RCPI History of Medicine Research Award 2013
The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland is delighted to announce the launch of the third 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 Wednesday 16 October 2013. This is a public event, to encourage engagement with the history of medicine in Ireland. The award prize is €250.
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.
Applicants are asked to submit an abstract based on their research (maximum 800 words) with a copy of their CV, by Friday 6 September 2013. Research must be unpublished and must have been undertaken in the last 3 years. Research which has been submitted for publication will be considered, but details should be given of when and where it has been submitted, and if it has been accepted for publication.
A judging process will commence in September which will conclude with four finalists presenting their 15 minute research papers to an adjudication panel on Wednesday 16 October 2013 as part of the St. Luke's Symposium. At the same event a number of shortlisted runners-up will be asked to present their research as posters, which will be on display during the event. There will also be a small award for the best poster selected by the judges.
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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 Dr Anne Mac Lellan, who gave a paper entitled Victims or Vector? Tubercular Irish nurses in England 1930-1960. You can watch all the presentations from previous two years of the event on the RCPI Player.