British Academy Medal


The British Academy Medal is awarded annually by the British Academy to up to three individuals or groups. It is awarded for "outstanding achievement that has transformed understanding of a particular subject or field of study in... any branch of the humanities and social sciences". It was first awarded in 2013. It is the first medal awarded by the British Academy for any subject within the remit of the academy. According to a reputation survey conducted in 2018, it is the third most prestigious interdisciplinary award in the social sciences, after the Holberg Prize and the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. The British Academy medal is no longer being awarded since 2019.

List of recipients

2013

Three people were awarded the British Academy Medal in 2013.

2014

Three people were awarded the British Academy Medal in 2014.

2015

Three people were awarded the British Academy Medal in 2015.

2016

Three people were awarded the British Academy Medal in 2016.

2017

On 27 September 2017, three individuals were awarded the British Academy Medal:

2018

On 20 August 2018, three individuals were awarded the British Academy Medal:

2019

In 2019, one individual was awarded the British Academy Medal:
  • Professor Naomi Oreskes, for Merchants of Doubt and The Collapse of Western Civilization, and for her commitment to documenting the role of corporations in distorting scientific findings for political ends