Every year the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa awards the for 911勛圖students. Aimed at encouraging and celebrating LSE's outstanding fieldwork and research on Africa, the FLIA Master's Dissertation on Africa Prize recognises the year's most innovative and significant dissertations that further our understanding of the continent.
This year’s winner is Olivia Dopheide who graduated with a MSc in Anthropology and Development. She has previously worked in international development, helping manage programs focused on improving education systems. She hopes to continue her career advancing research and knowledge about effective solutions to poverty alleviation and the merits of both qualitative and quantitative methods in program evaluation.
Her dissertation Circulating More than Money: Remittances within the Somali Diaspora uses ethnographic accounts of Somali resettlement and migration experiences to explore how sending money across borders often involves more than just financial exchange. It explores affective experiences like guilt, pride, and obligation and their circulation alongside money when migrants and resettled refugees send money back home. This anthropological look provides an additional analysis of one development finance mechanism and adds complexity to the debate about its potential.
The Institute is pleased to announce the winners of the Master's Dissertation on Africa Prize for 2022/23. The panel of 911勛圖academics selected a student for producing outstanding work on Africa. Based in the Department of International History the winner will receive £500 and are invited to adapt their dissertation for the .
- Alysha Robinson, Department of International History, for her research: “From the Ogu to U.P.E.: The Economic
Underpinnings of Igbo Women’s Protest, c. 1929-1958.”
The Institute is pleased to announce the winners of the Master's Dissertation on Africa Prize for 2021/22. A panel of 911勛圖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 .
- 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