{"id":613,"count":12,"description":"<strong>2024 Blog Prizes<\/strong>\r\n\r\nOur Global Social Challenges students this year were learning and writing across contemporary topics that were both varied and interconnected, including Ageing Populations, Inequalities, Environmental Justice and Migration. In a year that has been cited as the hottest on record, that has seen a devastating \u00a0escalation of global conflict, and in which eighty countries held elections, many of them with anti-establishment outcomes, the world seems more in need of sharp sociological analysis than ever. Our students were ready to take on that challenge. Each of them wrote a blog which sought to marry that analysis with engaging and accessible writing, in the spirit of \u201cpublic sociology\u201d.\r\n\r\nIt was a year of particularly high-quality writing from our first-year students. We have published 47 of the best blogs on this website, adding to archived blogs from previous years. We hope you enjoy browsing through them.\r\n\r\nWe offered three prizes, looking for articles which combined an engaging and accessible writing style with good use of evidence and skilful weaving in of sociological theories from the course. You can find the winning blogs on our Prize Winning Articles page here.\r\n\r\n<strong>Winners of the 2024 Global Social Challenges Blog Prize:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>1<sup>st<\/sup> Prize:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Tobias Kelly for \u201cUnlimited Power: How Global Corporations Shape our Everyday Lives\u201d<\/strong>\r\n\r\nTobias has won the first prize for his sharp critical assessment of the cultural, political and economic reach of the corporation. We enjoyed Tobias\u2019 skilful weaving of course literature into a polished piece of writing, with a rousing call to hold corporations to account through more transparent regulation, stronger laws and public awareness and engagement.\r\n\r\n<strong>Runners up:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Suha Ibrahem for \u201cInclude women in environmental justice, before it\u2019s too late\u201d<\/strong>\r\n\r\nWe enjoyed Suha\u2019s strident call for women to be appointed as\u00a0<strong>leaders\u00a0<\/strong>of the climate change movement, not simply as members. We found Suha\u2019s writing style to be perfectly pitched for a public engagement article, engaging and simple, without sacrificing scholarliness.\r\n\r\n<strong>Ayushi Juggoo for \u201cThe COP Meetings: a genuine endeavour or a fallacy?\u201d<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAyushi\u2019s blog takes a timely look at the efficacy of COP meetings to mitigate climate change. It was scrupulously evidenced, well-researched, and took up John Urry\u2019s arguments to show that the problem is just as much a question for sociology, as it is for the natural sciences.\r\n\r\nThere were very many other great blog posts, and we hope you enjoy looking through our selection, as well as the prize-winning articles.\r\n\r\n<strong>Dr Maisie Tomlinson<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Course Director, Global Social Challenges <\/strong>","link":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/global-social-challenges\/category\/prize-winning-articles\/","name":"Prize Winning Articles","slug":"prize-winning-articles","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/global-social-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/global-social-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/global-social-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/global-social-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}