2023 Prize Winners

Thank you to all who submitted to our student award scheme this year. It has been such a challenging year, but the quality of work submitted was fantastic. We would like to congratulate again each of the winners. As you can see the feminist future of psychology is very bright. The winners presented at our annual POWES conference!

As a reminder, each submission is anonymised before being reviewed independently by reviewers & judges from POWES. Full details of the reviewing process & our criteria are available here.

PG Gender Inequalities Award Winner (in collaboration with Feminism & Psychology)

Hanna Akalu 
‘Reclaiming Our Narrative’: A Photovoice Project Exploring Psychological Self-Empowerment and with Muslim Women in Britain.

UG Gender Inequalities Award Winner

Rylee Spooner
Exploring Lesbian Internalised Homophobia and Self-Harming: A Thematic Analysis

Read Rylee’s blog post on their experiences submitting to the competition and subsequently winning a spot at the conference!

We hope you will see this work in its finished form in POWER, Feminism & Psychology or elsewhere!