RIBA President's Awards for Research
The RIBA is now welcoming nominations for the 2012 President's Awards for Research. The submission deadline is Monday 14 May 2012 at 5pm.
This awards scheme was established in order to reward and encourage outstanding research in architecture carried out by students, academics and practitioners.
The awards promote and champion high-quality research and encourage its dissemination and incorporation into the knowledge base of the profession. They contribute to raising the profile of architects and academics engaged in research, and raise awareness of the need for research across the profession to foster innovation and strategic thinking.
The awards are given in four categories: Master's, PhD, university and practice-located research.
Download the Call for entries PDF (below) for further information. If you have any queries about the awards, please email research@riba.org or call 020 7307 3714.
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Winners 2011
The following pieces of research are the winners of the RIBA President's Awards for Research 2011:
RIBA President's Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis
- Milinda Pathiraja of the University of Melbourne: The function of robust technology in the construction of a 'third world' practice: architecture, design and labour training
RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University-located Research
- Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till of the Universities of Sheffield and Westminster: Spatial Agency
Commendations for University-located Research
- Brian Ford of the University of Nottingham: Passive and Hybrid Downdraft Cooling (PHDC)
- Jane Rendell of the Bartlett School of Architecture: Site - Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism
RIBA President's Award for Outstanding Practice-located Research
- Chris Halligan and Joanne Denison of Stephen George & Partners: Building Materials and the Environment
Commendation for Practice-located Research
- Indy Johar, Joost Beunderman, Timothy Ahrensbach, Joni Steiner and Alice Fung of Architecture 00:/: Compendium for the Civic Economy
Shortlist 2011
The following pieces of research were shortlisted:
RIBA President's Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis
- Nishat Awan of the University of Sheffield: Diasporic Urbanism: Concepts, agencies and 'mapping otherwise'
- Tania Sengupta of the University of Westminster: Producing the Province: Colonial governance and spatial cultures in district headquarter towns in Eastern India
- Doreen Bernath of the Architectural Association: China and Pictorial Introjection
- Milinda Pathiraja of the University of Melbourne: The function of robust technology in the construction of a 'third world' practice: architecture, design and labour training
RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University-located Research
- Brian Ford of the University of Nottingham: Passive and Hybrid Downdraft Cooling (PHDC)
- Jane Rendell of the Bartlett School of Architecture: Site - Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism
- Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till of the Universities of Sheffield and Westminster: Spatial Agency
- Patricia Belford and Ruth Morrow of Queen's University Belfast: Tactility Factory/Girli Concrete
- Marcial Echenique of the University of Cambridge: SOLUTIONS (Sustainability Of Land Use in Outer Neighbourhoods)
RIBA President's Award for Outstanding Practice-located Research
- James Soane of Project Orange: PO Box
- Chris Halligan and Joanne Denison of Stephen George & Partners: Building Materials and the Environment
- Indy Johar, Joost Beunderman, Timothy Ahrensbach, Joni Steiner and Alice Fung of Architecture 00:/: Compendium for the Civic Economy
- Xavier De Kestelier of Foster + Partners with Richard Buswell and Simon Austin of Loughborough University: Freeform Construction: Mega-Scale Rapid Manufacturing for Construction
About the President's Awards for Research
These slides from the 2010 Guerrilla Tactics CPD day provide some useful information about practice-based research:
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Conflict of interest procedures
Judges declare their conflicts of interest as soon as the list of awards' candidates is circulated.
Judges are required to leave the room during the assessment of work where there is a conflict of interest.
Judges must not provide supporting statements for submissions to the RIBA President's Awards for Research.
Judges cannot make submissions for the RIBA President's Awards for Research.
At each stage of assessment the relevant materials are inspected by at least two impartial judges.
Where the Chair is involved in a conflict of interest, another member of the judging panel acts as Deputy Chair.
Cases of conflict of interest arise:
- For PhD Award: where the judge has been involved in the supervision of and/or examination of the PhD.
- For University-located Awards: where the judge has been involved as a member of the research team.
- For Professional Practice-located Awards: where the judge has been involved in any way in the research project submitted.
The following circumstances will be considered on a case-by-case basis, depending on the level of involvement or familiarity with the research:
- For the PhD and University-located Research Awards: where the submission is from the higher education institute in which the judge is currently, or has recently been, or will soon be, a member of staff (this is usually considered a conflict of interest).
- For the University-located Research Awards: where the judge has been a nominated peer reviewer of the research submission for a research council or related body.
- For Professional Practice-located Research Awards: where the judge has a business connection with the submitting practice (this is usually considered a conflict of interest).
- For any of the three awards: where a professional or personal relationship may impede the judge's impartiality (this is usually considered a conflict of interest).
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