Dissertation Prize 2016

• Undergraduate submissions: 1 August 2016, 5pm
• Postgraduate submissions: 1 December 2016, 5pm

The AAH Dissertation Prize is awarded every year. There’s two awards: one for undergraduate dissertations and something for postgraduate (Master’s-level) dissertations.

The 2016 prize is perfect for dissertations written throughout the 2015-16 academic year.

2015 Dissertation Prize Winners

Postgraduate Dissertation Prize 2015: Amy Parrish. (Courtauld Institute of Art) for ‘Altering Tastes: The Works of art of Guido Reni’

Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2015: Saarthak Singh. (College of St Andrews) for ‘Paradigms of Protection: The ‘hidden’ mind in Vishnu Sculptures from Kashmir

The Dissertation Prizes

The winning entry for undergraduate and postgraduate submissions will get:

• A £200 cash prize
• Book tokens to the need for £150
• Free AAH membership for just one year
• Publication of the 300-word abstract from the winning entry within the AAH Bulletin
• Free admittance to the AAH Annual Conference and Bookfair*, in which the Prize is going to be formally awarded.

* The prizewinners is going to be titled to free admittance to the Annual Conference however they be forced to pay for his or her own travel and accommodation.

• Records are asked from students signed up for (or lately finished) courses within the good reputation for art and visual culture or courses in fine arts at United kingdom institutions. A brief history of art and visual culture will be understood in the largest sense for instance, past winning records have incorporated studies of trade union imagery, tomb sculpture and attention from the first Gulf War.
• Dissertations should have been posted in fulfilment of coursework needs (lengthy essay/dissertation) in the past academic year (2014-2015).
• Dissertations joined for that Undergraduate Dissertation Prize should have been posted included in the entrant’s first undergraduate degree within the arts and humanities.
• Dissertations mustn’t happen to be formerly printed.
• Records should be endorsed by an instructional nominator (a student’s supervisor or any other representative using their college/college) through the nomination form (see ‘Submissions’ section below).
• Essays could be posted by either the educational nominator or even the student entrant. All documentation dissertation, abstract, entry form and nomination form (see ‘Submission’ section below) should be connected to the same email.
• The dissertation and abstract documents should be entirely anonymous. There has to be simply no trace of the name, institution, or other identifying information. Including, however is not restricted to, omitting any supervisor names and then any other named acknowledgements. The file name from the dissertation document should be the title only (e.g. a dissertation titled ‘Picasso and Modernism’ should be posted as ‘PicassoandModernism.pdf’ and it is abstract as ‘PicassoandModernismAbstract’) don’t incorporate your name, or other information. Also, any identifying information within the files’ metadata ought to be removed where possible. Any dissertations or abstracts coming with any identifying information inside them will instantly be declared invalid.
• Dissertations which aren’t posted based on these rules won’t be recognized.

Submitting your dissertation with this prize

To go in the prize the next should be posted by either a student or their academic nominator, separate documents connected to the same email:

• An entire electronic copy from the dissertation in PDF or Ms Word format
• A 300-word abstract in PDF or Ms Word format.
• A completed entry form in PDF or Word format.
• A scanned image or PDF from the completed nomination form. signed through the applicant’s academic nominator.

The entire size attachments mustn’t exceed 6MB. You may want to lower-res any images used to meet up with this limit.

Please also make reference to the Rules in the above list (especially in relation to anonymity) while preparing your submission.

Submissions ought to be emailed to: awards@aah.org.united kingdom .

How are submissions assessed

The dissertations is going to be be double-marked through the AAH Student People Committee then the champion is going to be selected from the short-list by AAH Trustees. The choice is final with no correspondence is going to be joined into regarding the knowing.

Dissertations is going to be assessed around the following criteria:

1. Originality. The dissertation should demonstrate an adult and original method of issues and styles of current concern towards the discipline in the largest interpretation.

2. Research Method. The dissertation should demonstrate proof of broad and thorough research, mixing primary and secondary sources as appropriate. It ought to show a obvious understanding of appropriate methodological approaches.

3. Content Form. The dissertation ought to be clearly structured and stick to correct grammar and spelling conventions. All source material ought to be soundly evaluated and referenced, the argument or type of enquiry ought to be balanced and also the conclusion well grounded.

