Dear Colleague
I am writing to invite you to submit your nominations for the PSA’s 2011 Awards.
The PSA Awards represent an opportunity for the Association to recognise the achievements of those people and organisations that have had the most significant impact or made the most impressive contributions to our political life. It is important to bear in mind that in conferring an award the PSA is in no way supporting or opposing a particular person, policy or viewpoint but merely acknowledging an influence or “achievement”.
Nominations are invited for the categories listed in the tables below. The deadline for nominations is Friday, 24th June.
Nominations should be sent to Charlie Jeffery, Acting Chair of the Awards Committee at [log in to unmask] (NOT to [log in to unmask] please). Colleagues who have difficulties with the tables below may download copies from the PSA website here [Word] [pdf]. You will find a complete list of all previous Award winners on the PSA website if you click About the PSA and go to Awards.
Best wishes
Helena Djurkovic
CEO
Politics Awards
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Politician of the Year
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This is an award for domestic politicians who have made a significant impact in 2011. Any person elected for political office in the UK can be considered. |
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Parliamentarian of the Year |
This is an award for domestic politicians. The said politician should have made a particular contribution as a parliamentarian (in either the UK Parliament or devolved institutions) over a sustained period. This might be in their role as a representative, member of the frontbenches, backbenches, or a parliamentary body (eg select committee chair), in their relations with constituents and/or the public more widely. |
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Backbencher of the Year |
This is an award for domestic politicians who have made an especially significant impact on UK politics from the backbenches, including work in parliamentary committees. |
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Lifetime Achievement in Politics |
This is an award for domestic politicians. Any person elected for political office in the UK can be considered. |
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Influencing the Political Agenda |
This award is open to individuals and/or organisations who have influenced or set the political agenda over a sustained period. It is a domestic prize. |
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Speech of the Year |
This is an award for domestic politicians who have made a speech that is recognised to have had historic significance and to have been presented with eloquence. |
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Outstanding Politician in Local Government |
This is an award for a politician in UK local government who has made a contribution at local level which has been especially innovative, and/or which has shaped political debate in other localities or at national level. |
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Media Awards
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Categories |
Description |
Nominations |
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Journalist of the Year |
This is an award made to an individual journalist making a significant contribution to politics over a sustained period. These may be print (or other) journalists operating for UK organisations. Their area of specialism is open, and importantly may be beyond parliamentary politics. |
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Broadcaster of the Year |
This is an award for outstanding contributions to broadcast journalism over a sustained period. |
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Publication of the Year |
This is an award for a newspaper, periodical, report, or other publication that has made a particularly important contribution to political debate. |
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Best Satire |
This is an award for outstanding contribution to satire over a sustained period. This category is broadly defined and might include parliamentary sketches, impersonations, political comedy, cartoons, novels etc. |
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Engaging the Public |
This award is designed to recognise outstanding contributions in the field of broadcast or print journalism that have brought politics to the lives of the public. It is open to individuals, programmes and publications. |
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Special Recognition Award |
This is an award made to an individual journalist, or team of journalists, who has/have made a sustained and outstanding contribution to debate on, and analysis of, politics |
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Blogger of the Year |
This award is for an influential and distinctive contribution in blogs or other forms of new media which has had a significant impact on political debate in the UK. |
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Academic Awards
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Special Recognition Award (s) |
Up to (3?) special recognition awards for academics who have demonstrated an established contribution to political studies over their career. Research, teaching, public engagement and service to the profession may all be recognised by this award. |
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Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies |
This annual award is for those who can demonstrate a lifetime contribution to the study and understanding of politics. |
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Politics/Political Studies Communicator |
Open to academics (either British or non-British academics working in the UK) who can demonstrate an excellence in dissemination of political ideas to the public. This might be through the media, or through open lectures/seminars, policy pamphlets etc. |
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Outstanding Achievement by an Early Career Political Scientist |
This award is for an academic in the first decade of his or her career who has made an original and influential contribution to the study and understanding of politics. |
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Innovation in Teaching Politics |
This award is for an academic, or group of academics, who have fired the interest of students in political studies through the use of innovative methods of teaching and learning. |
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International Award
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Category |
Description |
Nominations |
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Special International Award |
This is an occasional international award that is open to a politician, campaigner, journalist or other person or organisation that has made a particularly significant contribution to political ideas or action. |
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