Grants and Prizes
Postgraduate Essay Prize
This competition is open to all students registered for a higher degree in the UK or Ireland at the time of essay submission (eg a Masters course or research degree such as MPhil/PhD/MDRes or equivalent. Not at graduate-entry medical programme level). We will check the registration status of all entrants whose work is short-listed.
Essays should:
- be on a endocrine subject
- be topical and assessable so that it can be readily understood by an educated lay person
- enhance public understanding of the subject
- be the original work of the candidate (essays will be checked electronically for plagiarism)
- not to be a formal scientific review and to be of a style and standard between New Scientist and the science pages of a quality broadsheet newspaper
- reflect a clear understanding of the subject
- not be a formal scientific review
- be a maximum of 1500 words
- quote a maximum of 10 references
A £1000 prize is available to the winning entrant with a number of runner up prizes. A number of Highly Commended Certificates will also be awarded
Conditions of entry:
- All applications must be submitted as a Word document in order to be able to anonymise them for marking.
- By entering the competition the entrant agrees to transfer the copyright of the submitted essay to the Society for Endocrinology, giving the Society the right to reproduce, distribute and broadcast the essay in printed, electronic or any other medium, and in turn to authorise others to do the same. The Society will also have the right to edit the essays as deemed appropriate for publishing.
- If your essay is not amongst the prize winners, all rights revert back to the author.
The entrant must promise that the article is their original work. If it contains material such as previously published illustrations or tables, the material must be clearly identified and acknowledged within the text.
- The Society reserves the right to withhold the prize if the standard of the essays submitted is not of sufficient merit.
- The registration status of all shortlisted entrants will be checked.
The winning name and details will be published in the Society's newsletter, The Endocrinologist. The winning essay may also be published in the newsletter and/or published externally if appropriate.
Deadline = 14 September 2010
Applicants will be notified by December at the latest