Napier Memorial Medal 2009

The Napier Memorial Medal was instituted by the Society in memory of its founding President, Professor John Napier, following a bequest to the Society. The medal is offered every two years to a new primatologist in order to provide encouragement through the public recognition of their work.

To be eligible for consideration candidates must:

1. be either a British subject or a foreign national who has completed a PhD at a UK institution of higher education

2. have had the final submission of their PhD after appr. June 2009 (to be confirmed) for the future round in 2011.

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

The nomination should consist of:

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

b) Two letters of reference (one of which should normally be from the external examiner of the PhD).

These should be sent to (by mail or email):

Prof Ann MacLarnon

Roehampton University

Human and Life Sciences

Holybourne Avenue

London SW15 4JD

A.MacLarnon@roehampton.ac.uk

The last closing date for nominations was 1 August 2009. A new round will start in 2011. 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.

2007  ANNIKA PAUKNER: Secondary representational abilities in nonhuman primates (Macaca nemestrina, Cebus apella).