We are delighted to announce Professor Gordon Lynch from the Department of Religious Studies, has won the Faculty of Humanities Research Prize 2016.
The University’s Research Prizes recognise exceptional achievements in research and are open to all research active staff and doctoral students at Kent.
The prize was awarded to Gordon for his work on child migration which examines the ways in which the humanitarian motivations of child migration schemes in American and Britain were implicated in the suffering that children experienced through them. His research includes a new book project, Remembering Child Migration, as well as curating ‘On Their Own: Britain’s Child Migrants’ , an exhibition running at the V&A Museum of Childhood from October 2015 until June 2016, and a music project, The Ballads of Child Migration, which has created new songs by leading British folk musicians reflecting children’s experiences of these schemes. This work has been substantially helped by an AHRC Follow-On Funding award.
Our congratulations to Gordon on his well-deserved prize.