Political scientist awarded The Brian Barry Prize
The British Academy has awarded Professor Göran Duus-Otterström the 2023 Brian Barry Prize in political science.
The British Academy has awarded its annual selection of prizes and medals to a number of distinguished academics in the SHAPE disciplines in recognition of significant contributions to their areas of study. SHAPE - Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy - is a collective name for the social sciences, humanities, and the arts.
This year’s winners include outstanding archaeologists, linguists, political scientists and classicists from all over the world including the UK, China, Sweden and Israel whose accomplishments have made a deep and lasting impact on the humanities and social sciences and helped shape understanding of our world.
Göran Duus-Otterström is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg and a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm. He is a political theorist whose work mainly focuses on legal punishment and climate justice. He is awarded the prize for his essay 'Emissions Sufficientarianism and Climate Justice'
The prize, worth £1 500, is made in partnership with Cambridge University Press and the British Journal of Political Science in honour of Brian Barry, a distinguished Fellow of the Academy and founding editor of the Journal. The prize was first awarded in 2014.
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