Leverhulme Medal (British Academy)

The Leverhulme Medal and Prize is awarded by the British Academy every three years 'for a significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in a field within the humanities and social sciences'. It was first awarded in 2002 and is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.^[1]

List of recipients

Year	Name	Field	Notes
2002	Sir Ernst Gombrich and Sir Raymond Firth	Art History (Gombrich), Anthropology and Ethnology (Firth)	[1]
2005	Sir Tony Wrigley	Geography	[2]
2009	Sebastian Brock	Aramaic language	[3]
2012	Dame Marilyn Strathern	Anthropology	[4]
2015	Sir Richard J. Evans	Modern German History	[5]
2018	Professor David W. Harvey, FBA	"For demonstrating the importance of the social sciences in understanding the modern complexities of capitalism, urbanism and questions of social justice."	[6]
2021	Professor Catherine Hall, FBA	"In recognition of Professor Hall’s impact across modern and contemporary British history, particularly in the fields of class, gender, empire and postcolonial history"	[7]
2024	Charles Hulme and Maggie Snowling	"for their complementary contributions to understanding childhood learning development, particularly dyslexia and developmental language disorders"	[8]

See also

• Awards of the British Academy
• List of social sciences awards