STAND ECS Prize
The Commission has also created an annual early career scholars prize, recognising outstanding papers addressing the history of science, technology and medicine in their international contexts. This award aims to provide support and recognition for fresh voices in the field.
Topics might include, but are not limited to: science diplomacy, international cooperation in fields related to science, technology or medicine, and the transnational circulation of technoscientific and medical knowledge, materials, and expertise. The award aims to provide support and recognition for fresh voices in the field.
Candidates must have recently been awarded a PhD (within the previous 8 years) or must be enrolled in a PhD program. We particularly encourage submissions from groups and regions underrepresented in the aforementioned research themes/areas.
2026 STAND ECS Prize
The award consists of a cash prize of 500 EUR and comes with the chance to present the winning paper at a virtual seminar. The award winner will be announced on Spring 2026. The prize committee of the Commission will consider in their reflection on entries the following: academic quality, methodological innovation, clarity in expression, and the integration of novel historical perspectives on science, technology, and medicine in their interplay with diplomatic history and the history of international relations.
Submissions should be in the form of an essay of 7,000 to 10,000 words (including citations and references). Entries should be of work not previously published. Manuscripts would be assessed in English. Those submitted in other languages are eligible for consideration; however, they must be either accompanied by an English translation or will be assessed based on a translation generated by automated translation software. For reasons of efficiency and to avoid potential translation-related issues, the use of English is therefore strongly advised.
Deadline for submission is Friday 12 December 2025.
For all early career scholars interested in entering the prize competition, please send your submissions to STAND[at]manchester[dot]ac[dot]uk.
Past Winners
The 2025 prize has been awarded to Dr Ezequiel Sosiuk for the paper ‘Diplomatic Concepts: Origins and Consequences of the United States-Brazil Shrimp Conservation Agreement (1972-1977)’. Dr Sosiuk is researcher at the Center for Science, Technology and Society, Maimonides University, Argentina, and CONICET. Further details and honourable mention can be found here.
In 2024, the prize was awarded to by Jiya Pandya, who is competing a doctorate at Princeton University in the Department of History and Program in Gender & Sexuality Studies, for the paper ‘Disability as Geopolitics: India, the UN, and Transnational Welfare’. Further details and honourable mentions can be found here.
In 2023, the prize was awarded to Dr Alma Igra, postdoctoral fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel, for her paper entitled ‘British Scientific Humanitarianism in Vienna: Milk and Standards in Exchange’. Further details about the 2023 Prize Winner and honourable mentions can be found here.
The inaugural award was announced in March 2022, recognising Dr Pete Millwood for his paper ‘A Source of Vernacular Knowledge or a Final Frontier for Globalized Science? American and Chinese Discourses on Science in the People’s Republic of China, 1971–1978’.
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