AsSIST-UK awards an annual prize for a Ph.D. thesis that demonstrates outstanding quality in the STS/Innovation Studies field. The prize has been dedicated to the memory of AsSIST-UK co-founder, Prof. Andrew Webster, who died in 2021.
The 2023 prize of £250 was awarded to Dr. Rodrigo Liscovsky for his
thesis awarded by the University of Edinburgh entitled
“Internationalisation Dynamics in Contemporary South American
Life Sciences: the Case of Zebrafish”. The judges agreed that
Rodrigo’s thesis develops a novel critical perspective on academic
discourse and practices of research internationalisation, bridging
fields, methods and views from the Global North and South, with
relevance both to academic discourse on the internationalisation of
research and education and to science policy and practice, in the best
traditions of Andrew Webster’s own work.
This year several theses scored very close, and the judges therefore also commended the following authors for their impressive and novel work:
Dr. Andrey Elizondo Solano – Orchestration Spaces in Inter-Organizational Developments of Information Infrastructures: Early orchestration of a large-scale regional interoperability infrastructure in NHS England
Dr. Julius Kob – Realising Catastrophe: The Financial Ontology of the Anthropocene
Dr. Benjamin Weil Bad Blood: A Critical Inquiry into UK Blood Donor Activism