Prizes and Medals

Prizes and medals are an important means of recognising and celebrating important achievement. Each year the British Academy awards a range of prizes and medals on the recommendation of specialist committees. Presentations are made at a special award ceremony each autumn. 

• Derek Allen Prize - for numismatics, Celtic studies and musicology
• Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies
• Grahame Clark Medal - for prehistoric archaeology
• John Coles Medal for Landscape Archaeology
• Rose Mary Crawshay Prize - for historical or critical works concerned with English literature
• Sir Israel Gollancz Prize - for published work of sufficient value on subjects connected with Anglo-Saxon, Early English Language and Literature, English Philology, or the History of English Language; or for original investigations connected with the history of English Literature or the works of English writers
• Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies - for work relating to classical literature or archaeology
• Leverhulme Medal - for humanities and social sciences
• Serena Medal - for services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, literature, art or economics
• The Wiley Prize in Psychology
• The President's Medal - for signal service to the humanities and social sciences