{"id":8898,"date":"2020-10-03T18:14:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/urp\/?p=8898"},"modified":"2020-10-03T18:22:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:22:45","slug":"acsp-diversity-award-given-to-urp-doctoral-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/urp\/acsp-diversity-award-given-to-urp-doctoral-student\/","title":{"rendered":"ACSP Diversity Award Given to URP Doctoral Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ACSP Diversity Award Given to URP Doctoral Student<\/em><\/h1>
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Afsheen Sadaf is the recipient of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s 2020 Marsha Ritzdorf Award for Best Student Work on Diversity, Social Justice and the Role of Women in Planning.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Women in developing countries such as Pakistan face unique challenges that are not well understood. Photo by kanwar Taimoor<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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October 3, 2020<\/h6>
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Since 1998, the Marsha Ritzdorf Award for the Best Student Work on Diversity, Social Justice and the Role of Women in Planning<\/a><\/strong> has been given annually to an outstanding recipient by the Faculty Women’s Interest Group (FWIG) of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)<\/a>. ACSP is a consortium of over 100 planning degree programs in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award recognizes superior scholarship reflecting concern with making communities better for women, people of color, and\/or the disadvantaged. It is given in honor of Marsha Ritzdorf, who researched the social implications of land use and raised awareness of the connections between social policy and planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Afsheen Sadaf, recipient of the 2020 Marsha Ritzdorf Award.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The recipient of the 2020 Marsha Ritzdorf Award is Afsheen Sadaf<\/a><\/strong>. She is a PhD Program student with concentration in Urban and Regional Planning. Her doctoral committee is Dr. Timothy Murtha<\/a>, Dr. Christopher Silver<\/a>, and Dr. Emre Tepe<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afsheen’s primary focus of research is on socioeconomic, cultural, religious and gender implications of health-related disparities found in the built environment that contribute to increase in overweight and obesity rate in developing and developed countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many developing countries, women face all kinds of different challenges which are not very much known by the rest of the world.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>