UACES Lifetime Achievement Award
UACES Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the development of European Studies as a discipline. The Award recognises and values all kinds of contributions to the profession, including non-traditional achievements.
The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the development of European Studies as a discipline. The Award recognises and values all kinds of contributions to the profession, including non-traditional achievements.
2022 Recipient Prof Loukas Tsoukalis
We are delighted to announce that the recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award in European Studies is Prof Loukas Tsoukalis.
"Loukas Tsoukalis has made a tremendous contribution to European Studies. A proud Greek, Loukas understood what it meant to come from a small, relatively poor, and peripheral state. He brought those insights to the study of centre-periphery dynamics in the EU. Loukas’s long-term interest in EMU led him to analyse the conditions under which EMU might work and the degree of convergence necessary for a stable currency. As a life-long social democrat, solidarity mattered to him. Above all, his work was characterised by a strong normative commitment to the project of European integration. His 2016 In Defence of Europe was a plea for a new European grand bargain that would reset the EU on a better and safer path." - Prof Brigid Laffan Emeritus Professor European University Institute (EUI)
"Loukas, it has been an honour for me to follow in your footsteps not only at Oxford’s St Antony’s but also as a Greek cosmopolitan and a passionate Europeanist. Your clarity of mind, pedagogic brilliance, sharpness of prediction and generosity of spirit to colleagues have been and continue to be an absolute inspiration for us all. " - Prof Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Oxford University
"This award acknowledges an impressive and exceptional achievement. From the start, Loukas’ work on European integration has had breadth – from economics to politics - offering original and thought-provoking analyses. He has also himself been an eloquent advocate of the European cause he has studied: a ‘true’ European, with an élan few academics can match. He has been a high-level policy advisor, both in Athens and Brussels And, at home, he also helped to create one of Greece’s most highly-regarded think-tanks. He was a ‘class’ act to follow at the LSE. He has straddled the European stage and has remained respected by all throughout." - Prof Kevin Featherstone, London School of Economics
Previous Winners
Year
Year
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Recipient
Year
2021
Recipient
Dr Ann Kennard
Year
2019
Recipient
Nonna Mayer
Year
2018
Recipient
Drew Scott
Year
2017
Recipient
Jo Shaw
Year
2016
Recipient
Simon Bulmer
Year
2015
Recipient
Geoffrey Edwards
Year
2014
Recipient
Brigid Laffan
Year
2013
Recipient
Neill Nugent
Year
2012
Recipient
Emil Kirchner
Year
2011
Recipient
Wolfgang Wessels
Year
2010
Recipient
Michael H Smith
Year
2009
Recipient
Beate Kohler Koch
Year
2008
Recipient
Alan Milward
Year
2007
Recipient
William Paterson
Year
2006
Recipient
Helen Wallace and William Wallace
Year
2005
Recipient
John Pinder