Book Award

The call for nominations for the 2010 award is now closed.

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 2007.
• 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: Monday 28 September 2009

Previous Winners

A full list of previous award winners is available from the History of Psychology Centre (HOPC).

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
2009 Working Memory, Thought and Action by Prof Alan Baddeley