2022 ENCATC Research Award
AntwerpThe 2022 Research Award ceremony took place on October 17 in Antwerp, during the first day of the ENCATC Congress.
The 9th ENCATC Research Award Ceremony took place in Antwerp on the first day of the 2022 ENCATC Congress, bringing together an international community of academics, researchers, cultural professionals and policymakers.
Three finalists presented their doctoral research: Jana Konstantinova (Switzerland), Kathrin Schmidt (United Kingdom) and YouYou Yu (China).
The winner chosen by the jury was Kathrin Schmidt, a PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, for her doctoral thesis, Performing Salone: The impact of local and global flows on the aesthetics and ecology of contemporary Krio theatre in Sierra Leone.
The Award was announced by Catherine Magnant, Deputy to the Director and Head of the Cultural Policies Department at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education and Culture. The programme opened with contributions from ENCATC President Gerald Lidstone, ENCATC Board Member Annick Schramme and University of Antwerp Rector Herman van Goethem.
The ceremony highlighted the Award’s role in giving emerging researchers international visibility and supporting career development, while strengthening connections between research, policy and practice and fostering international knowledge exchange in cultural management and cultural policy in Europe and beyond.
