Doctoral Scholarship Awards

Doctoral Scholarships

  • The Society awards a limited number of doctoral scholarships each year — see Doctoral Scholarships for further details. The following candidates have recently received the award.

2024:

Rebecca Brione 

Undertaking degree of PhD at King’s College London

Research area: Applied Ethics, Speech Act Theory,  Bioethics, Philosophy of Birth

Summary of Research

 

Miguel De La Cal Moreno

Undertaking degree of PhD at University of St Andrews and University of Stirling

Research area: Climate Ethics, Moral Knowledge, Eco-philosophy

Summary of Research

2023: 

  • Lorenzo Elijah (University of Oxford)
  • Kristine La Cour (University College London) 

2022: 

  • Alex Fisher (University of Cambridge)
  • Emilia Wilson (University of St Andrews)
  • Dilara Boga (Central European University (Vienna))

2021:

  • Virginia De Biasio (University of York)
  • Anna Milioni (King’s College London)
  • Leora Sung (University College London)

2020:

  • Daniella Meehan (University of Glasgow)
  • Lee Wilson (University of Edinburgh)
  • Joshua Kelsall (University of St Andrews)

SAP Annual Conference

SAP Annual Conference 2025
27- 29 June
Radisson Hotel & Suites, Gdansk

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