Young researcher bags prestigious award

A University of Manchester post graduate researcher has bagged a prestigious award for Young Scholars.

Aileen Quinn  was one of only six young scholars to receive a the Round Table Commonwealth Award for Young Scholars for her research on women’s involvement in the  National Liberation Movement Ghana.

She receives £1,000, a three-week research grant to another Commonwealth country, will have  her final work published in Round Table, Britain’s oldest international affairs journal.

Founded in 1910, The Round Table been a repository of informed scholarship on both international relations and the Commonwealth, with authorship and readership drawn  from the worlds of government, business, finance and academia.

She is studying for an MA in Cultural History hopes to highlight the importance of gender in Commonwealth politics both historically and in the contemporary era.

She and will use the Republic of Ghana Public Records and Archive Administration Department (PRAAD) in Accra, and regional archives in Kumasi.

She also hopes to conduct interviews with Ghanaians, including those who  were involved in the independence movement and women now involved in Ghanaian  politics, in order to gage perceptions of the past and how gender roles have changed.

She said: “I am delighted to win this prestigious award  - especially as it’s the 100th year of the Round Table and the 60th anniversary of the modern Commonwealth.”

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