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De la Court Prize

The De la Court Prize recognises individuals who have produced outstanding scholarly work in the social sciences or humanities without financial reward, independently and outside the established academic institutions. The prizewinner receives a monetary award of EUR 7,500.

Submit nominations:Is opening 1 April 2027

Subject areas

Social sciences; humanities

Who can submit a nomination?

Nominations can be submitted by individual scientists and scholars, institutes in the behavioural and social sciences, law, language and literature, history, philosophy and theology, academic publishers, museums and cultural heritage organisations, and members of the Academy and The Young Academy.

Who is it for?

Scholars in the Kingdom of the Netherlands who have produced outstanding scholarly work in the social sciences or humanities independently and without financial reward.

2024 De la Court Prize

Historian and biographer Sandra Langereis has received the Royal Academy's De la Court Prize 2024 for her entire body of work. The De la Court Prize, a sum of EUR 7,500, recognises individuals who have produced scholarly work without financial reward.

Sandra Langereis has been conducting independent research beyond the confines of academia since 2012 and in that time has crafted an oeuvre of immense scope. Most notable are her biographies.

Unconventional avenues and radical choices

Sandra La
'Working as an independent researcher allows me to explore unconventional avenues and make radical choices so that I can present the results of my basic scholarly research in a sophisticated literary style to a wide readership. History affects everyone, after all. So I'm delighted that the Academy is using the De la Court Prize to highlight the social relevance of translating research in a way that benefits public debate.'
Sandra Langereis, laureate of the 2024 De la Court Prize

Laureaten

It’s important to make the results of scholarship accessible to practitioners

Portretfoto Gera ter Meulen
‘I’m particularly pleased that the Academy is using this award to underline the importance of making the results of scholarship accessible to practitioners. Scholarly scrutiny is essential, especially as regards highly emotive topics.’
Gera ter Meulen, winner of the 2022 De la Court Prize

Over de prijs

De De la Courtprijs is in 1998, als samenvoeging van de Johan de la Courtprijs en de Pieter de la Courtprijs, door de KNAW ingesteld als erkenning voor onbezoldigd onderzoek op het gebied van de sociale wetenschappen en de geesteswetenschappen. De De la Courtprijs wordt iedere twee jaar uitgereikt.

De laureaat ontvangt een geldbedrag van € 7.500 en een zilveren medaille.

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