Over this past winter, great progress has been made by members of Council as regards the launch (or in one case the relaunch) of several new prizes and awards over the next six months.
A healthy number of submissions was received by the January deadline for the first SRS biennial book prize. The judging panel, headed by Professor Andrew Hadfield, will announce the winner at our Manchester conference in July. The next deadline for this competition will be January 2014 and Council encourages all SRS members who have monographs due for publication in the intervening period to consider submitting them.
2012 also sees the launch of a new Undergraduate Essay Prize organized by Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey with a submission date of 8 June, and the relaunch of the Schools' Essay Prize organized by our Schools' representative, Harriet Knight, with a deadline of 14 September.
We are also delighted to announce our new Museums, Archives and Libraries Bursary Scheme under the direction of Dr Caroline Campbell. The scheme is designed to provide financial assistance to curators, librarians, and archivists undertaking individual research projects leading to publication, exhibition or display. In this case, the deadline for applications is 31 May 2012.
Details of all these competitions are available on the relevant pages of the website.