This prize is awarded to a team of researchers representing two or more disciplines, who have come together to address a complex and significant problem. We will consider all aspects of academic activity candidates wish to submit, including the influence of publications and dissemination, non-academic impact and public benefit, and innovation in academic and applied work.
Alexander Stoffel (QMUL, School of Politics and International Relations) and Ida Roland Birkvad (LSE) are Early Career Researchers. Together they have built a distinctive and pioneering transfeminist research agenda, at the intersection of Gender Studies and International Relations.
Through an agenda-setting series of research papers, an accessible blog and podcast and a programme of events with internationally renowned scholars, Stoffel and Birkvad have established a new field with timely resonance which has already influenced teaching and practice.
They have developed their research agenda and activities in a collaborative, inclusive way inspired by their subject. In part prompted by their students’ desire for more feminist, trans and queer theory teaching in IR, they have sought to build a research community that reflected the need for a more inclusive approach and syllabus in international politics.
Stoffel commented “This is what interdisciplinarity means to us: not the extraction of knowledge by one discipline from another, but the institutionalisation of synergetic exchanges… to bring innovative solutions to knowledge, teaching and research culture”.
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