Awards are made to assist palaeontological research (travel, visits to museums, fieldwork etc.), with each award having a maximum value of £1000. Preference is given to applications for a single purpose (rather than top ups of other grant applications) and no definite age limit is applied. The award is open to both amateur and professional palaeontologists, but preference will normally be given to members of the Association and to candidates who have not previously won an award. The awards are announced at the AGM.

Council will also consider awards in excess of £1000. Typically these would aid pilot projects with an aim of supporting future applications to national research funding bodies.

Electronic submission of applications, through the website, is preferred and will comprise a CV, an account of research aims and objectives (5000 characters maximum including references), and a breakdown of the proposed expenditure. Each application should be accompanied by the names of a personal and a scientific referee. Successful candidates must produce a report for Palaeontology Newsletter and are asked to consider the Association’s meetings and publications as media for conveying the research results.

Deadline for applications is 1st November each year.

Before applying applicants should first read the Terms and Conditions for Sylvester-Bradley Awards, which leads to the online application form.

Jenifer England (Glasgow) - Crystallography and chemistry of fossil craniid brachiopods.
Howard Falcon-Lang (Bristol) - Terrestrial palaeoecology of a Late Carboniferous intremontane basin, Czech Republic.
R. Irmis (Berkeley) - Reappraisal of the phylogeny of early dinosaurs.
Marc E. H. Jones (UCL) - Morphometric analysis of sub-fossil Sphenodon.
Tim Kearsey (Plymouth) - High-resolution palaeotemperature curve through the P/T extinction.
Claire McDonald (Leeds) - Herbivory in Chilean forests.
Daniel Oakley (Bristol) - Analysis of charred angiosperm woods from the Cenomanian of the Czech Republic: implications for early angiosperm radiation.
Robert Raine (Birmingham) - Palaeogeography of tropical domain conodont faunas from the Cambro-Ordovician of laurentia.
Leyla Seyfullah (Birmingham) - Chinese Permian Seed ferns: diversity and abundance.
Bridget Wade (Rutgers) - Taxonomic and geochemical analysis of pristine forams from Puerto Rico.