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Indian origin researchers win 2023 Philip Leverhulme prize
The prizes recognise and celebrate the achievements of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition
(L-Amia Srinivasan and R-Ridhi Kashyap) / Image: The Leverhulme Trust
Indian-origin professors Amia Srinivasan and Ridhi Kashyap are among the winners of the 2023 Philip Leverhulme prizes. Chosen from over 400 nominations, the Leverhulme Trust offers five prizes in each subject area: Biological Sciences, History, Law, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Theology, and Sociology and Social Policy.
“In its twenty-second year, this scheme continues to attract applications from exceptionally high calibre researchers. The Leverhulme Trust is thrilled to award prizes to academics undertaking work on an impressive range of topics, from plant evolution to the history of capitalism, family law to theoretical statistics, and the philosophy of science to human trafficking,” said Professor Anna Vignoles, director of the Trust. “We are very proud to support these researchers through the next stage of their careers. Selecting the winners gets tougher each year, and we are incredibly grateful to the reviewers and panel members who help us in our decision-making,” she added.
This scheme commemorates the contribution to the work of the Trust made by Philip, Third Viscount Leverhulme and grandson of William Lever, the founder of the Trust. The prizes recognise and celebrate the achievements of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future careers are exceptionally promising, said a release by the trust. Each prize is worth £100,000 and may be used to advance the prize winner’s research.
Professor Ridhi Kashyap who is in the Department of Sociology of the University of Oxford has been awarded for her work on demographic behaviours. “My research spans different areas of demography, including questions linked to mortality and population health, gender inequality, marriage and family, and migration and ethnicity. I have worked on the demographic manifestations and implications of son preference as one of the most striking ways gender inequality interacts with demographic behaviours. In the areas of family demography, I have been studying the relationship between educational expansion, gender norms, and marriage and partnership patterns in different contexts,” she said.
Professor Amia Srinivasan who is in the Faculty of Philosophy, also of the University of Oxford has been awarded for her work on epistemology, social and political philosophy, feminism, metaphilosophy, and history of philosophy. “I have completed my BPhil and DPhil in Philosophy at Oxford, and before that, I did a BA at Yale. I work on topics in political philosophy, epistemology, the history and theory of feminism, and metaphilosophy,” Srinivasan said.
Srinivasan’s first book, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-first Century, was published in 2021. It was an instant Sunday Times bestseller, winner of the Blackwell’s Book of the Year, and has been shortlisted for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Orwell Prize.
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