Student Prize
Announcing the 2024 Student Competition: 'The History of LGBTQ+ Medicine'
We are proud to launch our 2024 Student Competition, inviting all UK medicine and dentistry students to present a piece of writing on the subject of 'The History of LGBTQ+ Medicine'. This offers students a unique opportunity to explore an area of healthcare often neglected in curricula and express their creative skills. GLADD is proud to be working with two esteemed colleagues as our guest judges: Adam Kay and Zoë Playdon.
Guest Judges
Image courtesy of Charlie Clift
Adam Kay is an author, comedian and former doctor. He studied at Imperial College London, graduating in 2004, and worked as a registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology before leaving medicine to pursue a career in literature. His first book This Is Going To Hurt was a number one bestseller in the UK for over a year and has been adapted into a critically acclaimed BBC TV series. Kay is openly gay and married to James, a television producer.
Professor Zoë Playdon is the Emeritus Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of London and for 21 years was Professor and Head of Education at NHS Kent, Surrey and Sussex regional postgraduate medical Deanery. Her recent account of UK trans experience, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes, won a Stonewall US Honor Award and is currently being adapted into a TV mini-series. A former co-chair of GLADD, Zoë co-founded the Parliamentary Forum on Gender Identity with Dr Lynne Jones MP in 1994. In 1996 she defeated the UK government in the European Court of Justice, restoring trans employment rights and providing a precedent has been extended to gay men and lesbians. She continues to write for prestigious publications, speaks internationally at conferences, lectures, in media interviews, and has advised top government departments.
Prizes
1st place: £250 cash prize and consideration for publication
2nd prize: £100 cash prize
3rd prize: £50 cash prize
All entrants will receive free 1 year GLADD memberships and a certificate of participation.
Participant Guidelines:
- The competition is open to all medical & dental students attending UK universities. You do not have to be a GLADD member to enter.
- Entries may be of any arts and humanities format, excluding academic essays. The format chosen is up to you, and may encompass a wide variety of options, including but not limited to short stories, poems, plays, or whatever creative idea you have which fits the theme of the competition.
- Entries can be of any length within reason. As a guide, we suggest a limit of 2000 words but recognise that this may not be suitable for all forms of entries, and entry lengths are dependent on the chosen formats of pieces. If a chosen format necessitates a higher word count, you are welcome to email students@gladd.co.uk for advice.
- If a submission requires explanatory material this will be welcome but is not required and may not be considered in the judging process. Explanatory material must be under 500 words.
- Submissions are accepted online only. We recommend scans, photos, or videos if physical items have been made.
- If entering a written submission, please use Times New Roman size 10 with 1.5 line spacing for the main body.
- The deadline for submissions will be 21st October 2024 at 12:00pm. Submissions entered after this time will not be accepted.
- See here for full Terms and Conditions of entry.
Enter the competition:
To enter, complete the registration form then email your submission as an attatchment to students@gladd.co.uk. Please note that there is a file size limit of 30MB. If your file is larger, please ask to use WeTransfer.
The GLADD student prize was first launched in 2022. Read about the inaugural prize here: