Professor T. M. Devine, Chair of The British Scholar Society’s Advisory Board, is the recipient of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Beltane Senior Prize for Public Engagement 2012. The award, according to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, is “to recognise and promote excellence in public engagement with research; fostering a culture in which researchers consider good communication an integral part of their work.” On winning the award, Professor Devine stated that “I am deeply honoured to be awarded this prestigious prize in the vital field of public engagement in which so much brilliant work is now being done in the universities to the huge intellectual and cultural benefit of Scottish society”.
You may find more information about the Beltane Prize by visiting the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s website at http://www.rse.org.uk/667_RSEBeltanePrizesforPublicEngagement.html. This webpage also includes an interesting “Getting to know the winners” segment about Professor Devine.
