Dr Malavika Rao, SNSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, has been awarded the Ladislas Mysyrowicz Prize for her PhD thesis.
The Prize is awarded by the Geneva Graduate Institute for a 'an excellent master’s dissertation or PhD thesis devoted to the study of refugees'.
Dr Rao's PhD thesis was titled 'The Principle of Non-Refoulement for Food-Deprived Forced Migration'. It looked at how non-refoulement extends to scenarios in which food deprivation forms a major risk to forced migrants. The thesis will be published as a monograph.
Dr Rao is affiliated with the Department's Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance via a Post-doc Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. She holds a PhD from the Geneva Graduate Institute, an LLM from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor's degree from Christ University, India.
Many congratulations, Malavika!
