The Independent Social Research Foundation and the Cambridge Journal of Economics launched the 2022 ISRF Essay Prize in Economics in the spring of 2021. Following consideration of submissions, no essay was judged prizeworthy, and no award was made.
The Independent Social Research Foundation and the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour awarded the 2020 ISRF Essay Prize in Social Theory to Dr Doron Shultziner (Hadassah Academic College Jerusalem) & Dr Sarah Goldberg (Technion Israel Institute of Technology) for their essay The Stages of Mass Mobilization: Separate Phenomena and Distinct Causal Mechanisms.
The Independent Social Research Foundation launched the 2019 ISRF Essay Prize in Interdisciplinarity in the summer of 2018. Following consideration of submissions, no essay was judged prizeworthy, and no award was made.
The Independent Social Research Foundation and the Cambridge Journal of Economics launched the 2018 ISRF Essay Prize in Economics in the spring of 2017. Following consideration of submissions, no essay was judged prizeworthy, and no award was made.
The Independent Social Research Foundation and the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour awarded the 2017 ISRF Essay Prize in Social Theory to Dr Dominic Holland (Nottingham Trent University) for his essay The Nature of the Political Reconsidered.
The Independent Social Research Foundation and Organization Studies awarded the 2016 ISRF Essay Prize in Organisation Studies to Simon Stevens (Loughborough University) for his essay Life and Letting Die: A story of the homeless, autonomy, and anti-social behaviour.
The Independent Social Research Foundation and the Cambridge Journal of Economics awarded the 2015 ISRF Essay Prize in Economics to Professor Julie A. Nelson (University of Massachusetts, Boston) for her essay Husbandry: A (Feminist) Reclamation of Masculine Responsibility for Care.
The Independent Social Research Foundation and the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour awarded the 2014 ISRF Essay Prize in Social Theory to Professor Kenneth J Gergen (Swarthmore College) for his essay From Mirroring to World-Making: Research as Future Forming.