Vanessa Ugolini, post-doctoral fellow in the DATAUNION project, received the ‘Best Doctoral Researcher 2023’ prize in International Studies from the University of Trento. The award ceremony was held in Piazza Fiera, Trento (Italy) on 10 May 2024.
Her doctoral thesis, titled ‘“Un-making” data to “make” security: A discursive and visual inquiry into the production, circulation and use of data across the pan-European information infrastructure’, investigated the centrality of data practices in the making of security in the EU area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ).