Have you carried out longitudinal research that makes a significant contribution to knowledge?
Does it have messages for improving life in Britain?
This is the opportunity to have your research recognised through a publication that would be widely promoted.
The Neville Butler Prize promotes excellence in the analysis of longitudinal data and reporting the results for a wide audience.
About The Prize
The Neville Butler Memorial Prize is in its second year and is aimed at promoting early career reseachers whose work comprises longitudinal research that both contributes to knowledge in a significant way, but also has evident social value and public relevance.
The main factors for setting up the prize are to promote the understanding and importance of longitudinal research within the public domain. The prize will reward and encourage publically relevant new work grounded in empirical analysis of longitudinal data. Additionally, an important aim is to enhance early career researcher’s capacity to communicate their findings to a wider audience.
The prize was set up by the Economic and Social Research Council and Longview in honour of the late Neville Butler, a distinguished paediatrician and Professor of child health, who was the outstanding international pioneer of life course studies during the second half of the 20th Century. Read more about how to apply (PDF).
Eligibility
The prize is open to all longitudinal researchers at the early stage of a career within five years of completing a successful viva for a PhD or an equivalent professional qualification or experience, currently engaged in longitudinal research in the UK. in any academic or policy field interdisciplinary research within the ESRC remit is eligible. Exceptions may be considered if an applicant has had a formal career break taken for family care responsibilities, health or other reasons. In such cases details about the interruption must be provided.
Winners will be expected to make themselves available for both the prize giving event and media opportunities that may arise, following the announcement of the prize. ESRC will provide media training and support with media enquiries as required. In addition, winners of the prize may be invited to attend events to help promote the prize to other early career researchers. To this end they are to provide a high-resolution digital photograph of themselves for publicity purposes.
Timetable
The Call for proposals opened on 18th May 2009; the Call closes on 30th November 2009. Prize winners will be announced at a prize giving event, as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science March 2010, venue to be confirmed.
All enquiries about the prize should be sent to info@longviewuk.com for the attention of Catherine Westlake.