Submissions Open for 2024 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize
We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 2024 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize. Please note that the annual deadline for the prize has changed to allow the winner to attend the BRISMES annual conference.
This prize was established jointly in 1986 by the Leigh Douglas Memorial Fund and BRISMES in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986. The prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British university in the previous year. The current value of the prize is £600 for the winner and £250 for the runner up.
Eligibility
Any student who has submitted their PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities to a British University between 1 January and 30 September 2023 is eligible to apply. If you are submitting your thesis after the deadline in 2023, you will be eligible for the following year’s prize.
We recommend that submissions for this prize are made after completion of your viva in order to benefit from feedback from the viva panel, but applicants can make a submission before the viva if they wish. Please note that you can only submit your PhD dissertation once for this prize.
How to Apply
To enter, please send the following to office@brismes.org:
- An electronic copy of your thesis
- A letter of nomination from your supervisor
Deadline: Midnight on 1 November 2023
Entering your thesis for this award does not preclude entering it for other awards.