Awards
Grants, fellowships, scholarships, and honours supporting research with real-world reach.
Awards & Recognition
Fellowships, grants, and honours recognising research excellence.
ISBM 2025 Doctoral Award & Doctoral Fellow ~$5,000
The Penn State University, Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM) has named, Soniya Gupta-Rawal as the "ISBM Business Marketing Doctoral Fellow" based on the PhD research titled, "Governing B2B Knowledge Marketplaces: Matching Frictions, Fit, and Engagement on a Global Mentoring Platform", as the Winner of 2025 Doctoral Support Award Competition, Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM); $5,000.
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PEDL PhD Research Grant ~ £25,000
PEDL PhD Grant among 12 awardees (7th Special ERG Call Grant ID: PEDL LOA 101034 Gupta-Rawal) for “Signals from Space, Decisions on Farms".
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Commonwealth Masters Scholarship 2021 ~ £45,000
Received Commonwealth Master's Scholarship from the FCDO for pursuing a fully-funded Research MPhil at University of Cambridge.
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Tony Cowling Research Grant 2022 ~ £12,800
In co-operation with the Cambridge Judge Business School, the Tony Cowling Memorial Research Fund awards Faculty and PhD students for advancing early-stage research on topics that improve decision-making in the market research industry. This research grant was given for my PhD thesis project on microentrepreneurs and mentor matching in emerging markets.
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Dean’s Research Excellence Prize 2026~ £17,805
2026–2027: CJBS Dean’s Research Excellence Prize, Cambridge Judge Business School; £17,805.
School of Technology Fieldwork Fund Grant 2023 ~ £3,500
Received the School of Technology Fieldwork Fund Grant Award for field research in India during the summer of 2023 to conduct interviews and an ethnographic study with the microentrepreneurial ecosystem in rural retail.
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Postgraduate Research Grant 2024 ~ £1,500
Received the Postgraduate Research Grant 2024 for field work to interview rural retailers in India in the summer of 2024 for a research project focusing on dairy micronetrepreneurs.
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Small Research Grant Award ~ £5,000 (Satellite Innovation Project)
Received the Small Research Grant Award ~ £5,000 for the space and satellite frugal innovation research paper, published in PNAS.
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Small Research Grant Award ~ £5,000 (Women Microentrepreneurs & Supplier Dependency Project)
Received the Small Research Grant Award ~ £5,000 for the lab in the field experiment research in Egypt, for examining the impact of gender norms on the supplier relationships for the female microentrepreneurs.
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Keynes Fund Small PhD Awards 2026 ~ £3,000
Keynes Fund supports the data purchase for the Farmer Research Project, to extend the frontiers of traditional economics in order to raise Cambridge's profile in the critical area between economic theory, best private sector practice and public policy, with a bias towards promoting long-term thinking, dampened pro-cyclicality, improved economic growth and reduced income/wealth disparities.
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Ivey-PhD Sustainability Academy Best Paper Award 2025 ~$500
Received the Best Paper Award as the Winner of the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS) prize at the Ivey-ARCS PhD Sustainability Academy 2025 for my paper “Signals from Space, Decisions on Farms,” which examines the impact of leapfrogging to complex tools through staged adoption in resource-constrained markets on farmer productivity, climate resilience, and user learning, in collaboration with Farmonaut®.
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Emma Mildmay Award 2025 ~ £250
Daniel McKay, Director of Emma Experience, sat down with Soniya Gupta-Rawal, PhD student, who has received the Mildmay Award 2025 to discuss the Emma Experience programme and the challenges and opportunities they face in their day-to-day lives.
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PhD Teaching Assistant Award 2023-2025
— MBA96: Marketing & Innovation in Emerging Markets (Prof. Jaideep Prabhu) — MS6: Marketing Supervision for Management Studies Tripos, CJBS (Prof. Shasha Lu) — MBA14: Managing Innovation Strategically (Prof. Jeremy Hutchison-Krupat) — Executive MBA10 & GLobal MBA10: Marketing (Prof. Eden Yin & Dominique Lauga)