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HES Research Fellowship Award, 2008-09

The History of Education Society invites applications for a Research Fellowship to be held in 2008-09.[1] The value of the Research Fellowship is £5,000. The purpose of the Research Fellowship is to support high quality research in the History of Education. The Research Fellowship is expected to result in published work based on the research funded by the Fellowship and it is an expectation that a report on the research will be submitted for publication to the History of Education Researcher. The Research Fellowship may be held individually or jointly by one or more researchers and is open to new and established researchers at any stage of their career.

Applications, in the format below, should be sent to Dr Jane Martin, Vice President of the History of Education Society (labelled The History of Education Research Fellowship Award), Dept. of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, to arrive by 30 April 2008 The Fellowship holder will be announced on the History of Education Society website on 30th June 2008. Further details here.

 

HES GB Postgraduate Student Article Prize 2008

A national prize is awarded annually[1] for an original article in the field of history of education published between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2007. The article will be considered by a panel of judges appointed by the executive of the History of Education Society GB. A monetary prize is awarded of £100 and free attendance at the following History of Education Society annual conference, when the prize will be awarded. Further details here.

[1] The History of Education Society reserves the right not to award the Prize in any year.

 

[1] The Society reserves the right not to award the Fellowship.

 

HES (UK) Anne Bloomfield Book Prize

Initiated in 1989, and, since 2007 re-named the Anne Bloomfield Book Prize, in memory of Anne's chairing of the 2003 and 2007 panels, this prize has honoured some outstanding contributions to the field, listed below. The most recent competition covers books published in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and the prize is awarded to Rebecca Rogers for her book From the Salon to the Schoolroom: Educating Bourgeois Girls in Nineteenth-Century France (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press). 

Past winners

1986-1988:    Margaret Bryant   The London Experience of Secondary Education
(London : Athlone, 1986)

1989-1991:    David Vincent   Literacy and Popular Culture: England 1750-1914
(Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1989)

1992-1994:    R.J.W.Selleck   James Kay-Shuttleworth: Journey of an Outsider
(Ilford: Woburn Press , 1994)

1995-1997:    Kathryn Castle   Britannia’s Children: Reading Colonialism through
children’s books and magazines (Manchester : Manchester University Press ,
1996)

1998-2000:    Jane Martin, Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and
Edwardian England  (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1999)

2001-2003 Harold Silver  Higher Education and Opinion Making in Twentieth Century

England (London: Woburn Press, 2003)

 

HES (UK) Essay Prize

A national prize is awarded annually[1] for an original essay in the field of history of education. The essay, which may have been produced earlier as an assignment or conference paper, will be considered by a panel of judges appointed by the executive of the History of Education Society UK . A monetary prize is awarded of £100 and free attendance at the following History of Education Society annual conference (including travel in the UK to and from the conference), when the prize will be awarded. 

Past winners 

2005 Nicola Sheldon and Geert Thyssen (joint winners)

2006 Prize not awarded. 

2007 John Harte for his essay 'Contesting the Past in Mandate Palestine: History Teaching for Palestinian Arabs under British Rule, 1917-1948'
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[1] The Society reserves the right not to award in any year if no submissions are deemed to reach an appropriate standard. They may also award more than one essay prize in a year in exceptional circumstances.

 

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