Previous Recipients of the Alice Edwards Breakthrough Researcher Award

2026 Award

Thomas Mulder (University of New South Wales), ‘Moving Beyond Rhetoric: Solidarity in the Treaty on the Protection of Persons in Disasters’

Suzanne Varrall (University of Melbourne), ‘Corporate Accountability for Transnational Harm: Arms Proliferation and Climate Change’

2025 Award

Jade Roberts (University of Melbourne), 'Beyond the State: Approaches to Statelessness in International Law'

2024 (Inaugural) Award

Elizabeth Brown (King's College London), 'Internal Investigations into War Crimes Allegations: British and Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan'

Sophie Ryan (University of Oxford), 'Testing the Conventional Wisdom? Framework Issues in Cross-Border Human Rights Litigation Involving States'

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