STAND ECS Prize
The Commission has 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.
The call for submissions for the 2027 Prize can be found here.
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’.