NZ Journal of Research on Europe prize

The Europe Institute offers a prize of NZ$500 each year for the best article published in the Journal by an emerging scholar (a postgraduate student or a researcher whose PhD was earned up to five years before the time of submission). Please state if you are eligible and wish to be considered at the time you submit your article for consideration.

Logan Carmichael has been awarded the annual New Zealand Journal of Research on Europe prize for her article entitled “Changes and Challenges of Euroscepticism in Estonia European Integration, Fifteen Years on from Accession”.

The article was published in the journal's special issue in memory of Professor David G Meyes, edited by Associate Professor Maureen Benson Rean and Dr Ayelet Zoran-Rosen. The prize is awarded annually for the best article published in NZJRE by an emerging scholar or postgraduate student.

Logan holds a Master's degree in Conflict and Terrorism Studies from the University of Auckland. Logan’s recent work includes compiling the security profile on Estonia for the King’s College London War Studies simulation on Russian aggression, and guest lecturing at the University of Auckland on issues related to Eastern Europe. Her research focuses on governance and security policy in Eastern Europe, particularly in Estonia.

Annalise Higgins was awarded the New Zealand Journal of Research on Europe prize for her article entitled 'The Idea of Neutrality in British Newspapers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, c. 1898 – 1902'.

The article was published in the journal's special issue Europe at War and Peace, edited by Associate Professor Maartje Abbenhuis.

Higgins recently completed a Master of Arts in History at the University of Auckland, where she researched British attitudes towards and understandings of international law, especially the 1899 Hague Peace Conference. In 2016, she enrolled as a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge to pursue a PhD in international environmental diplomatic history.

The judges for the journal's prize said her article "makes careful and considered use of digitised newspapers – and deploys their digitisation as a tool – to reveal the multiple and layered meanings of neutrality for the British reading public". The judges complemented her "sensitivity to the ways digitization can off-set historians' unconscious biases" and her avoidance of "the pit-falls of digitisation".