SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2022
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2022 Joint Award
The IHBC is delighted to announce the 2022 joint Award with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) celebrating ‘the quality of architectural-historical research.. in heritage and conservation practice’ is open for submissions
Closing date
Closing for applications is August 31
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SAHGB-IHBC writes:
This new award – a joint venture between the SAHGB and IHBC – recognises and celebrates the quality of architectural-historical research produced by colleagues in heritage and conservation practice, as private consultants or on behalf of Non-Governmental Organisations, public bodies or comparable clients. Research undertaken for statements of significance, conservation management plans, and listing and other forms of statutory protection makes a significant, but all too often under-recognised contribution to the discipline and indeed to the quality of the historic environment. Moreover, methodological reflection on this work, and on heritage and preservationism more widely, adds much to practice of architectural history. Our Heritage Research Award will provide an opportunity to understand better the diversity of this work, celebrate the very best of the research that goes into it, and provide an opportunity to make it better known to other professionals and the public.
The Award celebrates research and critical reflection. It excludes specifically consideration, assessment or endorsement of any plans, projects, sites, advocacy or arbitration etc. linked in ANY way to the research, or the success, merits, demerits or otherwise of resulting advice, decisions or interventions. This separation between research and conservation outcomes mirrors the separation that the IHBC recognises between the advice given by an IHBC member to a client or employer and the potential decisions and outcomes that ultimately may be associated with that advice.
Winning work will receive a newly commissioned medal, to be presented at the SAHGB’s Annual Awards Ceremony. Winning work will be published on the Society’s website, and winners will be given an opportunity to present their work at an Awards Showcase event and publish a substantial summary in the Society’s magazine, subject to our standard editorial process and at the Society’s discretion. Winners will also be offered a free place at the corresponding IHBC Annual School.
Judging Panel
- Malcolm Airs (Emeritus Professor of Conservation and the Historic Environment, University of Oxford) (Chair)
- Christina Emersen (Head of Casework, Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings)
- Simon Green (Historic Environment Scotland)
- Tanvir Hasan (Deputy Chairman, Donald Insall Associates)
- Lone Le Vay (Vice Chair, Institute of Historic Building Conservation)
- Aylin Orbasli (Reader in Architectural Regeneration, Oxford Brookes University)
Further Information
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This article originally appeared on the IHBC website as 'SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2022 for ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’, closes 31/08' on August 23, 2022.
--Institute of Historic Building Conservation
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