PICADILLY PRIZE

The Piccadilly Prize is awarded annually to the Shaftesbury fellow who completes and presents the most outstanding research project in that year’s fellowship. The award recipient will be selected by the staff of the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy (CRCD).

Because the Piccadilly Prize is an award for excellence in scholarly research, the CRCD staff will evaluate fellows’ projects and select the most outstanding project according to the following broad academic criteria:

• Methodology: The project exempliHies the research methods and handling of sources appropriate for the topic and its Hield
• Originality: The project contributes new insights to the scholarship in its topic area and does not merely repeat or summarize previous scholarship
• Presentation: The project is presented clearly, persuasively, and winsomely both orally and in print (as applicable), as well as exhibiting academic style of speech and writing
• Promise: The project holds promise and potential for further development in the fellow’s future academic work or in the Hield more broadly

The recipient of the prize will be notiHied after the conclusion of the fellowship. Ordinarily the prize will be awarded to the recipient at a public presentation of the fellow’s research at a time and venue agreeable to the CRCD and the recipient, such as an academic conference or an event at the recipient’s home institution.