Prizes and Medals

Prizes and medals are an important means of recognising and celebrating 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.

2011 Winners: (left to right back row) Dr Conor Newman, Randall Smith, Dr Adrian Popescu (accepting on behalf of the late Dr Mark Blackburn); (left to right middle row) Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Julia Johnson, Dr Gillian Tett; (left to right front row) Prof Fiona Stafford, Prof Andrew Mayes, British Academy President Prof Sir Adam Roberts, Prof Patricia Fortini Brown, Sharon Witherspoon and Prof David Peacock.

• 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 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
• Kenyon Medal - for work relating to classical studies and archaeology
• Leverhulme Medal and Prize  - for humanities and social sciences
• Serena Medal - for services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, literature, art or economics
• The Peter Townsend Policy Press Prize - for outstanding work with policy relevance to poverty and inequality, ageing and the lives of older people, disability and inequalities in health
• The Wiley Prize in Psychology
• The President's Medal - for signal service to the humanities and social sciences