Speckmann Prize

Digitalisation

Moved by the Spirit: Sensing the Divine in a Dutch Pentecostal Church

God is disappearing from the Netherlands, according to a 2016 survey. But this is misleading. New religious movements such as Pentecostalism are growing worldwide. For my MA, I made a film about 3 months’ fieldwork in a Dutch Pentecostal community.

Annelise Reid • 31-03-2017

Diversity

Will women talk about the war?

How do women talk about violent experiences? How can we understand women’s stories of war without reproducing stereotypes of female victimhood or subservience? Rosi Aryal won the Speckmann award with her MA research on war time violence in Sierra Leone.

Rosi Aryal • 16-02-2016

Sustainability

Community-conserved areas: Do freshwater fish sanctuaries work?

What determines the failure or success of community-conserved projects that try to combine biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction? Lien Vermeersch wrote her MA thesis on fish sanctuaries in the Philippines and won the Speckmann Prize 2015.

Lien Vermeersch • 18-02-2015

Diversity

Speckmann Prize winner 2014: Re-framing economics through local community action

Economic change is often seen as being controlled by policy-makers and big business only. However, in the ongoing aftermath of the 2007/08 economic crisis an increasing number of people are implementing new economic practices in their own localities.

Florence Scialom • 17-02-2014

Blogs

Moved by the Spirit: Sensing the Divine in a Dutch Pentecostal Church

Will women talk about the war?

Community-conserved areas: Do freshwater fish sanctuaries work?

Speckmann Prize winner 2014: Re-framing economics through local community action