International award for law PhD

Recent UVic law graduate Ania Zbyszewska has been awarded the 2013 prize for best PhD thesis by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES). Based in the United Kingdom, the UACES is the largest European Studies professional association in the world. They found Zbyszewska’s work, “Gender Equality in the Wider European Union and in Poland,” to be original and timely, unanimously agreeing on her win. Zbyszewska completed her thesis research in Poland, exploring whether the European Union’s Working Time Directive had advanced gender equality in the country. She’s currently a research fellow at the University of Warwick.