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

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

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

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