Leverhulme Medal (British Academy)

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The Leverhulme Medal and Prize is awarded by the British Academy every three years 'for a significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in a field within the humanities and social sciences'. It was first awarded in 2002 and is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.{{cite web|title=Leverhulme Medal and Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/about/medals/Leverhulme_Medal.cfm|publisher=British Academy|accessdate=20 June 2014}}

List of recipients

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Year

!Name

!Field

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2002

|Sir Ernst Gombrich and Sir Raymond Firth

|Art History (Gombrich), Anthropology and Ethnology (Firth)

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2005

|Sir Tony Wrigley

|Geography

|{{cite web|title=Leverhulme Medal and Prize 2005 |url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/about/medals/Leverhulme_Medal_2005.cfm |website=Prizes and Medals |publisher=British Academy |accessdate=20 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920163145/http://www.britac.ac.uk/about/medals/Leverhulme_Medal_2005.cfm |archivedate=20 September 2015 }}

2009

|Sebastian Brock

|Aramaic language

|{{cite web|title=Leverhulme Medal and Prize 2009|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/about/medals/Leverhulme_Medal_2009.cfm|website=Prizes and Medals|publisher=British Academy|accessdate=20 June 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304193506/http://www.britac.ac.uk/about/medals/Leverhulme_Medal_2009.cfm|archivedate=4 March 2016}}

2012

|Dame Marilyn Strathern

|Anthropology

|{{cite web|title=Leverhulme Medal and Prize 2012|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/about/medals/Leverhulme_Medal_2012.cfm|website=Prizes and Medals|publisher=British Academy|accessdate=20 June 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714123132/http://www.britac.ac.uk/about/medals/Leverhulme_Medal_2012.cfm|archivedate=14 July 2014}}

2015

|Sir Richard J. Evans

|Modern German History

|{{cite web|title=British Academy announces 2015 prize and medal winners|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/press-release/british-academy-announces-2015-prize-and-medal-winners|website=British Academy|accessdate=22 June 2017|date=29 September 2015}}

2018

|Professor David W. Harvey, FBA

|"For demonstrating the importance of the social sciences in understanding the modern complexities of capitalism, urbanism and questions of social justice."

|[https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/journalists-prehistorians-economists-honoured-british-academy-prizes-medals "Award-winning journalists, prehistorians and world-leading economists honoured with prestigious British Academy prizes and medals"], The British Academy, 20 August 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.

2021

|Professor Catherine Hall, FBA

|"In recognition of Professor Hall’s impact across modern and contemporary British history, particularly in the fields of class, gender, empire and postcolonial history"

|{{cite web|title=UCL professor recognised for ground-breaking work on legacies of British slavery|website=UCL|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/sep/ucl-professor-recognised-ground-breaking-work-legacies-british-slavery|date=2 September 2021}}

2024

|Charles Hulme and Maggie Snowling

|"for their complementary contributions to understanding childhood learning development, particularly dyslexia and developmental language disorders"

|{{Cite web |date=2024-10-14 |title=2024 Leverhulme Medal and Prize announced |url=https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2024-leverhulme-medal-and-prize-announced |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241214174242/https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2024-leverhulme-medal-and-prize-announced |archive-date=2024-12-14 |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=Leverhulme Trust}}

See also

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