RTPI Awards for Research Excellence

Celebrating Research Excellence

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The RTPI Awards for Research Excellence 2025 provide an opportunity to celebrate leading research across the planning community.

Now in their tenth year, these prestigious awards continue to recognise and promote high quality, impactful spatial planning research.

The awards are intended to recognise the best spatial planning research from RTPI-accredited planning schools, highlight the implications of academic research for policy and practice, recognise the valuable contribution of planning consultancies to planning research and promote planning research generally.

What's new for 2025?

The 2025 RTPI Awards for Research Excellence sees two newly renamed categories in commemoration of two guiding members of the planning research community who passed away in 2024.
- The Patsy Healey Award for Academic Excellence
- The Tony Crook Award for Early Career Research
  
  Read more about the renamed categories.

For the 2025 Awards for Research Excellence we are taking entries on the Zealous platform.

Award categories:

Here’s how to enter:

Head to our awards page to select the category you will be submitting an entry for.
Once you've selected the award category you'll be prompted to create an account to start your submission.
Read through the entry guidelines as this will cover eligibility and judging criteria and our terms and conditions.
You can also view the eligibility and judging criteria on each of the category pages below.
Complete and submit your entry by 18 May at 11:59pm

The closing date for entries is 18 May 2025.

Start your submission on Zealous today

Key dates 2025

18 March - RTPI Awards open for entries
18 May at 11.59pm - Awards close for entries
15 July - Finalists announced
10 September - Announcing the winners at the UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference drinks reception in Belfast

For more information

If you have any questions please contact [email protected]

Please contact Lucy Barton-Roberts or The Awards Team to discuss sponsorship opportunities.

Eligibility and judging criteria

Eligibility and judging criteria vary by award category. You can find out more by clicking on the award categories below.

Number of entries per individual

Individuals are welcome to submit more than one entry, whether to one or multiple categories. Each entry should be submitted separately through the online application process.