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NMA Student Prize 2010

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

NotebookThe National Museum of Australia and the Australian Academy of Science through its National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science invite submissions for the

National Museum of Australia Student Prize for the History of Australian Science or Environmental History 2010


The Prize will be a certificate and $2,500

Closing date for submissions 26 February 2010.

The prize will be awarded for an essay based on original unpublished research undertaken whilst enrolled as a student (postgraduate or undergraduate) at any tertiary educational institution in the world.

The essay should be 4,000 – 8,000 words in length (exclusive of endnotes). Essays must be written in English and fully documented following the style specified for the Australian Academy of Science’s journal, Historical Records of Australian Science (see HRAS Author Guidelines for details).

Essays may deal with any aspect of the History of Australian Science (including medicine and technology) or Australian Environmental History. ‘Australia’ can include essays that focus on the Australian region, broadly defined, including Oceania. Essays that compare issues and subjects associated with Australia with those of other places are also welcomed. The winning entry, if it is in a suitable subject area, may be considered for publication in Historical Records of Australian Science.

The judging panel will have three members:

  • Chair (or nominee), National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science (Chair of panel).
  • Editor (or nominee), Historical Records of Australian Science.
  • Director of Research (or nominee), National Museum of Australia.

In the e-mail covering your essay you should indicate:
Full name
Contact details (postal and e-mail addresses and telephone number)
Title of submission
University course (and year of course if undergraduate)
Student number

Your submission must be accompanied by a letter or e-mail from your academic supervisor attesting that the essay meets the eligibility criterion set out above.

Please send your submission electronically in WORD or PDF format to Connie Berridge, National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science, Australian Academy of Science, connie.berridge@science.org.au

Judges’ decisions are final. The judges retain the right to split the prize, or not to award it. The winner will be contacted by mail and/or e-mail, and will be announced on the websites of the National Museum of Australia and the Australian Academy of Science in June 2010.

Closing date for submissions Friday 26 February 2010.

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Boom and Bust wins Whitley Medal

Friday, September 25th, 2009
Boom and Bust cover

Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN: 9780643096066.

Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country, edited by Libby Robin, Rob Heinsohn and Leo Joseph, has won the Whitley Medal, the nation’s most prestigious award for zoological publication. The editors received the Whitley Medal and Certificates on behalf of all the contributors at a special Whitley Awards ceremony at the Australian Museum in Sydney on the evening of Friday 18 September.

In Boom and Bust the authors draw on the natural history of Australia’s charismatic birds to explore the relations between fauna, people and environment. They consider changing ideas about deserts and how these have helped to understand birds and their behaviour in this driest of continents.

Named after Gilbert Whitley, an eminent Australian ichthyologist, the Whitley Medal is the highest ranked of the Whitley Awards presented by the Society and is reserved for work of outstanding quality that makes a landmark contribution to zoological knowledge.

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Bushfire essay wins award, prize money boosts bushfire research project

Friday, September 4th, 2009
Bushfires

Bushfire-ravaged countryside in Steels Creek, near Kinglake. Photo: Simon Mossman, AAP Image. Source: Inside Story.

Professor Tom Griffiths, whose essay ‘We have still not lived long enough’ won the Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, said he will donate the $15,000 prize money to a research project that’s helping communities recovering from the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria to record their stories.

“It’s important that this prize money go back to help the fire-affected communities,” Griffiths said. “The most appropriate way that I can do this is to donate it to the collaborative community fire history project that we launched at ANU in the immediate aftermath of Black Saturday in partnership with researchers from the National Museum of Australia.

“Recovering communities need not only food, shelter and infrastructure; they also need a sense of identity, continuity and hope – that’s what we’re helping to achieve.”

The collaborative community fire history project is being administered by the ANU Endowment Fund and was seeded by $20,000 in funding from ANU, an amount matched by the David Thomas Foundation.

The essay is an analysis of the Victorian bushfires and the deep ecological and historical patterns that gave rise to the event. It was originally published in Inside Story in February.

Full news story: http://news.anu.edu.au/?p=1592

Judge’s citation

‘We Have Still Not Lived Long Enough’ by Tom Griffiths (published by ‘Inside Story’, February 2009)

Written in the immediate aftermath of the 2009 Victorian fires (first published 16 February), this lucid, elegant essay responds intelligently and with compassion to the tragedy. In economical and engaging prose, Griffiths brings fine scholarship to bear on our human relationship to a very particular physical landscape, while also deftly locating the Victorian fires in their historical, environmental, climatic and geographic context. Ever dispassionate, Griffiths is able to draw clear policy lessons without acrimony or finger pointing. This is the essay all Australians should read if they wish to understand a particular catastrophe, learn about the precedents, and grasp both the particular circumstances of one Australian region and the general environmental responsibilities of all citizens.

For full details, see http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/literary/pla/adprize/shortlist_winner_2009.html

Read the essay at Inside Story: We Have Still Not Lived Long Enough

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Bushfire essay short-listed for Alfred Deakin Award

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Bushfires

Bushfire-ravaged countryside in Steels Creek, near Kinglake. Photo: Simon Mossman, AAP Image. Source: Inside Story.

Tom Griffiths’ essay on the Victorian bushfires, ‘We have still not lived long enough’, has been short-listed for the Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate, and described as ‘the essay all Australians should read’. Griffiths’ research on Victorian fire history has been supported this year by the Thomas Foundation and a special grant from the ANU Vice-Chancellor, which has enabled the development of a collaborative project involving the ANU, the National Museum of Australia and fire-affected communities.

The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate is offered for a published essay by an Australian author that contributes to the national debate by the quality of its writing. The essay can be published in a print or electronic journal, newspaper or book form.

Judge’s citation

‘We Have Still Not Lived Long Enough’ by Tom Griffiths (published by ‘Inside Story’, February 2009)

Written in the immediate aftermath of the 2009 Victorian fires (first published 16 February), this lucid, elegant essay responds intelligently and with compassion to the tragedy. In economical and engaging prose, Griffiths brings fine scholarship to bear on our human relationship to a very particular physical landscape, while also deftly locating the Victorian fires in their historical, environmental, climatic and geographic context. Ever dispassionate, Griffiths is able to draw clear policy lessons without acrimony or finger pointing. This is the essay all Australians should read if they wish to understand a particular catastrophe, learn about the precedents, and grasp both the particular circumstances of one Australian region and the general environmental responsibilities of all citizens.

For full details, see http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/literary/pla/adprize/shortlist_winner_2009.html

Read the essay at Inside Story: We Have Still Not Lived Long Enough

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