The Ladislav Holy Memorial Trust Fieldwork Photography Award is to be awarded on a competitive basis each year to three postgraduate post-fieldwork students in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. Applicants are asked to submit a photographic composition based on their thesis (technical details noted below). This should be an original piece of work relating to the fieldwork during the period of doctoral research conducted by the applicant while registered as a student in the Department.
The photographic composition should include photographs, a title, the name of the student, and a text of no more than 200 words in total (this can be a unified text or several captions) and may also include other visual images. The composition should measure 51cm (width) x 76cm (height) and may be in colour or Black & White.
The photographic composition should be accompanied by a 500-word abstract of the thesis and a 500-word discussion of the images included in the composition to contextualise the submission in the context of the thesis.
The application also needs to contain a statement that informed consent has been granted by those pictured in the photograph.
Students eligible to apply are those who are registered for a Ph.D. in the St Andrews Social Anthropology Department and who have yet to sit their viva voce doctoral examination. After their viva examination they will be ineligible to apply. In any one year, students may submit only one piece of work each for consideration by the committee. The piece must not have received feedback through a peer-review process by the time of submission, and applicants need to declare this in their application email.
Students will be allowed to enter in consecutive years if they are unsuccessful in their first application. A successful candidate may not apply for the award again in the following year or subsequent years.
The deadline for submissions to pafsresearch@st-andrews.ac.uk is 4pm 8th December 2025. Those students who wish to apply for the award, but whose viva voce examination will take place before that date, should email their application to pgpafs@st-andrews.ac.uk prior to their viva. Such applications will be held over until the deadline, to be considered alongside any other applications submitted for the same round of the competition.
The award takes the form of a book token for each winner.
The photographic compositions of the three winners will be displayed in the PhD research display panels by School V.
For further details please contact Professor Roy Dilley, Chair of Trustees, (rmd(at)st-andrews(dot)ac(dot)uk
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