Sara Hobolt


Nils Klim Prize Lecture 2012: "Blaming Europe? Attribution of Responsibility in the European Union"

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Monday 4 June, 12.15-13.00
Location: Auditorium, Ulrike Phils hus, Professor Keysers street 1, University of Bergen

Nils Klim Prize 2012: Sara Hobolt


Nils Klim Prize laureate 2012 Sara Hobolt with Minister of Research and Education Kristin Halvorsen Photo: Holbergprisen / Marit Hommedal / Holbergprisen. Download large version.

Nils Klim Prize 2012 is awarded to Sara Hobolt.

Citation from the Nils Klim Prize Academic Committee:

«Sara Hobolt (b. 1977) received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Cambridge in 2005. She has held positions in some of the leading universities in the world, including the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of Oxford, where she has been University Lecturer in Comparative Politics as well as a Fellow of Nuffield College and Lincoln College. She is now holding the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions at the London School of Economics and Political Science but also an Honorary Professorship at the University of Southern Denmark.

The Nils Klim Prize interview with Sarah Hobolt

- You are a young scholar and have a comprehensive bibliography in your research. What themes of your research do you look upon as the most important?

Holberg International Memorial Prize is awarded annually for outstanding scholarly work in the fields of the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology. The prize amount is NOK 4.5 million (Appr. EUR 610,000/ USD 790,000)

Nils Klim Prize is awarded to young Nordic researchers under 35 years within the academic fields of the Holberg Prize.

Holberg Prize School Project is a research competition for pupils in the upper secondary school.

Holberg Prize was established by the Norwegian Parliament in 2003.