Master's Award in Development Studies 2019 to Martta Kaskinen
Martta Kaskinen from the University of Helsinki has been awarded the 2019 Master's Award in Development Studies, handed out by UniPID and the Finnish Society for Development Research. Kaskinen's thesis in development studies was titled Just Fundraising? Finnish NGO campaign imaginaries of women and girls in the Global South.
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Martta Kaskinen from the University of Helsinki has been awarded the 2019 Master's Award in Development Studies, handed out by UniPID and the Finnish Society for Development Research (FSDR). Kaskinen's thesis in development studies, titled Just Fundraising? Finnish NGO campaign imaginaries of women and girls in the Global South, received praise from the committee for her thorough research on how the cuts of the Finnish development aid in 2016 affected NGO fundraising practices.
In 2019, UniPID and the Finnish Society for Development Research received 14 high-quality submissions competing for this year's Master's Award in Development Studies. The submissions were reviewed by a preliminary selection committee, which included members from both FSDR and UniPID, and represented a variety of disciplines for a fair and unbiased process. They chose four theses to be forwarded to the emeritus committee, which made the final decisions. The emeritus committee consisted of researcher and Doctor of Social Sciences Helena Jerman and Emeritus Professor of International Economics Pertti Haaparanta.
"In her very thorough and fine thesis, Martta Kaskinen looked into how the 2016 government cuts to development aid affected the way NGOs campaign for private donations. How their view on development changed and whether that affected the implementation and openness of the operations", the committee concluded.
This year the emeritus committee decided to hand out three honorable mentions. The first honorable mention was awarded to Daniel Nyarko-Afriyie from the University of Jyväskylä for his thesis To Go or Not to Go: Assessing the "Borga" image as a factor in the decision-making process of the prospective Ghanaian migrant. The second honorable mention was shared between Quivine Ndomo from the University of Jyväskylä and Katriina Huttunen from the University of Helsinki. Ms. Ndomo's thesis is titled Rationalized Realities: An interpretation of the narrated lived experiences of African international student migrants staying in Finland and Ms. Huttunen's Affective attachments to structures of inequality: Translations of global power asymmetries in touristic dance and music workshops in Senegal.
The winner and honorable mentionees will receive their diplomas in an award ceremony organized in conjunction with the FSDR Development Days Conference 2020 – Inequality Revisited: In Search of Novel Perspectives on an Enduring Problem, which takes place on 26. - 27. February, 2020.
- Martta Kaskinen: Just Fundraising? Finnish NGO campaign imaginaries of women and girls in the Global South on HELDA – Digital Repository of the University of Helsinki.
- Daniel Nyarko-Afriyie: To Go or Not to Go: Assessing the "Borga" image as a factor in the decision-making process of the prospective Ghanaian migrant on JYX Digital Repository.
- Quivine Ndomo: Rationalized Realities: An interpretation of the narrated lived experiences of African international student migrants staying in Finland on JYX Digital Repository.
- Katriina Huttunen: Affective attachments to structures of inequality: Translations of global power asymmetries in touristic dance and music workshops in Senegal on HELDA – Digital Repository of the University of Helsinki.