The choice from the AAH is final. By submitting the applying you accept the circumstances of the prize. The AAH reserves the authority to periodically revise the circumstances of the prize and also to publish the specific prizewinners.

The knowing process for these two prizes takes several several weeks but we predict to announce the winners of both prizes through the finish of Feb 2016 in the latest.

Please make sure that you possess the following submission forms

Undergraduate champion: Amy Partridge (College of Leeds), Destruction Or Integration? The Implications of Christianity For Anglo-Saxon Culture and Art

Postgraduate champion: Dina Akhmadeeva (College of Oxford), Searching outwards, remaining put: shipwrecked mariners, colored representations of Russia and contact with the outdoors world in Edo-period Japan

Undergraduate: Lucy Farrar (College of Glasgow), Mister Alfred Gilbert’s ‘Kippen Bronzes’: A Reassessment and Aurella Yussuf (College of Brighton), All of the women are white-colored, all of the blacks are men, but some people are. American? A comparative research into the visibility of black women artists working in london and New You are able to, 2009-2013

Postgraduate: Anya Burgon (College of Cambridge), False Colours: Overcoming Significant difference within the Appearance of St Bernard of Clairvaux and David Zagoury (College of Oxford), ‘If the Doorways of Perception were Cleansed’: The Dreamachine and also the Invention of Hallucinogenic Art

Undergraduate champion: Tim Davies (College College London), Parts and Work: Fabricating Jesse Judd and Carl Andre inside a Altering Industrial Context.

Postgraduate champion: Emily Doucet (College College London), Anticipating Machines Heavier than Air: Nadar, Photography and also the Objects of Technology.

Undergraduate: Benjamin Joyce (College of Leeds), Madame XXX: The Inversion of Gendered Roles and also the Apprehension from the Unattainable in Sargent’s Madame X and Georgia Pink (College of Glasgow), In Transition from Ancient Citadel to Modern Metropolis: Mapping a feeling of Place Through Edinburgh’s Liminal Landscape in Nasmyth’s Views Over The City from the 1820s.

Postgraduate: Rebecca Whiteley (UCL), Modes of Knowing: Visualising Pregnancy in Eighteenth-Century England.

Undergraduate champion: Jack Shepherdson (College of East Anglia), Dichotomies.

Postgraduate champion: Dennis Prior (College of Oxford), Architecture/Not Architecture.Perfectly into a Reconsideration of Architectural Appearance and also the Function-Reflex: Rethinking the job of Richard Serra and Peter Zumthor’.

Shortlisted:

Postgraduate: Lucy Kent (Courtauld Institute of Art), Spirituality and British Modernism: Christian Science influence within the work of Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth.

Postgraduate champion: Connor Kissane (UCL) The Violence of Representation: Imaging the Martyred Body in Santi Nereo de Achilleo

Undergraduate champion: Rachel Dedman (Oxford), The significance of Being Ernst: A Reassessment of E.H Gombrich’s Exposure to Psychoanalysis

Undergraduate: Daphna Starr (College of Leeds), Clare Winsten: Whitechapel Girl and Francois Vandame (College of Bristol), Studying Graffiti: The Appearance of Illegal Art.

Postgraduate: Rachel Graves (College of Nottingham), Breaking With Tradition? The ‘Expanded Field’ in Contemporary Photo taking Practice and Darren Clark (College of Glasgow), An Research into the Primary Aesthetic Size of Glasgow’s Riverside Museum.

Undergraduate champion: Liness Wood (College of Brighton), It’s So New Fashioned: Hille from Tradition to Modernity

Postgraduate Champion: Alison Goudie (College of Oxford), The wax portrait bust as trompe-l’oeil? A situation study of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples

Undergraduate: Elizabeth Jordan (College of Edinburgh), The Edinburgh Mirror and Imogen Wiltshire (College of Birmingham), John Bratby’s Courtyard with Washing (1956).

Postgraduate: Amy Dark night (College of Sussex), The Apparitional Girl from the Fin de Siècle Philip Wilson Steer’s female figures and also the sexuality that haunts the vacant body and Tim Satterthwaite (College of Sussex), VU magazine and also the patterns of utopian modernism.

Undergraduate champion: Matt Fountain (Christies Education)

Postgraduate champion: Stephanie Straine (College of Glasgow)