Submissions are now invited for the Student Prize for Feminist Scholarship (2015) hosted by the ‘Radical Women: 50 Years of Feminism at Kent’ project.
Open to undergraduate and postgraduate students currently registered at the University of Kent, the competition aims to celebrate innovative student scholarship grounded in feminist theory and practice.
The Scholarship Prize 2015 Committee welcomes written submissions of original work from students in all academic disciplines and fields of study. Submissions should be drawn from current or previous course work, research projects, and/or research dissertations. All submissions must be formatted to fit the word limits stated below, which means some pieces of work may need to be expanded or shortened from the original product. Submissions that do not meet the word limits will not be eligible for the award. Submitted work should not have been previously published.
Entries may address (but need not be limited to): contemporary gender relations; feminist history and politics; gender/sexual identities and subjectivities; social inequalities and rights; gender, economics and social policy; gender prejudice; gender justice; sexuality and LGBTQ politics; femininities and masculinities; feminism and critical race studies; transnational feminisms; and feminist/gender issues in social and legal studies, geography, media and culture, literature and the arts, science and technology, psychology and medicine etc.
Students are invited to submit in the category below that applies to their current registration status:
Undergraduate Scholarship Prize:
- Current undergraduate students registered at the University of Kent
- Word limit: 3,000 – 6,000 words (including bibliography and footnotes)
Postgraduate Scholarship Prize:
- Current postgraduate students (on both taught and research programmes) registered at the University of Kent
- Word limit: 4,000 – 8,000 words (including bibliography and footnotes)
All entries should be formatted as a Word document in black 12 point Times New Roman font and double- spaced.
Entries must be submitted electronically and include a completed competition cover sheet. Cover sheets can be downloaded here. Essays can be submitted to: femscholarship@kent.ac.uk
**The deadline for all submissions is 15th April 2015**
The Scholarship Prizes will be announced in June 2015. A winner and runner-up will be selected in each category by an interdisciplinary judges panel. Winners in each category will receive a certificate and £100 worth of prize vouchers. Runners-up in each category will receive a certificate and £50 worth of prize vouchers.
Questions about the competition should be directed to Dr Rachel Calogero (R.Calogero@kent.ac.uk) or Dr Carolyn Pedwell (c.e.pedwell@kent.ac.uk).
This article first appeared on the ‘Celebrating 50 Years’ pages of Kent’s website.