Winners of the 2024 PhD Fieldwork Photography Competition Announced

Every year The Department of Politics and International Studies holds a competition to find the best photographs taken by our PhD students during their fieldwork. The photographs submitted to the PhD Fieldwork Photography Competition showcase images which represent the diversity and depth with which our students interact with their subjects and the communities in which they work. This year we received a wonderful collection of photographs, but the judges decided on the following 3 winning images as our winners.

First prize

"An Ahwari family cook Saih bread" by Taif Alkhudary - PhD candidate, Centre for Geopolitics

"An Ahwari family cook Saih bread and grilled fish in the Hawizah marshes in Missan province in an area yet to be appropriated for oil extraction."  Iraq.

Second prize

A pair of youthful refugee friends by Abii-Tah Chunging Bih – PhD candidate, Politics and International Studies

"A pair of youthful refugee friends enthralled with a seamstress featured on a world refugee day poster. The children help one another read and understand the caption and giggle while sharing their ambitions. I was moved by this modest display of the camaraderie and refugee-led humanitarianism that remains the last line of defence for many at the settlement after the UNHCR's discontinuation of cash-based interventions."   Ukende Refugee Settlement, Ogoja, Nigeria.

Third prize

A man pushing a fruit cart by Katie Mann - PhD candidate, Politics and International Studies.

“A man pushing a fruit cart around the corner from Colombia’s Agency for Reincorporation and Normalization (ARN). The normalcy of this man selling fruit in Bogotá stood in stark contrast with the challenges ARN staff had just conveyed about FARC ex-combatants reintegrating into society in rural areas following decades of civil war.” Bogotá, Colombia