Register by Tuesday 30th November 2010
The Pioneer Health Foundation exists to disseminate the ideas of the Peckham Experiment, a unique enquiry into the nature of health that took place between 1935 – 1950.
As part of its activities, the Foundation sponsors the ‘Mary Langman Prize’; an annual award for an essay that furthers the lessons learnt at the Pioneer Health Centre about the social, emotional and environmental determinants of health.
Mary Langman was personal assistant to Dr George Scott Williamson who with Dr Innes Pearse founded the Peckham Experiment. She ran Oakley Farm at Bromley Common which produced organic food for the Experiment, and founded and ran ‘Wholefood’, the ground breaking organic shop in Baker Street, London. She worked closely with Lady Eve Balfour of the Soil Association, and was one of its founder members with George Scott Williamson and Innes Pearse. After Scott Williamson's death, she assisted Innes Pearse in the editing of his papers, put together in the book ‘Science Synthesis and Sanity’.
We believe that the Peckham Experiment, the emergent hypothesis and the findings, bring together a nexus of ideas that are beginning to be seen as central to problems facing society today.
Mary Langman made a generous bequest to the Pioneer Health Foundation and we feel it appropriate to use it in the creation of an intellectual platform and philosophical basis that is rational, ethical and inspired.
The annual Mary Langman prize will be awarded for an essay (3000 words) which shows understanding of the principles of the Peckham Experiment and their potential for current application. The award will be open to all students studying at Universities and Higher Education institutions in the U.K. The title of the essay is to be ‘The Relevance of the Peckham Experiment in the 21st Century’.
Entrants are required to register at the website their interest in entering this competition by Tuesday 30th November 2010. The deadline for essay submission will be Saturday 1st January 2011 .
Full details of the competition rules and guidelines are available on the website www.marylangmanprize.org.uk
Further information about the Peckham Experiment is available on the Pioneer Health Foundation website at www.thephf.org
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