RIBA has revealed the judges for this year’s President’s Awards for Research.
The judging panel will bring together a whole host of experts in academia and practice and will be chaired by Peter Clegg, Senior Partner at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.
The other judges are: Professor Christopher Platt, Dr Aylin Orbasli, Professor Robert Mull, Hattie Hartman, Amica Dall and Shumi Bose.
The new awards programme will give the chance for academics and practice-based researchers across all levels to go in for four new categories representing the clusters of active research in the built environment.
These categories will include history and theory, design and technical, cities and community, as well as learning from projects which is a special category which recognises the increasing importance of building performance evaluation and post occupancy.
Candidates are requested to submit 5,000 to 10,000 words of unpublished research, including sections from previous work or extended projects.
All material that is shortlisted for nomination will be published on architecture.com and also in a peer-reviewed journal, while the deadline for entries in June 30 2016 at 11.55pm (BST).
A maximum of three submissions are allowed for each category, with the short lists set to be confirmed in July and the winners to be confirmed in December at the President’s Medals ceremony.
There will be one award per category, before the strongest submission of all the entries receives the President’s Medal for Research.
RIBA’s Head of Research and Innovation, Dr Kat Martindale, said that the new awards programme, specifically the four categories that have just been introduced, have been purposely designed to give practitioners a better platform to display their research.
Dr Martindale added that the aim of the new approach is to strengthen the links between academia and practice, while capturing the existing research activity.
She also expressed her delight that such a highly-regarded panel will be judging the contributions made by the entrants.
