Leverhulme Medal (British Academy)

The Leverhulme Medal and Prize is awarded by the British Academy every three years 'for a significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in a field within the humanities and social sciences'. It was first awarded in 2002 and is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.[1]

List of recipients

Year Name Field Notes
2002 Sir Ernst Gombrich and Sir Raymond Firth Art History (Gombrich), Anthropology and Ethnology (Firth) [1]
2005 Sir Tony Wrigley Geography [2]
2009 Sebastian Brock Aramaic language [3]
2012 Dame Marilyn Strathern Anthropology [4]
2015 Sir Richard J. Evans Modern German History [5]
2018 Professor David W. Harvey, FBA "For demonstrating the importance of the social sciences in understanding the modern complexities of capitalism, urbanism and questions of social justice." [6]
2021 Professor Catherine Hall, FBA "In recognition of Professor Hall’s impact across modern and contemporary British history, particularly in the fields of class, gender, empire and postcolonial history" [7]
2024 Charles Hulme and Maggie Snowling "for their complementary contributions to understanding childhood learning development, particularly dyslexia and developmental language disorders" [8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Leverhulme Medal and Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences". British Academy. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  2. ^ "Leverhulme Medal and Prize 2005". Prizes and Medals. British Academy. Archived from the original on 20 September 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  3. ^ "Leverhulme Medal and Prize 2009". Prizes and Medals. British Academy. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Leverhulme Medal and Prize 2012". Prizes and Medals. British Academy. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  5. ^ "British Academy announces 2015 prize and medal winners". British Academy. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Award-winning journalists, prehistorians and world-leading economists honoured with prestigious British Academy prizes and medals", The British Academy, 20 August 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  7. ^ "UCL professor recognised for ground-breaking work on legacies of British slavery". UCL. 2 September 2021.
  8. ^ "2024 Leverhulme Medal and Prize announced". Leverhulme Trust. 14 October 2024. Archived from the original on 14 December 2024. Retrieved 14 December 2024.