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Inaugurated in 1996 as the Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Teaching of Psychology; renamed in 2005 as the Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Psychology; renamed in 2010 as the Award for Excellence in Psychology Education; renamed again in 2012.
This annual award of the Education and Public Engagement Board (formerly Psychology Education Board) is given to a present or past teacher of psychology at any level in recognition of an unusually significant contribution to education and training in psychology in the UK.
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in Practice
Inaugurated in 2000 as the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Professional Psychology; renamed in 2014. This annual mid-career award of the Professional Practice Board is given to a current practitioner of psychology in any area of professional applied psychology. It acknowledges unusually significant contributions to professional practice in the UK.
Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology
Inaugurated in 1997. This annual award of the Research Board is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to psychological knowledge of doctoral research published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Higher Education Teacher of the Year
First awarded 2019
Award for Promoting Equality of Opportunity
Inaugurated in 1994 as the Award for Challenging Inequality of Opportunity; renamed in 1998 as the Award for Promoting Equality of Opportunity. No awards were made from 2009 until 2013, when the award was relaunched.
From 1994 to 2008 this annual award of the Standing Committee for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities (SCPEO) was given to a member of the Society, from any field and at any point in their career, who had demonstrated a commitment to the welfare of others and had, through their practice, gone beyond what is normally expected in challenging discrimination and promoting equal treatment.
Since 2013 the award has been made by the Ethics Committee to recognise a person whose work as a psychologist (teacher, researcher or practitioner) has made a significant contribution to challenging social inequalities in the UK in relation to gender, race, ethnic origin, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability or age.
Book Award
Inaugurated 1993. This annual joint award of the Research Board and Psychology Education Board is given to the author(s) or editor(s) of a book considered either to make a significant contribution to the advancement of psychological knowledge, to expound the teaching of psychology with clarity and insight, to make psychology accessible to a wider public, or to expand the scientific bases for the practice of psychology.
Lifetime Achievement Awards
Three awards - given in recognition of outstanding personal achievements and significant contributions to the discipline of psychology in the areas of professional practice (2006-), academic psychology (2009-), and psychology education (2011-).
Practitioner of the Year Award (2011-)
Given to a Chartered Psychologist for achievements in good practice in the preceding 12 months.
Presidents' Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge
Inaugurated 1981. Given to a mid-career researcher currently engaged in research of outstanding quality in recognition of exceptional contributions to psychological knowledge.
Psychology Project Award for Schools (1982-c.1990)
Public Engagement and Media Award
Inaugurated in 2011 as Prize for Public Engagement. Renamed in 2012.
This annual award of the Education and Public Engagement Board (formerly Psychology Education Board) is given to a psychologist engaged in communicating high-quality research evidence to the general public, either directly or via a range of broadcast and print media. Until 2012 it was awarded by the Publications and Communications Board.
Spearman Medal
Inaugurated 1965 finished 2020.
This early-career (postdoctoral) annual award of the Research Board is given in recognition of outstanding published work in psychology representing a significant body of research output in terms of theoretical contributions made, originality (including innovation in methods or techniques), and impact of the findings.
Student Writing Competition sponsored by the Psychologist 2000-c. 2011
Joint BPS/ATSiP Awards for Technical Support in Psychology (2014-)
The Society works with the Association of Technical Staff in Psychology (ATSiP) to make two awards that recognise the contributions made by psychology technicians in university departments to research (2014-) and teaching (2016-)
William Inman Prize
The William Inman Prize was set up with a bequest from Dr William S. Inman, who died in 1968. The prize was to be awarded annually for the best original work on psychosomatic ophthalmology published in the (then) British Journal of Medical Psychology, or in any other journal approved by the Society.
No prize was awarded until 1993, after moves to relaunch the prize by the Scientific Affairs Board, and a statement that the field of endeavour would be interpreted widely to include 'any research on psychosomatic factors in physical illness, but especially those concerning the eye'. The prize went to K.E. LePage, D. Schafer and A. Miller for their 1992 paper in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis entitled 'Alternating unilateral lachrymation'. After 1993 there were no further winners.
In 2010 the Research Board (the successor to the Scientific Affairs Board) relaunched the prize as a quinquennial award. The criteria were widened once more to include work on 'the effects of psychological factors upon physical conditions', with preference being given to psychodynamic or psychotherapeutic factors and to conditions of the eye. The 2010 prize was subsequently awarded to Jenny Lacey for her 2009 paper in Eye, 'Barriers to adherence with glaucoma medications: A qualitative research study', of which she was lead author. On 16 February 2011, she was presented with the prize at the Research Board meeting in London.
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