We are delighted to launch the seventh annual Kirkpatrick Award for history of medicine research

Apply by 8 September 2017

The award will be made as part of the Heritage Centre Lectures at our annual St Luke’s Symposium on Thursday 19 October 2017. 

The Kirkpatrick Award aims to encourage and promote the study of the history of medicine in Ireland. The award prize is €500.

The Kirkpatrick Award is open to all researchers in the field of the history of medicine in Ireland, as well as related social and cultural history fields. The purpose of the award is to support and develop the study of the history of medicine in Ireland and to promote the use of the library, archive and heritage item collections held by RCPI.  You can watch last year's finalists' presentation on RCPI's You Tube channel.

Applicants are asked to submit an abstract based on their research (maximum 800 words) with a copy of their CV by Friday 8 September 2017.

Research must be unpublished and must have been undertaken in the last three years.  Research that has been submitted for publication will be considered, but details should be given of when and where it has been submitted, and if it has been accepted for publication.

A judging process will commence in September which will conclude with finalists presenting their 15 minute research papers on Thursday 19 October 2017.