New HSTM Digital Engagement Prize
Ayrton
Prize
The British
Society for the History of Science is delighted to announce the launch of a new
prize for outstanding web projects and digital engagement in the history of
science, technology and medicine (HSTM). The prize name was chosen by members
of the BSHS from a shortlist to recognize the major contributions of Hertha
Ayrton (1854-1923) to numerous scientific fields in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. We welcome applications for the inaugural Ayrton
Prize, to be awarded to the best history of science web project of the past 2
years.
The
Outreach and Education Committee will produce a shortlist which will then be
open for vote to members of the BSHS. The winning project will form the
centrepiece of a special issue of the BSHS magazine, Viewpoint,
dedicated to HSTM and the digital, which will appear in February 2016. We will
also feature all the shortlisted entries on the BSHS website.
For more
details, including judging criteria and an entry form, please visit the BSHS
website: http://www.bshs.org.uk/ayrton-prize.
Entries
close at 4pm on 21 September 2015.
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Dr James F. Stark | @KingTekkers
Research Fellow
The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875-1920 (Pickering & Chatto, 2013)
“Pasts, Presents and Futures of Medical
Regeneration”
A Wellcome Trust Seed Project in Medical
Humanites, starting October 2015
Leeds Humanities Research Institute
University of Leeds
LEEDS LS2 9JT UK
Phone: +44 (0)1133432021