Previous prize winners

2020-2021 winners

  • UG Gender Inequalities Winner: Catherine Davies (Michigan State University) ‘”Find what makes you comfortable, find what makes you euphoric”: A thematic analysis centring trans and non binary voices in understandings of gender construction’
  • PG Winner: Siouxsie Bytheway (University of Gloucestershire) ‘Heteronormative discourse: Therapist social constructions of intimate partner violence in queer relationships’

2019-2020 winners

  • UG Gender Inequalities Winner: Gillian Ang (Wei2.Ang@live.uwe.ac.uk) ‘Discursive Construction of Sexual Assault: A Qualitative Analysis of News Media Reporting of ‘the Kavanaugh Case’
  • UG Spotlight on Inequalities Winner: Reem Michael (reem_michael@hotmail.co.uk) ‘I Shouldn’t Have to Prove Myself’: The Experiences of Black Women at Russell Group Universities
  • PG Winner: (in collaboration with Feminism & Psychology): Leola Meynell (leola.meynell@gmail.com) ‘Losing our gendered griefs? Women’s postfeminist narratives of higher education and intimate partner relationships’

2018-2019 winners

  • UG winner: Amy Middleton (Middleton5@uni.brighton.ac.uk) for their submission titled: ‘Feminazis’: A Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis into the Mainstream Media’s Representations of Feminist Activism
  • PG winner: Ulandi du Plessis (ulandidup@gmail.com ) for their submission titled: ‘Governing pregnancy in the Global South: An analysis of techniques to reduce maternal mortality in the South African public health system’.

2017-2018 winners

  • PG winner: Gabriela Pinheiro gabrielasofiapinheiro@gmail.com “Not my boxes anyway”: Textual Intersections of Gendered, Sexual and Racial Identities in Post-Apartheid South Africa”
  • UG winner: Jade Farley jfar036@aucklanduni.ac.nz: “Women and anger in the late 1970’s UK punk scene”

The published write ups of the 2014 prize winners Cathy Ure (PG) and Jen Tidman (UG) can be found in this issue of POWSR