BGA Medal
The British Geotechnical Association Medal (and certificate) is awarded annually (calendar year) to the best paper published in an international journal authored/co-authored by member(s) of the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) and submitted for consideration of the award. The following rules and procedures apply:
- Papers must be submitted to the BGA for consideration. There will be no automatic short listing of papers from selected journals as was the case for the former BGA Prize.
- To be eligible for consideration submitted papers must have been published in the calendar year of the award.
- Only authors/co-authors who are members of the BGA in the year of the award can submit papers for consideration.
- Only one submission from a set of BGA authors/co-authors is allowed. This does not preclude a single author appearing on more than one submission if his BGA co-authors are different.
- For papers with a combination of BGA and non-BGA co-authors a short statement, signed by at least one of the non-BGA co-authors, outlining the contribution made by the BGA co-authors must accompany the submitted paper.
- The papers will be judged by a sub-group of the BGA committee. They will give recommendations to the full committee who will then make the final decision.
- If the BGA committee is of the opinion that none of the papers submitted is worthy of the Medal no award will be made.
- The medal will be awarded at the annual general meeting of the BGA in the following year.
Papers for consideration for the calendar year 2011 award should be submitted to Shelagh Fleming at Shelagh.fleming@ice.org.uk no later than the 31st January 2012 in electronic (.pdf) format.
