Deadline: 4 June 2024
The call for nominations for the 2025 RIA Gold Medal in the Humanities and the 2025 RIA Gold Medal in the Life and Medical Sciences is now open.
The 2025 RIA Gold Medals are sponsored by AIB.
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- 2025 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals in the Humanities
- In 2025, the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) will present the RIA Gold Medal in the Humanities to an individual who has made a demonstrable and internationally recognised, outstanding scholarly contribution to the Humanities (Archaeology, Classics, English, History, Irish Language, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Musicology, Philosophy and other cognate or related areas).
- Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Life and Medical Sciences
- In 2025, the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) will present the RIA Gold Medal in the Life and Medical Sciences to an individual who has made a demonstrable and internationally recognised, outstanding scholarly contribution to the Life and Medical Sciences.
Eligibility
- Eligibility for candidature is restricted to persons who are usually resident in Ireland.
- Candidates must be currently making a distinguished, demonstrable, and internationally recognised scholarly contribution to their field.
- The work underpinning this scholarly contribution will have been undertaken while candidates have been working in Ireland.
- Candidates are expected to be research active at the time of nomination.
- Please note: serving Officers of the Royal Irish Academy are not eligible for candidature.
Who can nominate?
A proposer and a seconder are required. Either the proposer or the seconder must be a:
- Member of the Royal Irish Academy, or
- Honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy, or
- Current member of a RIA Multidisciplinary Committee, or
- Head of an institution designated under the Higher Education Act (2022) or a Higher Education Institution based in Northern Ireland.
- Please note: serving Officers of the Royal Irish Academy are not eligible to nominate.
For more information, visit Royal Irish Academy (RIA).
