Since 2022, SASNET annualy grants a Lund University student the Best South Asia Thesis Award for an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis in the humanities or social sciences. The thesis must have been submitted and defended by a student at Lund University during the ongoing academic year and received the highest marks. The topic of the thesis needs to be connected to the region of South Asia and at least one of the following countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan or Sri Lanka.
We hereby announce that the Best South Asia Thesis Award of 2023/2024 is granted Dianne Kok for her Master Thesis Household Energy Transition in Metropolitan and Rural Nepal: Analysing Meaningful Energy Transition through the Energy Cultures Framework in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science at LUCSUS.
The prize consists of a diploma and 5 000 SEK.
On 11 October 2024, Dianne Kok will also hold a public seminar about her thesis. You are welcome to attend the seminar both in-person and online.
The Award Committe's assessment:
"The thesis is highly topical and holds great relevance for the academic community as well as for non-academic audiences. While it undoubtedly addresses issues that are of key importance to South Asia as a region, its focus on energy transition has truly global significance. The thesis is based on ambitious fieldwork and sound methodological decisions, and it consistently offers nuanced, apt and problematizing theoretical reflections. While the thesis thereby equals a commendable study that, in innovative and convincing ways, adds to and expands on existing academic scholarship, it also conveys crucial insights that have the potential to translate into policy change and improvement."
