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Richard Cox Postgraduate Prize
Postgraduate Conference Paper Prize
Part of the BSSH’s mission is to be accessible to and encourage new researchers, including postgraduate students and academics at an early stage in their careers.
The BSSH Committee wish to encourage the submission of papers by postgraduates to their annual conference.
The prize will be awarded to reflect outstanding work from new researchers in sports history. The winner will be selected by a panel of judges based on a written paper and on the delivery of that paper at the annual conference. The winning paper will be awarded £100 and a certificate. The researcher will also be invited to submit their paper to the Society’s refereed Journal Sport in History.
Application Procedure
At the time of the initial submission of their abstract for their paper the author should indicate that they wish to be considered for the Richard Cox Prize. They should explain the basis upon which the author is eligible i.e. at the time of submitting their paper authors should be engaged in full or part-time postgraduate research or be within 1 year of completing their research degree.
Co-authored papers will not normally be considered.
Style
While we encourage the submission of different kinds of papers, to be eligible for the prize, papers must be a maximum of 6,000 words. Style should be consistent throughout, i.e footnotes where appropriate, and a separate list of references. Papers should be no smaller than size 12 Times New Roman and 1.5 or double spacing. Name and contact details of author, paper title, short abstract with keywords must also be included on a separate page (please follow SiH conventions).
The assessment process
The written paper must be submitted to the conference organizers a month prior to the first day of the annual conference. A panel of judges will be selected by the BSSH Committee which will assess both the content of the papers under consideration and the presentation.
Award of the Prize
The winner of the Prize will be notified within one month of the conference and it will be announced on the BSSH website and Bulletin.
Any questions concerning the Richard Cox Prize should be sent to our conference organizers.
BRITISH SOCIETY OF SPORTS HISTORY SCOTTISH NETWORK - programme and registration form
INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, 8 June 2013
Partick Burgh Hall, Glasgow
Register now by downloading, completing and returning the registration form
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
0900 REGISTRATION, Lesser Burgh Hall
0930 WELCOME
Matthew L. McDowell, University of Glasgow
0940 SCOTLAND AND FOOTBALL
Chair: Matthew L. McDowell
Andy Mitchell, Independent Researcher
'A number of gentlemen met at No 3 Eglinton Terrace': a new perspective on the formation of Scotland's first association football club, Queen's Park FC
Nick Aplin, National Institute of Education, Singapore
The Scottish Connection: Robert Scoular and Friends bring Football to Singapore
John H. McKendrick, Glasgow Caledonian University
When we never had it so bad, we never made it so good. The limits of historical football memories
1100 BREAK
1115 SCOTTISH SPORT AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Chair:
Tony Brown, University of Southampton
Dunes, Rabbits and Golf: 'Links' between Social Practise, Environmental Change and Landscape
David Worthington, University of the Highlands and Islands
'...such princely sport as might alleviat the dullest spirit'? Possible new directions for research into the history of sport in the Highlands
Barry Wright, University of the Highlands and Islands
Sport in the Eastern and Northern Highlands during the seventeenth century
1235 LUNCH
1335 SPORT, THE COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY
Chair:
Dion Georgiou, Queen Mary, University of London
'We'll Spend the Night in Visions Bright of Carnival Once More': Ritual and Festivity in the Ilford Carnival, 1905-1914
David Chaplin, Northwest Nazarene University
John Harris, Glasgow Caledonian University
'Pugilistic Pastoring': Volunteering in Amateur Boxing as Missionary Work
Nicola A. Burton, Independent Researcher
Celtic. Rangers. Scotland. Europe. How devolution on the 2014 referendum campaign is reshaping Scotland's two biggest football clubs
1455 BREAK
1510 SCOTTISH SPORT AND THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
Chair:
Lindy Moore, Independent Researcher
Exercise and the Scottish Schoolgirl
Michelle Moseley-Christian, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, c. 1795: Skating as Symbol of Cultural Exchange
David Affleck, Independent Researcher
A History of Curling in East Lothian (Haddingtonshire): The Early Years of Organised Clubs
1630 FUTURE AGENDA
1700 END OF SYMPOSIUM
Sport and Leisure History Seminars: Summer 2013 Programme
The seminars will take place in Senate House in London, at 5:15 PM on Mondays fortnightly.
20 May: Ya-Lei Yen (Royal Holloway, University of London)
English Middle Class Women's Participation in Sport: Dress and Gender Relations, c. 1851-1875
Location: Bloomsbury Room (Room G35)
3 Jun: Ellen Wright (University of East Anglia)
Spectacular Bodies: The Swimsuit, Censorship and Hollywood
Location: Gordon Room (Room G34)
17 Jun: Lyanne Holcombe (Kingston University)
Paternalistic Culture and the Promotion of Leisure in the Regent Palace Hotel, 1918-1939
Location: Bloomsbury Room (Room 35)
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