Wyse Prize for PhD Proposals

Courtesy of the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, Prof Henrietta Moore, we are pleased to announce a competition for the best research proposal for a PhD Thesis falling within the remit of the Division’s three research tracks: Intimate Aspirations and the Ethics of Relationships, Resources: Natural, Conceptual, Human; and Sociality in Transformation. The winner will receive a prize of £500 which is to be spent on supporting research for their PhD. This could involve travel costs, equipment costs, or the purchase of relevant books.

The deadline for this will be 30th June, 2012 – but applications may be submitted earlier too.

Please note the following:

1.  Applicants to the PhD in Social Anthropology should submit additionally to the Social Anthropology’s Graduate Administrator 3 hard copies of the Research Proposal.   This should be of no more than 1,000 words detailing and justifying the broad scope, research questions and specific areas they intend to pursue in their research by the date above.  These copies should be entitled  “Research Proposal For Wyse Prize for PhD Research” and should have the title of the project, date and the name of the candidate.  Candidates for the MRes in the first instance are also eligible to apply.

2. To be eligible for the prize, the proposed work must engage substantively with one or more of the Division’s research tracks. Details can be found on the website at http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/research/.

3. PhD’s that pursue other lines of enquiry will not be eligible for the prize, but are – of course – still eminently eligible to be submitted as applications for the PhD.

4. The criteria for assessment will be acceptance of the candidate to the PhD course, the intellectual merit of the research proposal, and the project’s relevance to the Division’s research strategy.

5.  The winning candidate will be notified and the award will be made when they take up their place in Cambridge to embark on the PhD.