01 July 2025
Doctoral student awarded grant from foundation
A PhD student has won grant funding from a leading foundation to support his research at King’s.
Yohei Yoshizawa, who is studying with the Department of Political Economy, has been awarded £15,000 by the Great British Sasakawa Foundation as part of its postgraduate studentship programme.
Yohei is a second-year doctoral student and his research examines issues of public policy, with a particular focus on effort, inequality of opportunity, multidimensional deprivation, and social policy.
He said: “I am hugely grateful to King’s College for assisting with my application and to the Sasakawa Foundation for its generosity and support.”
The foundation’s aim is to develop relations between the UK and Japan by advancing the education of people from both nations in each other’s culture, society and achievements. It seeks to promote mutual understanding and cooperation through financial support for activities in fields including arts and culture, the humanities, Japanese language, medicine and health, science, technology and environment, sport and youth and education.
You can find out more about the foundation and grant funding at the link here: Great British Sasakawa Foundation.
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