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Postgraduate Dissertation Blog Award 2025

After submission of PGT dissertations, postgraduate students were invited to share a blog about their dissertation research of a maximum of 800 words, written for a general readership.

The judging panel members were looking for key insights such as:

  • What was your main research question, and did you find answers or better questions?
  • Did anything surprise you or give you new perspectives?
  • And what did you learn in analysing your findings?

Read the 2025 blogs below:

Judith Akoto (winner) - 'Clothes That Never Die: How Ghana Lives with the World’s Waste'

TTextile waste turned into a mop. Image by: OR Foundation – Ghana.

Ioana Dobre (runner-up) - 'When we love and care across borders: practices of love and care for Romanian father-away families in Italy and the UK'

Photo of two people backlit against a sunset in Naples, Italy. Their faces are covered by heart emojis.

Bunthicha Larlarb - 'Rethinking Laboratory of Care: Atomic Habits Toward a Sustainable Healthcare System'

Petri dishes at NHS Newcastle Upon Tyne: Integrated Laboratory, May 2025. Photo by Bunthicha Lalarb.

Tiancheng Yu - Partnering with Deities: The Modernization Path of Chinese Shaman - “Chuma Xian”

Side on view of the Anthropology and Archaeology metal sign outside the Dawson Building. Some people are going in and out of the building door in the background.

Postgraduate Dissertation Blog Award 2024

Take a look at the entries from our 2024-25 cohort below!

Beyond Profit: Exploring the Landscape of Sustainability at Small Businesses in County Durham

Read 'Beyond Profit: Exploring the Landscape of Sustainability at Small Businesses in County Durham' by Shatakshi
WAAD 1

Blossoms Falling from the Branches: The Struggle for Belonging among Female New Migrants in Urban China

Read 'Blossoms Falling from the Branches: The Struggle for Belonging among Female New Migrants in Urban China' by Yanxi Chen
WAAD 2

Decommissioning and the Reproduction of Capitalism in the North Sea Oil and Gas Industry

Read 'Decommissioning and the Reproduction of Capitalism in the North Sea Oil and Gas Industry' by Ava Rawson
WAAD 3

The ‘International Student’ and Generative AI: An Anthropological Study of Generative AI Adoption Among Non-Native Speaking Post-Graduate Students

Read 'The ‘International Student’ and Generative AI: An Anthropological Study of Generative AI Adoption Among Non-Native Speaking Post-Graduate Students' by Jospeh Doyle
WAAD 1

Tri Hita Karana: Community Acceptance in Renewable Energy (RE) projects In Bali”

Read 'Tri Hita Karana: Community Acceptance in Renewable Energy (RE) projects In Bali”' by Alvianni Mahmudah
WAAD 2

Postgraduate Dissertation Blog Award 2023

'Dear Green City': Urban greening, wellbeing, and community in Glasgow - Iona Wilson

iw blog

The Song of the Valley: my fieldwork in Resia and the folkporous tapestry of its collective memory - Beatrice Messuti

BM BLOG

Clean cooking fuel transition challenge in Cameroon - Adeline Titashipu

Cameroon Blog

In sickness and in wealth – detox products in the UK - Scarlett Whitford-Webb

SWW BLOG

‘Should Child Work be Prohibited by International Law? Child Work and the Educational Context in Southern Zimbabwe’. - Josephine Thomas

Zimbabwe

More student blogs can be found here!

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