UCL Graduate School Review Competition 2009/2010

Competition Guidelines

Competition Winners with Professor Stephen Hart

The review shall ideally take the form of a review of publishable quality which evaluates an academic book focussing on a subject or issue in the arts and humanities, or laws, or the social and historical sciences; or which evaluates a work of art; or a literary work; or an exhibition; or a film; or a TV programme; or a cultural event. Alternatively the review may take the form of a literature review designed for a non-specialised audience which outlines the current state of play in a clearly defined intellectual field of inquiry. Publishable here is understood to mean 'worthy of publication in a major academic journal or a magazine or a review or a newspaper'. The following types of review are eligible: (a) unpublished, (b) in press, or (c) already published.

This competition was conceived as complementary to the Graduate School Poster Competition and was open to UCL graduate research students currently enrolled in the following faculties:

• – Arts & Humanities
• – Laws
• – Social & Historical Sciences

All reviews submitted by the deadline were assessed by a panel composed of UCL academics and postgraduate students. Each review was judged on its intellectual merits rather than on whether or not it had been published.

The Graduate School would like to thank the following who acted as judges:

• Professor Stephen Hart, Vice-Head, Graduate School and Dept of Spanish & Latin American Studies (Chair)
• Professor Nicola Miller, Dept of History
• Ms Yi Ling Huang, PhD student, Dept of English Language & Literature, Editor Elect, Opticon 1826
• Ms Christine Lai, PhD student, Dept of English Language & Literature, Editor of Opticon 1826