Shortlisted candidate #2: Xianan Jin (SOAS University of London): The Political Economy of Women’s Political Participation in Rwanda: Gender, Class, and State-building.

Shortlisted candidate #3: Julia Modern Julia Modern (African Studies)  ‘You are all my people’ Building disabled community in Uganda’s microentrepreneur economy.

Shortlisted candidate #4: Jacob Obodai (Open University) The Impacts of Small-Scale Gold Mining on Food Security in Ghana.

We congratulate these 4 shortlisted authors, and hope to see you at the ASAUK Awards Ceremony on 31 August Oxford Brookes .

Delighted that my PhD thesis made it to the AfricanStudiesUK Best Thesis Prize Shortlist. Queen Mary Politics and IR

I was a bit sceptical about the point of voting lobbies until I worked for a cabinet minister, they’re an important place eg for backbench MPs to grab 2 mins with a minister for things that wouldn’t warrant a full meeting or a parliamentary question & to resolve something quickly

Our paper on China's Digital Silk Road is now published in the September 2024 issue of the Journal of Contemporary China. It argues that the Digital Silk Road is better understood as a vague political slogan rather than a concrete geopolitical strategy. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My university, Michigan State University (History Department), is hiring in #African #History this year. Field and time period open. I am on the committee, so feel free to hit me up with questions. Application deadline: 1 October h-net.org/jobs/job_displ…

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Huge congratulations to our new graduates from the School of Politics and International Relations, who graduated last week! 🎉✨ We're so proud of everything you've achieved and we can't wait to see what you do next 🎓

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I am honored and humbled to receive the biennial ASAUK Best Thesis Prize - an award for the best doctoral thesis in African Studies successfully examined in a UK University from 2022-2024. Queen Mary Politics and IR

Did you know that the winner of the #ASAUK24 best thesis prize, Innocent Batsani-Ncube, was also a winner of the 2023 Journal of Southern African Studies Terence Ranger prize, for the best article by a first time ECR author? The winning article is OA: 🔗bit.ly/JSASInnocent AfricanStudiesUK Dr Innocent Batsani-Ncube

Yes! HUGE congratulations to brilliant Queen Mary Politics and IR colleague Dr Innocent Batsani-Ncube on winning the AfricanStudiesUK best thesis prize! 🤩🥳

Innocent Batsani-Ncube Dr Innocent Batsani-Ncube received the ASAUK Best Thesis award from AfricanStudiesUK President Louisa Egbunike Louisa Uchum Egbunike.

We're delighted to share that two of our members won ASAUK 2024 Awards! Prof. Hakim Adi Hakim Adi received the Outstanding African Studies Award, and Dr. Innocent Batsani-Ncube Dr Innocent Batsani-Ncube won the Best Thesis Award. Join us in congratulating them! Read here:bit.ly/3zhi1o3

Great research funding opportunity for postdocs working on Southern Africa 👇🏿