ipda Prizes
* Guidelines for the ERIKA LOVELADY IPDA PRIZE
1. The winner must be enrolled or registered on a degree programme, or recently completed a programme.
2. The winning student dissertation, thesis or paper must be based on work that the student is currently undertaking in relation to his/her degree.
3. The student’s work should address social and diversity issues, such as disability, special needs, poverty, racism and sexism.
4. The student’s work must be able to show how education and professional development can help tackle diversity and social issues.
5. The winning submission should demonstrate new conceptual thinking.
above: ERIKA LOVELADY IPDA PRIZE 2010 winner Patricia Waples
* Guidelines for the ‘PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATION’ PRIZE
1. A key purpose of the PDiE prize is to encourage ‘first time publication’. The nominees for this prize therefore, will not have had any work previously published in any peer reviewed academic journals.
2.The winner should be currently or have been recently engaged in workplace-based enquiry/research.
3. The winning entry must demonstrate how the work undertaken informs and advances continuing professional development policy and/or practice.
4. The winning paper should clearly demonstrate innovative and creative thinking.
5. An abstract of the paper (300 words) will be published in the Journal at the earliest opportunity following the award.
above: SYMPOSIUM BOOKS IPDA PRIZE winner 2010: Wieland Wermke
* Guidelines for the INSTITUTE for LEARNING PRIZE
1. The prize-winner must be registered with IfL as a member /associate member.
2. The prize -winner should be a trainee/teacher currently registered, or have completed training the previous academic year, on a PCET teacher training programme at a UK institution.
3. The winning trainee/teacher research report/ paper must be based on work that the trainee/teacher is currently undertaking in relation to his/her training programme.
4. The trainee/teacher's work should address pedagogical issue related to their practice.
5. The trainee/teacher's work must be able to show how education and professional development can improve the quality of their learner’s experience.
6. The winning submission should demonstrate new conceptual thinking.
* Guidance notes:
Entries submitted for prizes should not exceed 4000 words. If it is a research report, a dissertation, thesis or paper, the entry should consist of a letter from a sponsor which should highlight the reasons for the work being nominated and accompanied by an abstract of 200 words outlining the work itself.
Candidates for prizes must be nominated by a current ipda member. Members wishing to make a nomination should write/e-mail to Jim O'Brien at: Jim.O'Brien@ed.ac.uk identifying the particular prize, the name and contact details of the person being nominated and a letter in support of the nominee as outlined above. Closing date for nominations is 1st November.
The prize winners will be invited to the conference where they will be presented with their prizes. The winners will be guests of ipda at the conference and will receive, by courtesy of our sponsors, a cheque for £100, a medal and a certificate noting their award. The prize winners agree that their papers may be made available to be shared with other trainees, teachers and researchers in order to achieve the desired aim of advancing the case for high quality professional development.