{"id":478,"date":"2014-04-20T15:35:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T14:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=478"},"modified":"2014-05-28T15:59:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T14:59:06","slug":"political-studies-association-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2014\/04\/20\/political-studies-association-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Studies Association Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Benoit Dillet of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/\">School of Politics and International Relations <\/a>has been awarded the Political Studies Association&#8217;s Sir Ernest Barker Prize for Best Dissertation in Political Theory.<\/p>\n<p>The award, to be presented at the Political Studies Association&#8217;s annual conference dinner on 15 April, was for his doctoral thesis, &#8216;The Outside of the Political: Schmitt, Deleuze, Foucault, Descola and the Problem of Travel&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Richard Sakwa, Head of the School of Politics and International Relations, said: &#8216;This is a great achievement for Benoit and recognition of the scholarly rigour and innovation that characterises his work in political theory. Since joining the School, first as an undergraduate on the Bi-diplome in Politics and International Relations organised by Kent and Science Po, Lille and then as a doctoral student, Benoit has contributed greatly to academic life as a researcher, core member of the Centre for Critical Thought, assistant lecturer and co-ordinator of the REF submission. As his thesis and related work is published in the years to come, I have no doubt that this first-rate young scholar will have a significant influence on the development of contemporary political theory.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Benoit&#8217;s thesis was supervised by Dr Iain MacKenzie and the examiners were Dr Johanna Oksala (Helsinki) and Dr Adrian Pabst (Kent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Benoit Dillet of the School of Politics and International Relations has been awarded the Political Studies Association&#8217;s Sir Ernest Barker Prize for Best Dissertation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2014\/04\/20\/political-studies-association-prize\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34788,"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}