The Peter Townsend Policy Press Prize

 

The British Academy, with the support of the Policy Press, is pleased to announce that it will award a prize biannually to commemorate the life and work of Peter Townsend, a former Fellow, who died in 2009 after a long and remarkable career. The prize, of £2,000 will be awarded to the author of what the Academy judges to be a piece of outstanding work with policy relevance and academic merit. It should be published within five years of the closing date for nominations, on this occasion 15^th February 2011, and be by anyone whose habitual residence is the UK, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man. The topic must fall within one or more of the fields to which Townsend made a major contribution - poverty and inequality, ageing and the lives of older people, disability, or inequalities in health. It must be published in the English language. An article, a book in more than one volume or a series of closely related articles will count as a single work.

Nomination forms may be downloaded from the British Academy web site where further details of the award may be obtained  http://www.britac.ac.uk/about/medals/townsend.cfm.

Questions may also be addressed to Angela Pusey ([log in to unmask]).

 

 

Ruth Lister
Emeritus Professor of Social Policy 
Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire LE11 3TU
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