The Hugh Martin Weir Prize – applications open for 2017

The Barr Smith Library is pleased to invite applications for the 2017 Hugh Martin Weir Prize.

The Prize is to honour the memory of Lieutenant Hugh Martin Weir (1915 – 2004) and his fellow prisoners of war. Hugh was a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Java for three and a half years between 1942 and 1945.

The purpose of the prize is to encourage study and research, including use of the Barr Smith Library collections, into any aspect of Australia’s involvement in war, or the treatment of prisoners of war in any conflict, including the impact on those persons involved, their families, and/or their communities.

The Prize is open to University of Adelaide students in an Honours thesis program or a postgraduate program by coursework or by research, either commencing or already in progress. Postdoctoral researchers are eligible to apply within three years of a doctoral award. The Prize will award up to $1,000 annually which may be put towards the costs of travel and accommodation, books, printing, inter-library loans, copying and publication or other agreed purposes identified in the candidate’s application to support the research.

Applications opened on the 1st of October 2016 and will close on 27 February 2017.

For more information and details on how to apply, please see the prizes & fellowships page.