Dear All
As you may have heard earlier this year, the Royal Society and the DTI will
be making a new award from 2003, the Rosalind Franklin Award. It will be
made to an individual for an outstanding contribution to any area of natural
science, engineering or technology (SET), and nominees will be required to
put forward proposals for spending a proportion of the award fund on
activities they will undertake to promote women in SET in their host
institution and/or field of expertise.
The award consists of a medal and £30,000, to be spent on equipment, study
tours or other research related activities, as well as the promotion of
women in SET as mentioned above.
I am trying to find out whether £30,000 is a large sum of money in terms of
other comparable prizes in the UK. I know there are some international
prizes with much bigger pots, for example the Dan David Prize (Israel) is
worth $1M.
If any of you know about UK prizes/awards with larger award funds, I'd be
really grateful if you could e-mail me at [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> , with a few details of who gives
the money away, the rough criteria for the award and whether the money has
to be spent on anything particular.
Further details of the award, including a nomination form, will be available
on the Society's website from mid-September. The closing date for
nominations is 29 November.
Many thanks
Froniga Lambert
Events Officer
tel +44 (0) 20 7451 2574
fax +44 (0) 20 7451 2693
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/awards
Registered Charity No 207043
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