Dear all,
The BPS Lesbian & Gay Section have asked me to circulate this to
postgraduates, please forward to anyone you know whose research is in this
area.
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Yours,
Gareth
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BPS Lesbian & Gay Psychology Section 2004 Postgraduate Prize
As part of its commitment to the development of lesbian and gay psychology
in the UK, the BPS Lesbian & Gay Psychology Section instituted an annual
postgraduate prize in 2000. The prize is awarded for the best submission
based on a postgraduate thesis or on the research element of a
postgraduate portfolio that is relevant to lesbian and gay psychology.
The deadline for submissions is 1 September 2004.
The winning entry will be published in Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review.
The winner will receive a framed certificate, a year's free membership of
the Section and will have their registration fee paid to allow them to
attend a Section conference (or a BPS conference at which there is a
Section symposium) where they can receive their prize and present a paper
based on their submission.
The rules are as follows:
1. Entries are welcomed from graduates of or students/trainees on
PhD, PsychD/DPsych/DClinPsy (and other postgraduate practitioner courses)
and MSc/MA/MPhil courses
- who are Section members and
- who are currently working on their thesis/portfolio or
have submitted their thesis/portfolio within the 12 months prior to 1
September 2004 and
- whose thesis or portfolio (or the research element of the
portfolio) is relevant to lesbian and gay psychology.
Any individual can make only one entry in any year. Prize winners
are not eligible to submit further entries in future years. If in doubt
about your eligibility, please contact Victoria Clarke, Email
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2. Submissions should be based on a postgraduate thesis or – for
graduates of PsychD, DPsych, DClinPsy and other postgraduate practitioner
courses – on the research element of a postgraduate portfolio or course.
Submissions should be clearly relevant to lesbian and gay psychology. Do
not send a copy of the complete thesis or portfolio.
3. Submissions should be prepared in the form of an article for
Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review (see Notes for Contributors) and should
contain no more than 4000 words (excluding references). Please ensure that
your entry conforms exactly to the format of articles in Lesbian & Gay
Psychology Review (including the referencing format). However, the cover
sheet for entries differs from the cover sheet required for regular Review
submissions. All entries should be accompanied by a cover sheet
containing the following information:
(a) Your full name and postal address for correspondence and
an email address and/or telephone number where you can easily be contacted.
(b) Title of the postgraduate course for which you were
registered.
(c) Year in which the postgraduate course was commenced and
year of (expected) completion.
(d) Full address of the department and institution at which
you were/are registered.
(e) Name(s) and title(s) of supervisor(s).
(f) Finally, please type out and sign the following
statement: 'This submission is based on my postgraduate thesis/the
research aspect of my postgraduate portfolio or course, supervised by
_______. The submission has not previously been published in whole or in
part and it is not currently under submission for publication elsewhere.
I am willing for my supervisor to be contacted for further information.'
Also, we require four hard copies of each submission and an
electronic version sent as an email attachment, but do not require a
version on disk. Entries which do not conform to these requirements cannot
be considered and will be returned unread. Note that late submissions
cannot be accepted.
4. Submissions should be sent to Victoria Clarke, School of
Cognitive, Developmental and Social Psychology, Faculty of Applied
Sciences, University of the West of England, St Matthias Campus, Oldbury
Court Road, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 2JP. Email: [log in to unmask]
All submissions will be acknowledged.
5. All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by members of the
Lesbian & Gay Psychology Section Committee (except for committee members
who are eligible to submit entries for the prize), which will choose the
winning entry. If committee members conclude that none of the entries are
of an appropriate standard, the prize will not be awarded.
6. The winner will be notified by the beginning of November 2004 and
the winning submission will be published in Lesbian & Gay Psychology
Review in 2005 (as a single-authored article, with the supervisor(s)
credited in an acknowledgement). The decision of the Section committee
will be final. Feedback will not be provided on unsuccessful entries.
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