gender Equality Change in Post-Conflict Societies
• Ramzi Darouich: Sovereign Default and Military Power: The Case of Egypt
• Imogen Fairbairn: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Museum and Media Texts on the: Issue of Restitution in the UK
• Runner-up award: Vivekah Deerpaul: Squatters, SmartCities and Resorts: Neoliberal Spatial Reconfigurations in Mauritius

We are delighted to announce the following students as winners of our annual dissertation competition for 2019/20. 

FLIA Special Prize - awarded for contributions to decolonising the curriculum: 

• Kristophina Shilongo - Design and Decoloniality: Clout or Cloud? - A Critical Discourse Analysis of Indigenous Knowledge Technology projects

Innovative Research Techniques award

• Simon Marcus - The intersectionality of COVID-19: A Quantitative analysis of COVID-19 in a South African urban settlement

Outstanding Dissertation award

• Naoki Fujioka - Manufacturing or Services – Which Sector’s Employment Growth Benefits the Poor More? Evidence from Rwanda.
• Isabel Paolini - Rights for the Rightless: Synthesizing an Interdisciplinary Framework Explaining Accession to the Statelessness Conventions.

We are delighted to announce the following students as winners of our annual dissertation competition for 2018/19:

• Allison Corkery - Confronting inequality in South Africa through rights-based activism
• Keeyaa Chaurey - Pirates and property: the moralities of branded and generic medicines
• Stephanie Cantor - Designing meaningful employment for Kenyan youth
• Adil Sait - Local economic development and livelihoods in urbanisation
• Tim Hall - The lives of migrant women factory workers in industrialising Ethiopia
• Chitra Sangtani - ‘Sustainable’ futures and state-instigated ruin in Cairo