IPEd has opened nominations for the 2022 Janet Mackenzie Medal.
The award recognises a current or past IPEd Professional Member, including Honorary Life Members (HLMs), for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the editing profession, particularly in lifting standards and/or providing exemplary service to IPEd.
The Mackenzie, as it is known, is the most prestigious award offered by IPEd, and recipients receive a medal, an electronic rendering of the medal and honorary life membership of IPEd (if the recipient is not already an HLM).
The award honours the memory of Janet Mackenzie DE (1947–2018). Janet was an HLM and founding member of the IPEd branch Editors Victoria and served IPEd in many capacities over many years.
She was a member of IPEd’s first Standards Working Group (1998–2000) and of the Style Manual 7th Edition Steering Group, from which she resigned only weeks before her death.
Only IPEd Professional Members are eligible. Selection is based on a written nominator statement from an IPEd member, three written referees’ letters of support and the nominee’s three-page CV.
Current members of the IPEd Board, IPEd employees, award judges and award administrators are ineligible for nomination. More information is available in the Nomination Instructions. Nominations close on 30 November 2021.
The 2021 Janet Mackenzie Medal was presented to Edwin (Ted) Briggs AE. The inaugural 2020 Mackenzie recipient was Elizabeth Manning Murphy DE.