Previous Award Winners
Doctoral Scholarships Awards Archive
The following candidates have received the SAP Doctoral Scholarships award.
- 2023: Lorenzo Elijah (University of Oxford) and Kristine La Cour (University College London).
- 2022: Alex Fisher (University of Cambridge), Emilia Wilson (University of St Andrews), Dilara Boga (Central European University (Vienna))
- 2021: Virginia De Biasio (University of York), Anna Milioni (King’s College London), Leora Sung (University College London)
- 2020: Daniella Meehan (University of Glasgow), Lee Wilson (University of Edinburgh), and Joshua Kelsall (University of St Andrews)
- 2019: Joseph Bowen (University of St Andrews & University of Stirling), Korbinian Rüger (University of Oxford), and Leonie Smith (University of Manchester)
- 2018: Adina Covaci (University of Leeds) and Pilar Lopez-Cantero (University of Manchester)
- 2017: Benjamin Lange (University of Oxford) and Areti Theofilopoulou (University of Oxford)
- 2016: Anthony Taylor (University of Oxford) and Constanza Porro (King’s College, London)
- 2015: Julia Mosquera (University of Reading) and Rowan Mellor (University College, London)
- 2014: Eliana Zur-Szpiro (University College, London) and Christine Hobden (University of Oxford)
- 2013: Elizabeth Finneron-Burns (University of Oxford) and William MacAskill (University of Oxford)
- 2012: Joanna Firth (University of Oxford), Chris Malone (University of Oxford), and Natasha McKeever (University of Sheffield)
- 2011: Natasha McKeever (University of Sheffield) and Guy Sela (University of Oxford)
- 2010: Jesse Tomalty (University of St Andrews)
- 2009: Alexandre Erler (University of Oxford)
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University of Edinburgh, JMCC
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