The LSA offers two annual awards (undergraduate and postgraduate) for leisure studies dissertations of an exemplary standard.

The prize for each winner consists of:

• £100 cash prize
  
• FREE entry (registration and on-site accommodation) at the subsequent LSA annual conference
  
• PUBLICATION of the winning dissertation in the LSA newsletter
  
• The opportunity to present the findings of the dissertation at the LSA annual conference

RULES

ASSESSMENT

TIMETABLE

PREVIOUS WINNERS

 
Submission guidelines

RULES

i)	Submissions of work of exceptional quality in any area of leisure studies may be offered.
ii)	Entries must be submitted by the dissertation supervisor or course director from the institution at which the dissertation was marked. Entries should indicate the word limit, if any, which applied to the dissertation. Entries must be countersigned by the student who carried out the work. Entries submitted direct from students will not be considered. Entries to include the home address of the student so the cash portion of the prize can be sent directly to the prize winner.
iii)	The submitting tutor / course director, or institution, must be a member in good standing of the LSA.
iv)	A maximum of three dissertations per institution will be considered.
v)	Two copies of each dissertation should be submitted to allow them to be sent to two judges at the same time. (After assessment, all dissertations will be returned to submitting tutor.)

 ASSESSMENT

i)	Each award is judged by a panel designated by the LSA Executive Committee.
ii)	Normally judges will be members of the LSA but other judges experienced in the dissertation area may be used.
iii)	Judges of any given dissertation will not be connected to the institution which submitted that dissertation
iv)	Judges are asked to mark the dissertations and rank them according to the criteria they would use in their own institution. In doing this they may consider how effectively the dissertations have used their respective word limits.
v)	Where there are two judges, rank order of dissertations by both judges will be averaged to determine the overall winner.
vi)	If ranking is not conclusive, the marks awarded to each dissertation will then be used to determine the winner between those ranked evenly.
vii)	Judges will be asked to mark a maximum of five dissertations each. If there are more than five entries, they will be divided between judges. The best dissertation marked by each judge will then be second marked, following the procedure in 5 and 6, above.
viii)	Judges are also asked to provide brief comments on each dissertation to the administrator, to provide feedback to authors [on disk or by email].
x)	The judges reserve the right, after assessment, not to award the prize in any given year.

 TIMETABLE

The deadline for submission to LSA of undergraduate or graduate student dissertations submitted during the academic year of 2006-7 is Friday 16 November, 2007. Dissertations must be received by Award Administrator Helen Pussard in December 2006. Extensions are not offered.

Tutors should notify Helen Pussard by e-mail prior to posting the candidate dissertation copies.

Please submit two bound copies of the dissertation, with the appropriate form accompanying

• The awards will be announced in the following July Newsletter.
• These dates should allow winners sufficient time to arrange to attend the July LSA conference if they so wish.
• Notification of award will be sent directly to the dissertation author and to the member of staff who submitted the dissertation.
  

  PREVIOUS WINNERS

Sue Glyptis Memorial Award (Postgraduate)

2004	Ciara Rosemary Canning, University of Sheffield: 'The Burngreave Voices Community Heritage Project -- An investigation into the needs and perceptions of local residents'.
2003	Marge Ainsley, University of Sheffield: 'Audiences in bloom? An investigation into special interest group visitors at flower power, an exhibition at the Millennium Galleries, Sheffield"
2002	Dimitris Sabalis, Loughborough University. 'Strategic Considerations for the Organisational Growth and Development of Panellinios Athletic Club'
2001	No prize awarded
2000	Claudia Cockburn, University of Southampton. 'Everybody's looking at you! Girls negotiating the 'femininity deficit' they incur in physical education'.
1999	Penny Clapp, University of Birmingham, 'Urban Tourism and City Ownership'.

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Nikki Ventris Memorial Award (Undergraduate)

2004	Josephine Boddy, Southampton Institute: 'An Investigation into Environmental Influences on Extreme Sport Participation and their Dependence on Biological Personality Traits'.
2003	Jessica Johnson, University of Wolverhampton: 'Televised Sports: The Effect of Gender on the Enjoyment of and Types of Sports Watched onTelevision'.
2002	Laura Vertier, College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth: 'The power of ritual and symbolism in the death and resurrection of a tourist region: a case study of West Devon'.
2001	Shaun Kershaw, The Chelsea School, University of Brighton. 'Leisure and Farm Diversification: a case study of The Milky Way Adventure Park, Downland Farm, Higher Clovelly, North Devon'.
2000	Nicola Elsden, De Montfort University, Bedford. 'An Exploration of the 'Ladette' in Relation to Female Football Fans'.
1999	Elizabeth Such, Loughborough University, 'Athletic, Nostalgic Dreams and Identity Politics: a media analysis of the World Championship Athletics, 1995'.