RCPI History of Medicine Research Award 2012
RCPI is delighted to announce the launch of the second annual RCPI History of Medicine Research Award. The award will be made as part of the Heritage Centre Lectures at the St. Luke's Symposium, to be held on Thursday 18 October 2012.
The RCPI History of Medicine Research Award is open to all researchers in the field of the history of medicine in Ireland, as well as related social and cultural history fields. The purpose of the award is to support and develop the study of the history of medicine in Ireland, and to promote the use of the library, archive and heritage item collections held by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. The research must be unpublished.
Applicants are asked to submit an abstract on their research (maximum 800 words) with the application form, by Friday 14 September 2012. A judging process will commence in September 2012 that will conclude with four finalists presenting their 15 minute research papers to an adjudication panel on Thursday 18 October 2012.
For further information on the RCPI History of Medicine Research Award, please contact Harriet Wheelock at
harrietwheelock@rcpi.ie.
Last year's award was won by David Durnin, who gave a paper on
War and Medicine: Irish Medical Involvement in the First World War. David is an IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, UCD, and
you can find out more about his research here.