College of Optometrists

Research Excellence Awards

These Awards recognise achievement and celebrate outstanding contributions to research in the fields of optometry, optics and vision science. All Award winners to date will be listed on the individual Award page. 
 

The Research Excellence Awards 2013 are now open.  Nomination and application forms can be downloaded here

The closing date for submissions is Friday 19 July 2013.

 

• The President’s Research Medal - inaugural award 2013 (nomination only)

  This award is for outstanding contribution to research and recognises a lifetime's career in optometric/vision science research.  The medal will be awarded every four years and has a bursary of £10,000.

• The Neil Charman Medal for Research (nomination or application)
  The College's annual Award for outstanding research by a College member, the Medal is to honour excellent research at a level above postgraduate and comes with a bursary of £1,000.

• The George Giles Postgraduate Research Prize (nomination or application)
  For outstanding postgraduate research by College members, we welcome nominations or applications from all PhD or Masters research projects. The Prize includes a bursary of £500.

• The Philip Cole Prize (nomination or application)
  For excellence in practice-based research by College members, this Prize is to honour the important contribution that practising optometrists continue to make to the optometric evidence base. The Prize includes a bursary of £500.

• The Giles Van Colle Memorial Award for Paediatric Optometry, awarded in conjunction with the Giles Van Colle Memorial Foundation (nomination or application)
  This award is for outstanding research or clinical case work relating to paediatric optometry.

  The College also awards the following Research Excellence Awards, which are not currently available for nomination or application:

• The Arthur Bennet Prize
  For outstanding research, this biennial award is to recognise work that has had a significant impact on research and scientific knowledge or on clinical practice in optometry and related fields of eye and vision care.
   
• The Bernard Gilmartin OPO Award (chosen by the OPO Editorial Board)
  This Award is given annually to the most highly regarded paper published in Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics in the preceding five years.

 

If you have any questions please contact Martin Cordiner by email or on 020 7766 4346.