Dr Palmer wins Research Project of the Year Award

_{Dr Nicola Palmer receives her award from President & Principal Professor Edward Byrne.}

Dr Nicola Palmer, Lecturer in The Dickson Poon School of Law, was presented with the Research Project of the Year award at the King’s Awards 2015 on 25 November. 

Dr Palmer won the prize for her research on criminal justice in post-genocide Rwanda. Dr Palmer’s book, Courts in Conflict, offers an interdisciplinary, interpretive approach to transitional justice research, providing new insights into the justice processes that followed the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Since its publication she has worked with the charity Aegis Trust on an innovative peer-to-peer mentoring project that is changing policy-making on justice in post-genocide Rwanda.

_{Dr Nicola Palmer (centre) on stage with President & Principal Professor Edward Byrne and the other King's Award prize winners.}

The Kings Awards ceremony was attended by more than 170 guests, including colleagues who had been shortlisted and the people who had nominated them. The ceremony was compèred by Professor Sir Robert Lechler, Vice-Principal (Health) and Professor Evelyn Welch, Vice-Principal (Arts & Sciences).

Full details of the winners can be found on King's intranet.