SSHM Undergraduate Essay Prize: Call for Submissions
The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) invites submissions to its 2016 SSHM Undergraduate Prize Competition.
Up to six prizes will be awarded for the best
unpublished original research essays in the social history of medicine.
We will consider two groups of undergraduate students, (1) humanities
and social science students, and (2) medical, healthcare
and allied science students. Up to THREE prizes will be awarded to each
group. The winners will be awarded £100.00 each. The winning entries
may also be published on the Society’s website,
http://www.sshm.org/.
Winning entries from previous years:
https://sshmedicine.wordpress.
Eligible candidates are undergraduate students,
part-time or full-time, in the humanities and social sciences, or
medicine, healthcare and allied sciences. All candidates must be SSHM
members or submit an application to join the Society
for the Social History of Medicine by the date of submission. The
membership requirement may be waived for residents of developing
countries, as listed on the OUP website.
The essay competition is open to those registered
as undergraduate students as of the deadline for submission of entries
and for those students who have been awarded their undergraduate degree
in 2016.
Deadline: 1 October 2016
Essays must be unpublished, written in English,
3,000-5,000 words in length (including footnotes), and in conformity
with the basic bibliographic conventions of our journal,
Social History of Medicine.
If you are interested, please consult the competition rules on the SSHM website, where you can also find a submission form:
https://sshmedicine.wordpress.
Candidates who are uncertain as to whether they are
eligible to enter the competition may want to contact the Membership
Secretary: Dr Catherine Cox, School of History and Archives, John Henry
Newman Building, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Email: catherine.cox@ucd.ie