Congratulations to Dr Matt York on winning the Basil Chubb Prize for the Best PhD in Political Science

17 Oct 2022

The Department of Government and Politics warmly congratulates Dr Matt York on winning the Basil Chubb Prize for the Best PhD in Political Science. Matt completed his PhD in the department in 2021. The title of his thesis was ‘Imagining New Worlds: (R)evolutionary Love and Radical Social Transformation in the 21st Century: A Collective Visioning Project’. The central focus of the thesis was ‘understanding of love as a transformative political force in revolutionary, particularly anarchist, discourse from the late nineteenth century to the present day.’ The research used a process of collective visioning with social activists in an innovative and iterative design. The research will also be published as a book in 2023.

Dr York is photographed with Dr Peter Stone of TCD, who is the President of the Political Studies Association of Ireland.