The IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award closes on 30 September this year, so if you have submitted relevant coursework on a UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate, whether ‘written, designed or made’ – over the two years to 31 July 2024, simply forward it online to us and see if you can win £500 cash, to be presented at our Annual School in Shrewsbury in June 2025.

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For the 2024 Award, as ever, a cash prize of £500 is on offer to the winner, with smaller cash awards to commended entries. Discretionary free places at the IHBC’s Annual School, valued at around £500, are also on offer to selected entries.

Some details of the IHBC Student Awards:

• The award is presented for an outstanding item of taught-coursework accepted as part of either under-graduate or post-graduate courses ending in the academic years either to 31 July 2023 OR 31 July 2024
• Content need not be on conservation, but can relate to ANY aspect of the Built or Historic Environment, including for example, its evaluation ( history, research, investigation or recording); management ( planning, policy, finance or linked operations and tools such as site management or conservation plans), and/or intervention (g. design, technology and project plans), as well as more general practical or theoretical considers with conservation implications
• Submission for this award is ONLY possible online. If your coursework isn’t easily digitised – such as craft work – we can accept suitable digital records, such as a film record
• Any submission must be of a form that can be authenticated by the course tutor in accordance with our guidance.

See the list of past winners

Find out more about the awards and how to enter on the Gus Astley

Student Award website

See more about the history of the IHBC Gus Astley Student Awards

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Submissions Close – 1 September 2024

This 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, listing, other forms of statutory protection, and to directly inform decision making in the planning and wider heritage sphere 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 the 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 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 medallion, to be presented at the SAHGB’s Annual Awards Ceremony. Winners will also be offered a free place at the corresponding IHBC Annual School. Additionally, we may contact winning researchers to request a feature for publishing on the Society’s website or members’ magazine.

For more information visit the website here.

The Conservation Guest Scholars Program provides opportunities for established scholars or professionals who have attained distinction in the cultural heritage conservation field.

Recipients are in residence at the Getty Conservation Institute for either three or six months, in which they pursue their own projects free from work-related obligations, make use of research collections at the Getty Center and Getty Villa, and participate with other Getty scholars, fellows, and interns in the intellectual life of Getty.

Applications are welcome from researchers and practitioners of all nationalities working in conservation, historic preservation, heritage science, heritage studies, and related fields. Applicants should have at least seven years of professional experience and should have an established record of publications and other contributions to the field. Individuals from groups underrepresented across the field of cultural heritage conservation are encouraged to apply. Proposals for postdoctoral research or research that contributes to a PhD or other academic degree will not be considered.

For eligibility, terms, and how to apply, visit https://gty.art/GCIScholars. The application deadline is October 1, 2024.

For questions regarding the program or the application process, please contact: GCIScholars@getty.edu