Emerging Scholar Awards
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the online conference by commenting and engaging the parallel sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2026 Emerging Scholar Award recipients are as follows:
Tilburg University, Netherlands
Pratiksha is a Post Doctoral Researcher at Tilburg University for the EU Horizon 2020 project AI4POL and is affiliated with Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) and Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC). She holds a PhD in consumer protection and data rights on collaborative economy platforms from UC Louvain, Belgium. She was also the legal researcher for the PROSECO Project (Platform Regulations and Operations in the Sharing Economy). She has a double degree in Business Administration and Law and a Masters in Corporate and Commercial Law from India. Her second masters is a Master of Corporate Law, University of Cambridge, UK. She is a qualified lawyer in her home state of Karnataka and the Bar Council of India. Her research interests include digital regulation, data and consumer law, AI and regulation, comparative law, and global studies with perspectives from the Global South.
Daugavpils University, Latvia
The main area of activity is research and thinking. She is in the final phases of obtaining a PhD in Social Sciences and is an undergraduate student in Language and Cultural Studies. Her extra free time is spent as a lecturer at the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty, Department of Education and Psychology at Daugavpils University in Latvia. Her lifelong interest is philosophy, particularly ontology and epistemology. Currently, the ongoing research revolves around the philosophy of consciousness and cognition with an interdisciplinary realm encompassing holistic constructivism, individual and social cognition, and cultural perspectives.
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