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Recognition for the Advancement of Psychedelics

The opening of submissions for the next round of our highly prestigious Student Essay Awards will follow the next conference in April 2023. This is a fantastic opportunity for all postgraduate students studying within the field of psychedelics.

In the interim, below are recent winners over the last few years.

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Recognition for the Advancement of Psychedelics

STUDENT AWARD SUBMISSIONS OPEN IN APRIL 2023

Recent Winners

2021 STUDENT ESSAY WINNERS BY CATEGORY

Humanities Winner: Freya Häberlein: Dale Pendell's 'Phenomenological Taxonomy' Artistic Research and the Politics of Language in Psychedelic Pharmacology | PDF

Social Science Winner: Sidsel Marie: Governmental Regulations of Psychedelics | PDF

Science Winner: Hannah Douglass: Psilocybin-induced Enhancements of Long-Term Potentiation in Healthy Psychedelic-Naïve Participants | PDF

2020 STUDENT ESSAY WINNERS BY CATEGORY

Humanities Winner: Alberto Cavallarin: Schelling's 'Identity Philosophy' as a Metaphysical Framework to Interpret Psychedelic-Induced Mystical Experiences | PDF

Social Science Winner: Baiba Baika: Initiation into the Art of Dying | PDF

Science Winner: Damian Gibbs: Neural Correlates for Correlated Phenomenology: A Comparison of Network Connectivity Changes in Psychosis with Acute Changes Following Serotenergic Psychedelics | PDF

2019 STUDENT ESSAY WINNERS BY CATEGORY

Humanities Winner: Michael Albert: Psychopharmacology in an Age of Planetary Crisis: What Role for Psychedelics? | PDF

Social Science Winner: Joseph Mays: Cosmology and Visionary Plants in Biocultural Conservation: Exploring the role of religious cosmology influenced by visionary plants in human-environment relationships in non-Western societies | PDF

Science Winner: Ashleigh Murphy-Beiner: Ayahuasca's 'afterglow': Improved mindfulness and cognitive flexibility in naïve and experienced ayahuasca drinkers | PDF

2018 STUDENT ESSAY WINNERS BY CATEGORY

Humanities Winner: Sab Xew: A new focus for transhumanism: Psychedelics as affective technology to resist affective capitalism | PDF

Social Science Winner: Adam Knowles: Making sense of ayahuasca experiences of those in the UK: an interpretative phenomenological analysis | PDF

Science Winner: Nir Tadmor: Towards a Transpersonal Psychiatry | PDF

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