Winner of the Ronald Watts Young Researcher Award 2020

In 2014, the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies (IACFS) inaugurated the Young Scholar Award, an annual award for the best unpublished article or paper on an aspect of federalism. In 2015, this award was renamed in honour of Ronald L. Watts.

The Ronald Watts Young Researcher Award 2020 was awarded to the following scholar:

2020

The Ronald L. Watts Award for 2020 was awarded to Dr. Michelle R. Maziwisa (LLD University of the Western Cape, LLM University of Cape Town, LLB Nelson Mandela University) a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, for the paper "The Role of South African Cities in External Economic Engagements".

She presented her paper at the IACFS Annual Conference held online, on 14 October 2020.