The Ronald Watts Young Researcher Award was awarded to the following scholars:
The Ronald L. Watts Award for 2023 was awarded to Shahal Khoso (PhD candidate in Political Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain), for the paper "Postcolonial Federalism: tracing colonial state-formation in the Global South".
He presented his paper at the IACFS Annual Conference held in Philadelphia, USA, on 26 October 2023.
The Ronald L. Watts Award for 2022 was awarded to Borui Song (PhD candidate in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University), for the paper "Fiscal Federalism, Equalisation and Political incentives: Evidence from China".
He presented his paper at the IACFS Annual Conference held in Bilbao, Spain, on 28 October 2022.
The Ronald L. Watts Award for 2021 was awarded to Simon Bouthillier (master’s degree in law (LL. M.) from McGill University and master’s degree in business administration (MBA)), for the paper "Untangling the Gordian Knot:The Regulation of Conditional Transfers in Canada".
He presented his paper at the IACFS Annual Conference held in Innsbruck, Austria, on 28 October 2021.
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 and at the IACFS Annual Conference held in Innsbruck, Austria, on 28 October 2021.
The Ronald L. Watts Award for 2019 was awarded to Jesse Hartery (Honours B.A. in History, University of Ottawa; J.D./B.C.L., McGill University; Diploma in Federalism, University of Fribourg), a teaching assistant to Professor Johanne Poirier at McGill University, for the paper “Institutional Barriers to Sub-National Sovereignty in Myanmar: Lessons from India's Federal Design".
He presented his paper at the IACFS Annual Conference held in Speyer, Germany, on 17 October 2019.
The Ronald Watts Young Researcher Award for 2018 was awarded to Dr. Maja Sahadžić, Research Fellow at the University of Antwerp, for the paper “Can asymmetrical constitutional arrangements provide an alternative answer for the Disputed? Bringing constitutional asymmetries into play in the Middle East peace process”.
She presented her paper at the IACFS Annual Conference held in Canberra, Australia, on 27 October 2018.
The Ronald Watts Young Researcher Award for 2017 was awarded to Ben Fraser, when he was undertaking a Masters of Law at the University of Melbourne, for the paper “Australian Intergovernmental Agreements: Accountability Through a Compact Clause”. He was then (and is now) an Assistant Parliamentary Counsel at the Parliamentary Counsel's Office (WA).
He presented his paper at the IACFS Annual Conference held in Fribourg Switzerland, on 12-13 October 2017.
The Ronald Watts Young Researcher Award for 2016 was awarded to Dr Alice Valdesalici (PhD University of Verona, Italy), a senior researcher at Eurac Research - Institute for Comparative Federalism (Bolzano/Bozen) for the paper “Measuring fiscal responsibility: from 'law in books' to 'law in action'”.
She presented her paper at the IACFS Annual Conference held in New Delhi, India, on 16 November 2016.
The Ronald Watts Young Researcher Award for 2015 was award to Dr Marc Sanjaume (Ph D Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Catalonia), a post doc student at CREQC, University of Quebec at Montreal, for the paper “Reconciling liberal democracy, nationalism and political divorce in federalizing contexts”.
He presented his paper at the IACFS Annual Conference held in Montreal, Canada, on 3 October 2015.
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