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 two 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
Sandra Hu, MSc Organisational and Social Psychology
Lex Krishnadath, MSc Behavioural Science
Ben Murphy, MSc Psychology of Economic Life
Natsumi Takane, MSc Social and Public Communication
Joel Woolfenden, MSc Social and Cultural Psychology
Rhea Banerjee, MSc Behavioural Science (Joint winner): Location impacts on attitude adjustment: Evidence from UK movers
Adrian Dolatschko, MSc Social and Public Communication: 21st century environmental worldviews - a literature review guided by Karl Jaspers’ psychology of 1919
Benthe Franz, MSc Social and Cultural Psychology: "It is a sort of Thought-Soul-Doctor" Social Representations of Psychotherapy in German adolescents
Spasimira Ivanova, MSc Behavioural Science (Joint winner): Shall we meet in VR: Could virtual reality be a better alternative to videoconferencing?
Jonathan Iyer, MSc Behavioural Science (Joint winner): Deepfakes: Exploring the effectiveness and unintended consequences of content warnings on human detection and perception of visual misinformation
Glory Kasongo, MSc Organisational and Social Psychology: "People who look like me… when we talk about EDI we’re seen as self-interested" An Intersectional Lens to Sustainable & Authentic EDI From the Narratives of UK Women of Colour Leaders
Nastassia Nazarava, MSc Psychology of Economic Life: Outcomes of societal transformation through the lens of imaginative utopian thinking. Qualitative Exploration
Class of 2022/23
Annemijn Hofstede, MSc Organisational and Social Psychology: 'Exploring The Impact of Remote Work on Organisational Identification: A Mediated Moderation of Workplace Isolation and Organisational Support'.
AlexandraJohnson, MSc Social and Public Communication: 'Inoculation Hesitancy: An Exploration of Challenges in Scaling Inoculation Theory'.
Jorge Perez, MSc Behavioural Science:'Exploring the Impact of Sentiment, Partisan Bias, and Likes on Truth Judgements of Misinformation through a Conjoint Analysis'.
Vedika Puri, MSc Social and Cultural Psychology
Annabel Ross, MSc Psychology of Economic Life: 'One drop in a limitless ocean: Making sense of tensions presented by sustainability in business decisions'.
Cherry Mae Gonzalez, MSc Social and Public Communication: 'Social Representations of the Philippine Martial Law Years, 1972-1981: A ‘Glorious Past’ or a ‘Period of Struggle’?'.
Katharina Hoffman, MSc Behavioural Science:'The Consumption of Animal Products: A System Justification Perspective'. (Joint winner.)
Ashka Jani, MSc Behavioural Science: 'A New Perspective: a social marketing approach to improve mental health service users’ implicit and explicit attitudes towards mental health workers'. (Joint winner.)
Felix Link, MSc Behavioural Science: 'Does My Neighbour Make Me Hate Labour? Examining the Effects of Residential Context on Political Polarisation in the UK'. (Joint winner.)
Marina Mayer, MSc Organisational and Social Psychology: 'How Movement Moves Us: Embodied Movement as a Mediator of Female Leadership Becoming'.
Corin Roberts, MSc Psychology of Economic Life: 'Investment Decisions in the Age of AI: The effect of decision stakes and perspective on the uptake of algorithmic advice'.
Emily Semmens, MSc Social and Cultural Psychology: 'A critical discourse analysis of how Syrian and Ukrainian refugees are constructed on Twitter in the United Kingdom'.
Class of 2021/22
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'.
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
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
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
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'.
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'.