David Pidduck Award

This award is presented to a novice writer of an article published in the Journal of Perioperative Practice. If the author has not previously been published anywhere they will automatically be entered.

Eligibility 

1. The article must be published between January and December of last year.
2. Authors must be a resident of the United Kingdom.
3. In the case of multiple authors the prize will be divided accordingly.
4. A former board/trustee member or staff member of AFPP may not be nominated for the award.
5. All articles to be judged must be the original work of the author and must not have been published in any other journal. 

Judging 

Winners are selected by the review panel of the Journal of Perioperative Practice.

Each judge will mark individually. 

In order to select the winner each review panel member is asked to choose what they consider to be the best three articles written by a novice author from the previous year’s volume of the JPP and rank them with a numerical score (1-3). When all the review panel members' choices are totalled then there is usually a clear winner. The award will be presented at AfPP2011 on Wednesday 19 October.

Award details