St Andrews Doctoral Students Join First Europaeum Scholars Programme
Thursday 04 January 2018
Great news to start the new year - three St Andrews doctoral students will be among the inaugural Europaeum Scholars.
Caroline Damgaard (School of Geography and Sustainable Development), Stephanie Haywood (School of Management), and Antonia Niehuss (School of International Relations) were among just thirty doctoral students selected from universities across Europe to be the first Europaeum Scholars.
The Scholars programme is designed to produce a new generation of leaders, thinkers, and researchers who have the capacity and desire to shape the future of Europe. The inaugural Scholars programme was launched in Oxford in January 2018 and, over the next two years, the Scholars will spend time in institutions across Europe. The programme will enable Scholars to connect their research with the world of policy making and will focus on three key areas of crucial importance to Europe’s future: inclusion, sustainability, and growth and development.
Only thirty places were available on the inaugural Scholars programme which attracted applications from doctoral students across Europe. Congratulations to Caroline, Stephanie, and Antonia on being selected to take part.
About the Scholars Programme
The Europaeum is an association of twelve of Europe’s foremost universities, including the University of St Andrews. It aims to promote academic links and research collaboration between its partners; in 2017 the Europaeum celebrated the 25th anniversary of its foundation.
The Europaeum Scholars programme is a world-class programme designed to produce a new generation of leaders, thinkers, and researchers who have the capacity and desire to shape the future of Europe. It will run for two years alongside Scholars’ existing doctoral studies. It will be multi-disciplinary, multi-university and multi-locational, and it will engage academic thinking with the cultural, political, and societal challenges facing Europe today. In January 2018 the Europaeum Scholars programme was featured in The Guardian.
Watch Dr Andrew Graham, Executive Chair of the Europaeum discuss the Scholars programme.
Three St Andrews doctoral students are among the thirty inaugural Europaeum Scholars:
- Caroline Damgaard, of the School of Geography and Sustainable Development; Caroline's research explores the interactions of energy and society and the roles of justice, citizenship, and democracy in different energy contexts
- Stephanie Haywood, of the School of Management; Stephanie is researching philanthropy, focusing on the individual decision-making processes involved in philanthrocapitalism
- Antonia Niehuss, of the School of International Relations; Antonia is researching the visuals used in terrorist groups’ communications and the state and media discourses on terrorism, and applies feminist theory to understand how gender is constructed in them
Complete list and biographies of the 2018 Europaeum Scholars.