Final Research Project Awards 2024-25

For the 14th consecutive year, IBEI has granted the Final Research Project Awards. The winners of the awards receive €200.

The committee for the selection of the IBEI Final Research Project Awards 2023-2024 agreed to award the prize to students Ilinca Isopescu, Hannah Colpitts-Elliott, Kieran Heid, Lena Stoffer, Nikolas Schaefer and Archie Foster.

Final Research Project Awards 

• Ilinca Isopescu (Master's in International Relations): THE SPACE TO CHOOSE: Investigating the Effects of China’s Economic Engagement in Africa on Voting at the UNGA
• Hannah Colpitts-Elliott (Research Master's in International Studies): Between Repression and Resistance. The Negotiation of Gender-Based Transnational Repression in the Diasporic Space and the Iranian Women’s Movement
• Kieran Heid (Master's in International Security): The Political Origins of Australian Externalisation Policy: Public Opinion and Ideological Transformation of the Centre-Right
• Lena Stoffer (Master's in International Development): “Stop the Gender-Gaga”? Analyzing Anti-Gender Mobilization by the AfD in Germany
• Nikolas Schaefer (Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Public Policy (Mundus MAPP)): Assessing the Influence of Right-Wing Alternative Media Outlets on the Policy Agenda of Ideologically Aligned Parties – The Case of the AfD during the 2022-23 Berlin State Election Campaign
• Archie Foster (Master's in Public Policy): Measures of a Community: Social Cohesion and the Populist Radical Right in the United Kingdom