Student Prize for Feminist Scholarship 2015

The results of the Student Prize for Feminist Scholarship 2015 have just been announced.

The competition was organised by Dr Carolyn Pedwell (SSPSSR), Dr Rachel Calegoro (Psychology) and third-year Psychology BA student, Hannah Elderfield, as part of the Radical Women: 50 Years of Feminism Project at Kent, organised by Dr Heejung Chung (SSPSSR).

Postgraduate Essay Competition

Winner: Sara Janssen, PhD Film Studies
Essay: ‘Sensate Vision: From Maximum Visibility to Haptic Erotics’
Award: Certificate and £200 in prize vouchers.

Runner-up: Jessica Elias, LLM in International Law with International Relations
Essay: ‘Hysterical Deleuze: From Autoscopia to Becoming Woman’
Award: Certificate and £100 in prize vouchers.

Undergraduate Essay Competition

Winner: Lois Donnelly, BSc Psychology
Essay: ‘“I am a woman, not a traffic jam”: The effect of street harassment, self-objectification and safety anxiety on perceived risk of rape’
Award: Certificate and £200 in prize vouchers.

Runner-up: Leah Ringwood-Hoare, LLB Law
Essay: ‘Compare representations of gender in Nightwood and The Lover’
Award: Certificate and £100 in prize vouchers. 

For more details about the competition, see: http://www.kent.ac.uk/50/celebrate/projects/radical-women/scholarship.html