Grants, Prizes & Bursaries
The British Neuropsychological Society is proud to award a number of prizes and bursaries annually:
- The Elizabeth Warrington Prize,
- The Freda Newcombe Prize,
- Early career small research grants,
- The Humphreys & Riddoch Prize,
- The Undergraduate Prize,
- Neurosychology International Fellowships and
- Student/postgraduate bursaries to attend BNS meetings.
Details of each award and previous winners are listed below:
Congratulations to this year’s winners of the BNS early career researcher small research grant: Dr Ethan Knights, Matthew Rouse and Dr Alexandra Mitchell. Each of these ECRs will use to funds to do Neuropsychological work embedding open research practises which will further their careers. We can’t wait to hear about the results of their work next year!
The Humphreys & Riddoch prize is named in honour of Professor Glyn Humphreys (1954-2016) and Professor Jane Riddoch. This prize is awarded to postgraduate students who have a research interest in neuropsychology.
Students who wish to be considered for the prize will be asked to present their work at the Autumn BNS meeting, normally as a poster and at the data blitz session. The winner will be selected at the meeting.
Candidates should submit an abstract for the Autumn meeting when the portal opens.
The call for the 2024 prize will open in late Spring
Winners of the Humphreys & Riddoch Prize:
2023 Matthew Rouse
2022 Rebecca Roberts & Shalom Henderson
2021 Chris Byrne
2020 Veronica Diveica
2019 Emma Elliott
2018 Margaret Moore
The Undergraduate Prize is open to all UK final year undergraduates taking a single or joint honours psychology degree that is accredited by the British Psychological Society. Submissions are invited from all areas of Neuropsychology including: Clinical or cognitive neuropsychology, Brain Imaging, Clinical or Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychoneuropharmacology.
The winner will be invited to present their findings, by poster or short talk at the Autumn BNS meeting, and awarded 3 years free associate membership of the BNS.
Candidates should send a copy of their dissertation and a letter of support from their supervisor to info@the-bns.org when the call opens.
The call for the 2024 prize will open in late summer
Winners of the Undergraduate Prize:
2023 Ruby Morton
"Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the angular gyrus: The effects on the subjective re-experiencing of episodic memory"
2022 Martina Kopčanová
"Investigating EEG predictors of subjective confidence judgements across cognitive domains"
2021 Shah Moore
"The Effect of Visual Experience on Processing Word Meanings"
2020 Alicia Willoughby & Louise Schindler (joint winners)
"The Impact of Posterior Cortical Atrophy on Visual Abilities and Daily Life"
2019 Jack Miller
2018 Lauren Moore
2017 Alex Dorgham
2016 Rachael Hastie
2015 Rebekah Lisgarten
2014 Eleanor Wong & Francesca Allerton (joint winners)
2013 Melanie Jensen
2012 Ebba Du Rietz
