We are able to provide prizes for a variety of academic career stages. EPS committee members review prize nominations once a year, following the deadline of 1st September, which applies to all of the below prizes.
Current members of the EPS Committee are not eligible and nominations may be made by any Ordinary Member of the Society. Nominees are not restricted to EPS members and there are no restrictions of nationality. The committee does not accept self-nominations.
The Committee will make a recommendation to the Annual General Meeting (the January following the deadline), at which members confirm the award winner.
The recipient of any of the below prizes will be invited to deliver a Lecture at one of the Society’s scientific meetings. Reasonable travel and accommodation expenses incurred in connection with the delivery of the Lecture will be reimbursed. The Lecture is delivered at a meeting of the Society in the forthcoming year and is open to the general public without payment.
After the Lecture has been delivered, the Lecturer is asked to submit a manuscript of the Lecture to the Society for publication. Recipients will also be awarded an honorarium, paid on delivery of the manuscript in a form suitable for publication (except for the Frith Prize recipient, who does not need to submit a manuscript and the honorarium is paid following the delivery of the recipients talk).
Sir Frederic Bartlett Lectureship
Nominees will normally have gained their PhD at least 25 years prior to nomination.
Nominees typically will have gained their PhD 15 – 25 years prior to nomination (bearing in mind career breaks or part-time employment etc).
Nominees will normally have gained their PhD no more than 6 years prior to nomination (bearing in mind career breaks or part-time employment etc).
The Frith Prize is an EPS Early Career Award (up to one year post doctorate) established in 2011 by a gift from Chris and Uta Frith. Its purpose is to recognise experimental psychologists at the start of their career who have produced an exceptional body of work in their PhD thesis. The thesis should have been examined no more than one year before the nomination (assuming full-time employment and the absence of a career break).