{"id":51,"date":"2013-05-16T00:08:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T00:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blcs.eng.cam.ac.uk\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:00:11","slug":"prizes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?page_id=51","title":{"rendered":"Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following\u00a0prizes are awarded by the BLCS:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><a title=\"Gray Medal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?page_id=55\">The Gray Medal<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a title=\"Hilsum Medal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?page_id=65\">The Hilsum Medal<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a title=\"Sturgeon Lectureship\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?page_id=74\">The Sturgeon Lectureship<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a title=\"Sturgeon Prize\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?page_id=77\">The Sturgeon Prize<\/a>\u00a0(with SID UK and Ireland)\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a title=\"Young Scientist Award\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?page_id=80\">The BLCS Young Scientist Award<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The call for nominations for the 2026 awards is now open. It was opened in January 2026 and will close on the deadline date of <em><strong>20 February <\/strong><strong>2026 <\/strong><\/em>for panel decision.<\/p>\n<p>See also, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Prizes-and-Medals_Advert-2026.pdf\">2026_call_for_nominations<\/a>\u00a0and <a title=\"Nominations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?page_id=60\">nomination rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>The BLCS Awards Committee<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Each year nominations received are reviewed by a panel of experts following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Terms-of-Reference-v2-04-11-2016.pdf\">Terms of Reference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awards committee members 2024-2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Doug Cleaver<\/li>\n<li>Professor Sally Day<\/li>\n<li>Professor Ingo Dierking<\/li>\n<li>Professor Georg Mehl<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following\u00a0prizes are awarded by the BLCS: The Gray Medal\u00a0 The Hilsum Medal\u00a0 The Sturgeon Lectureship\u00a0 The Sturgeon Prize\u00a0(with SID UK and Ireland)\u00a0 The BLCS Young Scientist Award The call for nominations for the 2026 awards is now open. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?page_id=51\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":80,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}