The University of Sydney provides numerous prizes for written submissions in essays, poems and plays. Each prize has different entry requirements and awards are made based on merit – some sponsored by outside organizations while some offered by the university itself. These awards aim to recognize excellence in writing early in an author’s career.
Prize winners of the Festival’s mesmeric swirl design medal will receive one handmade in Sydney by Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy from Dinosaur Designs, in addition to being eligible to claim their cash prize by providing proof of rating and bank details; any extra funds received will go back into promoting chess in Sydney.
Prizes will be determined based on an assessment by a panel of judges of the quality and impact of work submitted for consideration by Festival participants. Winners may need to present their piece before an selection panel; winning works may then be published on Festival websites or print publications.
Participants in addition to receiving prizes listed above will also be eligible for merchandise prizes, with cash awards going to the top 3 heaviest entries and commemorative certificates going out for top 6 entries.
Clare Jackson, a former Sidney student and Junior Research Fellow has won a renowned historical prize for her book on royalist ideas in late seventeenth-century Scotland. Clare studied history at Sidney before going to Trinity Hall University to pursue a PhD. Since then she has written multiple acclaimed books and was honored at SHOT’s annual meeting by being given the Sidney Edelstein Prize – awarded for outstanding technology- and culture-themed literature books.
Other SHOT prizes awarded at its national conference are the Abbot Payson Usher Prize, Sally Hacker Prize, Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize, and Eugene S. Ferguson Prize. All these awards recognize papers which demonstrate exceptional scholarship while appealing broadly across fields – non-specialists as well as scholars alike!
The Prize is intended to encourage HLS students to reflect more deeply and thoughtfully upon the practice of law, its role in society and challenges it faces in an ever-evolving world. A paper must address some aspect of legal practice in its broadest sense – for instance career development, management of law firms or institutions providing legal services, diversity or equality issues related to legal practice provisioning institutions or management, globalization impacting legal practices or comparisons between lawyers and other providers of professional services are just some topics covered by this competition.
