An Annual Award was instituted in Papiya’s memory by Saurav Sen, her nephew, from 2008, in the Department of International Development, Oxford University (UK) for the best M. Phil Dissertation. Those who have won this prize are:
2008 – Alexandra Lowe
2009 – Laura Ertmer
2010 – Kuumuori Ganle
2011 – Andrea Ruediger
2012 – Stephanie Bell
2013 – Felicity Le Quesne
2014 – Santiago Izquierdo Tort
2015 – Lucia Rost
2016 – Michela Mossetto Carini
2017 – Aisha Ahmad
2018 – Rocco Zizzamia
2019 – Nora Cyrus
2020 – Leonie Hoffmann
2021 – Wan Yii Lee
2022 – Carolina Rota. The thesis was a qualitative study of part-time women domestic workers in Mumbai, India.
2023 – Anvita Ramachandran of Jesus College won the Papiya Ghosh Prize for the best thesis. Anvita’s thesis investigated the welfare impacts of internal migration in India, to unpack why migration rates have remained low and static despite the substantial spatial disparities in opportunities and living standards in the region.
2024 – Sive Gaudy of St. Catherine’s College for research in a new transportation system in Lesotho ( Africa) called M- Mama, a digital platform which leverages Vodafone’s telecom infrastructure to connect regular taxis with patients who experience obstetric complications.
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[…] An Annual Award was instituted in Papiya’s memory by Saurav Sen, her nephew, from 2008, in the Department of International Development, Oxford University (UK) for the best M. Phil Dissertation. View the List of Awardees […]