The British Academy Medal is awarded annually by the
British Academy to up to three individuals or groups. It is awarded for "outstanding achievement that has transformed understanding of a particular subject or field of study in ... any branch of the humanities and social sciences". It was first awarded in 2013.[1][2] It is the first medal awarded by the British Academy for any subject within the remit of the academy.[2] According to a reputation survey conducted in 2018, it is the third most prestigious interdisciplinary award in the social sciences, after the
Holberg Prize and the
Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.[3] The British Academy medal is no longer being awarded since 2019.
List of recipients
2013
Three people were awarded the British Academy Medal in 2013.[2]
Dr
Timothy Bruce Mitford, FSA, for East of Asia Minor: Rome’s Hidden Frontier, Vols I & II (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Professor
Catherine Whistler, for Venice and Drawing, 1500–1800: Theory, Practice and Collection (Yale University Press, 2016)
2019
In 2019, one individual was awarded the British Academy Medal:[9]
Professor
Naomi Oreskes, for Merchants of Doubt (Bloomsbury Press, 2010) and The Collapse of Western Civilization (Columbia University Press, 2014), and for her commitment to documenting the role of corporations in distorting scientific findings for political ends
^Jiang, Fan; Liu, Niancai (2018). "The hierarchical status of international academic awards in social sciences". Scientometrics.
doi:
10.1007/s11192-018-2928-y.