Book Award

The Research Board and the Psychology Education Board invite nominations for the Society's annual Book Award.

Award: A cheque for £500 plus a commemorative certificate will be presented at the Annual Conference at which the winner will have been invited to deliver a lecture.

Criteria:

• The author, or at least one co-author, must be resident in the UK.
• The book must be published after 1st January 2006.
• Edited collections of papers are NOT eligible, nor are books published by the Society.
• The nominated book must be considered to have made a significant contribution to the advancement of psychology. To this end - an academic monograph would be expected to make a significant contribution to the advancement of psychological knowledge, an educational textbook to expound the teaching of psychology with clarity and insight, a more popular text to make psychology accessible to a wider public, and a professional text to expand the scientific bases for the practice of psychology.

Nominations:

• Nominators may be individuals, authors, publishers or their agents.
• Nominations should include the full title of the book, the name(s) of the authors, the publisher and date of publication, plus a short statment (not more than 1 side of A4) explaining why the author(s) should receive the Book Award.
• Copies of at least two published reviews of the book must be included.
• Supporting statements from up to three additional referees with expertise in that field should also be included.
• A copy of the book should also be sent, whenever possible.
• Nominations should be addressed to the Chair of the Board c/o Dr Lisa Morrison Coulthard at the Society's Leicester Office.

The Panel of judges will not include anyone involved in publishing a nominated book. The Panel will assess each book on how successful it has been in achieving its purposes.

Deadline: Friday 26 September 2008

Previous Winners

2005 Sight Unseen by Prof David Milner and Prof Mel Goodale
2006 Consciousness: Creeping up on the hard problem by Prof Jeffrey Gray
2007 Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (2nd edition) by Dr Andy Field
2008 Making Up the Mind by Prof Christopher Frith