Annually awarded at the HDCA conference for the best conference paper from a graduate student
Kukly's prize This prize is aimed at promoting the work of graduate students in the field of human development and the capability approach. It is named in memory of Wiebke Kuklys, who, as an Economics PhD student at Cambridge University, advanced the capability approach by exploring the application of new statistical techniques. Wiebke studied in Germany, Chile, and England, and combined an open mind for new ideas with a concern for the most vulnerable people and she believed that high-quality research could contribute to making the world a better place to live in. Wiebke died in June 2005, at the age of 33, only a few months after receiving her PhD degree. Her dissertation was published posthumously by Springer under the title Amartya Sen's Capability Approach: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Applications.
Winner of 2012
Agnese Peruzzi, for her paper 'Understanding social exclusion in a longitudinal perspective, A capability based approach'
Mario Biggeri accepts the prize of behalf of
Ms. Peruzzi
Runner Up: Mandy Li-Ming Yap, for her paper 'Whose development? Eliciting Indigenous Preferences through Discrete Choice Model'
Previous Winners
2011 - Nicolai Suppa with 'Does capability deprivation hurt?'
2010 - Donna Vaughan with "Development, Rights, and Indigenous Australians – A Critique Of Australian Government Policy Using The Capability Approach"
2009 - Stacey Kosko with "Parental Consent and Children's Rights in Europe: A Balancing Act"
2008 - Suman Seth with "A class of Association Sensitive Multidimensional Well-being Indices"
2007 - Jose Manuel Roche with "Monitoring Inequality among Social Groups: A Methodology Combining Fuzzy Set Theory and Principal Component Analysis", Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 9 (3).
2006 - Constanze Binder with “Context Dependency of Valuable Functionings: How Culture Affects the Capability Framework”
