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NEWSLETTER 2000 |
THE ARKLETON TRUST
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David Moore Memorial FundThis annual UK award of between £600-£800 is made to a student or students engaged in the study of rural development and social change in Europe and/or the Third World, to enable the winner to supplement academic course work with some research or practical field investigations. Preference is given to post-graduate students and applications need to be supported by a course tutor. The purpose of the award is to stimulate both discussion of the mechanism by which the developed and developing worlds can be brought closer together and/or to investigate what can be usefully learned from Third World experience or from new approaches in poorer rural regions of Europe.
During the year we have received reports back from two of our 1999 winners. Benjamin Powis returned from Kerala, South India where he examined whether decentralisation strategies could be a means to enhance people's participation in development. Corinna Csaky returned from Ecuador where she carried out an examination of street child alienation and resistance. Corinna sent us a copy of her dissertation which was submitted as part of the requirements for her MA in Social Anthropology and which she is hoping to publish. The 2000 award was made to Alexander Smith who is studying for his MSc in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is examining how the relationship between civil society and the institutions of an emergent Scottish 'state' is changing and analysing the processes by which this changing relationship is influencing forestry policy at the UK, Scottish and area levels, as well as at European levels.
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