Master’s Award in Development Studies 2014
UniPID and the Finnish Society for Development Research awarded Henry O. Salas Lazo the Master’s Award in Development Studies 2014 at the FinCEAL seminar "Cooperation Across Borders – Comprehensive Responses to Transecting Global Challenges” in Helsinki on the 12th of November. The winner received a prize sum of 1000 euros for his Latin American studies thesis"Local Voices and Perspectives: A Study on the Contextualisation of Women’s Empowerment in Lima, Peru” completed at the University of Helsinki.
Master’s Award in Development Studies 2014 to Henry O. Salas Lazo from the University of Helsinki
UniPID and the Finnish Society for Development Research awarded Henry O. Salas Lazo the 2014 Master’s Award in Development Studies at the FinCEAL seminar "Cooperation Across Borders – Comprehensive Responses to Transecting Global Challenges” in Helsinki on the 12th of November. The winner received a prize sum of 1000 euros for his Latin American studies thesis"Local Voices and Perspectives: A Study on the Contextualisation of Women’s Empowerment in Lima, Peru” completed at the University of Helsinki.
In his thesis, Salas Lazo provided an interesting dialogue between the academic discourse of empowerment and the local voices of how empowerment is viewed by women living in Lima, Peru. In his acceptance speech at the award ceremony, Salas Lazo expressed that
