RCPI History of Medicine Research Award 2014
We are delighted to announce the launch of the fourth
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 Tuesday
14 October 2014. 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 RCPI.
Applicants
are asked to submit an abstract based on their research (maximum 800 words)
with a copy of their CV, by Friday 5
September 2014. Research must be unpublished and must have been undertaken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 Tuesday 14 October 2014.
For further information on the RCPI History of Medicine Research Award,
please contact Harriet Wheelock at harrietwheelock@rcpi.ie.
Our 2013
winner, Dr Clara Cullen, gave a paper entitled War Work on the Home Front: The Central Sphagnum
Moss Depot of Ireland at the Royal College of Science for Ireland 1915-19.
You can also
watch all the presentations from previous three years of the event on the RCPI Player.