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18 July 2011
GPPi fellow receives award for outstanding PhD research
On 15 July 2011, the Körber Foundation named GPPi fellow Katrin Kinzelbach the winner of the Deutscher Studienpreis for her PhD work on the EU-China human rights dialogue. The Deutscher Studienpreis is awarded annually for PhD research with particular value to society at large.
The patron of the prize is Norbert Lammert, president of the German parliament. The prize is one of the most prestigious research distinctions for young academics in Germany, awarding first-prize winners €30,000. A jury of distinguished members from academia, politics and journalism chose Kinzelbach as the first-prize winner in the category of social sciences. She was one of 469 applicants.
Currently a Thyssen Fellow with GPPi, Kinzelbach received the award for her PhD research at the University of Vienna on the EU-China human rights dialogue. Based on interviews with diplomats and an analysis of classified documents, Kinzelbach shows that the three-tiered structure of the human rights dialogue – comprising diplomatic talks, expert seminars and technical cooperation projects – has failed to deliver satisfactory results since its inception in 1995. For this reason, she develops recommendations on how EU human rights policy towards China could become more effective.
The Deutscher Studienpreis 2011 will be awarded in a ceremony at the German Parliamentary Society (Deutsche Parlamentarische Gesellschaft) in Berlin on 8 November 2011.
To read the press release by the Körber Foundation (in German), please click here.
For further information, please contact Katrin Kinzelbach.