International Federation of University Women

IFUW's fellowships programme makes it possible for women graduates to complete exciting research in many important fields. They are exploring new frontiers in medicine, analyzing the impact of global trends on women and children and assessing conservation efforts. Many are working in areas directly related to IFUW priority issues. Their studies will have far-reaching benefits, not just for their own careers, but for the communities and countries from which they come.

IFUW is proud to announce the winners of the 2008/2009 IFUW fellowships competition:

Midori SATO (Independent, Japan) - British Federation Crosby Hall Fellowship of £2500. Policy process evaluation of free essential health care for the poor and marginalized in Nepal. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, England.

Anke KREY (Independent, Germany) - CFUW/A. Vibert Douglas Fellowship of 12,000 Canadian dollars. Neurochemical disruption associated with mercury exposure in ringed seals & polar bears. University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.

Cristina CAMMARANO (Independent, Italy) - Ida Smedley Maclean Fellowship of 10,000 Swiss francs. Teacher education for a multicultural classroom: Suggestions for a philosophy of multicultural education for teachers. Columbia University, USA.

Alma PEKMEZOVIC (Australia) - Ida Smedley Maclean Fellowship of 10,000 Swiss francs. SJD degree in comparative corporate governance. La Trobe University, Australia and Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.

Eshani Samantha RUWANPURA (Sri Lanka) - Marjorie Shaw International Fellowship of £3500. Socio-cultural constructions of sexuality: implications for the reproductive health status of young Sri Lankan women. University of Edinburgh and Queen Margaret University, Scotland.

Carla BRAGA (Independent, Mozambique) - Ruth Bowden International Fellowship of 8000 Swiss francs. Pregnant women in Central Mozambique: Biopower, transnational governmentality & women’s experience of living with AIDS. State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.

Dalma DEMETER (Independent, Hungary) - Australian Universities Grant of 5000 Swiss francs. Cohabitation & conflict between different sources of norms governing international commercial arbitration. La Trobe University, Australia

Chinwe UZOECHINA (Independent, Nigeria) - Dorothy Leet Grant of 6000 Swiss francs. Female genital mutilation as it affects the health of women & young girls . Memorial University, Canada. (Masters)

Sinith SITTIRAK (Thailand) - NZFGW Daphne Purves Grant of 3000 Swiss francs. The politics of knowledge production in the Thai women’s movement: A critical postcolonial-feminist reclaiming of subaltern knowledge utilizing the grassroots archives of Pornpel Meuansri, a farmer woman. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Esmat Samir ZAGHLOUL (Egypt) - Winifred Cullis Grant of 6000 Swiss francs. Helicopter blades & wind turbine aeromechanical design. Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Btihaj AJANA IFUW Recognition Award

Einat ALBIN IFUW Recognition Award

Sandra Bibiana CORREA IFUW Recognition Award

Arwen CROSS IFUW Recognition Award

Btihaj AJANA (Independent, France/Morocco) - IFUW Recognition Award of 1000 Swiss francs. Biopolitics & bioethnics of biometrics: ID cards & the will to low risk identities . London School of Economics, England.

Einat ALBIN (Israel) - IFUW Recognition Award of 1500 Swiss francs. Revisiting the universal approach adopted in labour-protective legislation: A socio-legal analysis of socially & economically disadvantaged workers in the British hospitality industry, University of Oxford, England.

Sandra Bibiana CORREA (Independent, Colombia) - IFUW Recognition Award of 1500 Swiss francs. Frugivory in fishes: ecological & evolutionary perspectives, with implications for aquatic ecosystem functioning & conservation, Texas A&M University, USA.

Arwen CROSS (Australia) - IFUW Recognition Award of 1500 Swiss francs. Investigations of the molecular mechanism of gene silencing by miRNA, University of California at Berkeley, USA.

Anca GHEAUS IFUW Recognition Award

Rosario Jessica PRIBYL IFUW Recognition Award

Iliaria PICCIOLI IFUW Recognition Award

Jessica Margaret SCOTT IFUW Recognition Award

Anca GHEAUS (Independent, Romania) - IFUW Recognition Award of 1500 Swiss francs. Recognition AwardCare & justice in Feminist Ethics: How to make room for human decency, University of Oxford (Post-doctoral).

Iliaria PICCIOLI (Italy) - IFUW Recognition Award of 1500 Swiss francs. When nationalism threatens stability: Europe in need of a common approach, Universidad de Deusto, Spain.

Rosario Jessica PRIBYL (Independent, Peru) - IFUW Recognition Award of 1500 Swiss francs. Life & work of a mestiza Shawi healer in Peru: A contribution to gender biographic investigations in ethnomedicine, Universität Alma Mater Rudolphina, Austria. (Photo not available).

Jessica Margaret SCOTT (Canada) - IFUW Recognition Award of 1000 Swiss francs. The effects of prolonged exercise on cardiac calcium sensitivity: Underlying mechanisms of cardiac fatigue in male and female triathletes, Liverpool John Moores University, England.