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Leverhulme Trust awards Indian-origin researchers
Prize winners receive an award of £100,000 (US$ 1,21,510) over two or three years, which may be used for any research purpose.
Amia Srinivasan and Ridhi Kashyap / Image - Oxford
The Leverhulme Trust recently announced 30 researchers whose groundbreaking work spanned diverse fields as the 2023 Philip Leverhulme Prize winners. Among the recipients, were professors Amia Srinivasan and Ridhi Kashyap from the University of Oxford.
From over 400 nominations, five laureates each were honored in Biological Sciences, History, Law, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Theology, and Sociology and Social Policy.
Professor Srinivasan is currently the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, University of Oxford. She was recognized for her exceptional contributions to epistemology, social and political philosophy, feminism, metaphilosophy, and history of philosophy.
Her 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. According to the university, she will use the prize to support the writing of her second book, The Contingent World: Genealogy, Epistemology, Politics.
Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science at the University, Kashyap was honored for her significant work in demography, social statistics, computational social science, digital and computational demography, and gender inequalities. She is the first Oxford Sociology researcher to have been awarded the prize.
Kashyap will use the Leverhulme Prize to continue to develop her work in digital and computational demography, the University said in a statement. She is currently expanding methods to use social media data for mapping subnational population and development processes.
Established in honor of Philip, Third Viscount Leverhulme, and grandson of the Trust’s founder, William Lever, the Philip Leverhulme Prizes showcase the Trust’s commitment to acknowledge and celebrate the outstanding achievements of researchers who have not only gained international recognition for their work but also exhibit extraordinary promise for the future.
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