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Society Prizes and Awards


The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies awards several annual prizes for contributions to eighteenth-century studies:

For Graduates and Early Career Scholars

The British Society for 18th-century Studies Research Fellowships

British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Bodleian Libraries Fellowships
With the Bodleian Libraries, the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports a one-month residence in Oxford by a  member of BSECS for research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Libraries on any topic in the study of the long eighteenth century. 

Further particulars, including eligibility criteria and details of the application process, are available from the website of the Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library, or by email : bookcentre@bodleian.ox.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0) 1865 277006

Applications open: 1 September in any year

Deadline: 17 January in any year.

The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / The Georgian Group, Dunscombe Colt Research Fellowship at the Bodleian Library

Research Fellowship at the Bodleian Library
With The Georgian Group, the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports a one-month research visit by a member of The Georgian Group to the Special Collections of the Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford. Applications will be considered from candidates seeking to research projects relating to the architecture or material culture (for example, sculpture) of the long eighteenth century (1660-1840).

Further particulars, including eligibility criteria and details of the application process, are available from the website of the Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library, or by email : bookcentre@bodleian.ox.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0) 1865 277006

Applications open: 1 September in any year

Deadline: 17 January in any year.

 

The BSECS Prize for Digital Resources

The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is pleased to call for nominations for the annual prize for the best digital resource supporting eighteenth- century studies.

The prize is sponsored by Adam Matthew Digital, and is judged and awarded by BSECS.

This prize promotes the highest standards in the development, utility and presentation of digital resources that assist scholars in the field of eighteenth-century studies broadly defined. Nominated resources should meet the highest academic standards and should contribute in one or more of the following ways:

  • by making available new materials, or presenting existing materials in new ways;
  • by supporting teaching of the period at university level;
  • by facilitating, or itself undertaking, innovative research.

The prize is intended to benefit the international research community, and the competition is open to projects from any country. Resources supporting any scholarly discipline are eligible. Websites or other resources and projects may be nominated by either creators or users. They must have been first launched on or after 1 January five years prior to the year in which the prize is awarded. The winner will be announced at the BSECS Annual Conference.

The award of £200 is made annually. The winner is announced at the annual conference in January.

Nominations open: 1 September in any year

Deadline: 13 December in any year

 

The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Teaching Prize

The aim of the prize is to encourage developments in teaching methods and approaches to 18th-century studies. The proposals may cover any areas of the discipline, be an entirely new course, a unit within an existing course, or a course newly taught. While proposals are welcome from all disciplines within 18th-century studies, weight will be given to those which combine a number of disciplines or areas of research.

The submission should consist of:

  1. a consideration of the proposed course or area of study.
  2. a brief outline of the course.
  3. a syllabus for the course.

The award of £200 is made annually. The winner will be announced on 1 March.

Nominations open: 1 September in any year

Deadline: 17 January in any year

 

The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies President's Prize

The President's Prize is awarded to the best postgraduate paper at the Annual Conference in January, as nominated by the session chairs and adjudicated by a special panel, which assesses for evidence of originality, rigour and presentational skills.

The award of £200 is made annually. The winner is announced on 1 March.

 

The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship, with The Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies

The aim of the Fellowship is provide support for an early career researchers: any doctoral student at a British university in their second year of study and above; and any post-doctoral researcher normally resident in Britain, within five years of the award of their PhD. It will normally involve the Fellow in research in libraries and archives in London, and also in making contacts with researchers at The Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies

More information can be found at http://www.qmul.ac.uk/eighteenthcentury:

 

The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Travelling Award, with the Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment

The British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies/Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment Travelling Award is open to any postgraduate enrolled in a higher education institution in the United Kingdom for research in France on any subject.

The award of £500 is made annually.

Nominations open: 1 September in any year

Deadline: 17 January in any year

 

The Haydn Mason Lecture

British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

The Mason lecture was established to mark the retirement of Haydn Mason, a former President of BSECS, from the Ashley Watkins Chair of French at the University of Bristol in 1994. Taking place every two years at the Annual Conference, its focus is on the European Enlightenment, with a preference for a French perspective to honour Mason's work. The lecture is designed to promote the work of an early-career scholar, who already has a track record of distinction.

By invitation.

 

The BSECS Bursaries for attendance at the Annual Conference

British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies awards a number of bursaries and fee waivers for attendance at the annual conference. For further details, please follow the links below.

 

Past holders of Awards

 

Past presenters of the Haydn Mason Lecture

  • 2012: Anne Lewis (Birkbeck College, University of London)
    'Picturing "Nature": Landscape & Memory in Illustrations to Rousseau's Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloïse (Gravelot, Marillier, Monsiau, Schall)'
  • 2010: Sanja Perovic (King's College, London)
    '"New Time" and the French Revolution'
  • 2008: Rebecca Ford (University of Nottingham)
    'Cyclops and Civilisation': Visiting the Workplace in Enlightenment France.'
  • 2006: David McCallum (University of Sheffield)
    'Exploring Volcanoes in the Late French Enlightenment: The Savant and the Sublime'
  • 2004: Richard Clay (Nottingham)
    'The transformation of signs: Iconoclasm and spatial coding in Revolutionary Paris'
  • 2002: Rachel Cowgill (University of Leeds)
    '"Wild, capricious, and not always pleasing": Mozart and Musical Genius in Late Eighteenth-Century England"
  • 2000: Kimberly Chrisman (University of Aberdeen)
    'The Face of Fashion: Milliners in Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture'
  • 1998: Mark Ledbury (University of Portsmouth)
    'Serious Parody: Jacques Louis David and Pre-Revolutionary Drama''
  • 1996: Jenny Mander (University of Cambridge)
    'The Pedagogic Circle: Reading and the Eighteenth-Century French Novel'

 

Past holders of The British Society for 18th-century Studies Research Fellowships

  • 2013 Rachel M. Schneider, University of Texas at Austin (to the BSECS/Bodleian Libraries Fellowships) ‘Contesting Fragments: Print, Politics, and Graphic Design in Eighteenth-Century England.’
  • 2012 Eliza O'Brien (to the BSECS/Bodleian Libraries Fellowships) for Imprisonment and the British Political Novel: Writing to Reform in the 1790s
  • 2011 Simon Mills (to the BSECS/Bodleian Libraries Fellowships) for The Levant in Eighteenth-Century England
  • 2010 John Stone (to the BSECS Fellowships) for Scottish merchants in late eighteenth-century Spain

 

Past holders of The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / The Georgian Group, Dunscombe Colt Research Fellowship at the Bodleian Library

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