Napier Memorial Medal 2007

The Napier Medal was instituted by the society in memory of its founding president, Prof John Napier, following a bequest to the society. The medal is offered every 2 years to a young primatologist in order to provide encouragement through the public recognition of their work.

Nominations for 9th Napier Memorial Medal (to be awarded at Winter Meeting 2007) are invited on behalf of recent postgraduate students.

To be eligible for consideration candaites must:

1. Be either British or a foreign national who has completed a PhD at a Uk institution

2. Normally be under the age of 30 years on December 1 2007 (although in exceptional circumstances older applicants will be considered)

3. Have submitted their PhD thesis after June 2005.

Candidates should normally be nominated by a member of the society but they may be nominated by their PhD supervisor even if she/he is not a member.

The nomination should consist of

a) CV (including abstract of the thesis and full list of publications)

b) Two letters of reference (one of which should normally be external examiner)

These should be sent to:

Prof Ann MacLarnon

Roehampton University

Human and Life Sciences

Holybourne Avenue

London SW15 4JD

Closing date for nominations is 1 August 2007 and candidates may be asked to provide a copy of their PhD thesis or published work for the committee.

Previous Napier Memorial Medal Winners (established 1991):

1991  CHRISTOPHER PRYCE: Endocrine and social correlates of maternal behaviour in callitrichids

1993  MARTA LAHR: The origins of modem humans: A test of the multiregional hypothesis

1995  CARLOS DREWS: Psychological warfare and the management of relationships between male baboons

1996  NICOLA KOYAMA: Reconciliation behaviour in wild Japanese macaques

1999  MARK COLLARD: Morphological evolution of the hominoids and papionins: implications for    palaeoanthropological cladistics

2001  RUSSELL HILL: Ecological and demographic determinants of time budgets in baboons: implications for cross-population models of baboon socioecology

2003  SUSANNE SHULTZ: Of monkeys and eagles: predator-prey interactions in the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire

2005  CORRI WATT: Facial attractiveness among rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): manipulating and measuring preferences for conspecifics' facial characteristics.