PSGB Student Representative

Current Student Representative: Katharine Balolia (University College London)

As the PSGB Student Representative, it is my job to raise student issues within the society and provide information that might be useful to students interested in primatology. If you have any comments, questions, know of any courses or opportunities that may be relevant to students or would like further information about joining the society as a student member, please feel free to contact me.

Every year, the PSGB Spring Meeting is meant to provide a platform for postgraduate students to present an oral or poster presentation.
Most years, there are small grants of £50 available to students, predominantly for those presenting at the conference. Student members wishing to apply for a grant should indicate that they wish to be considered when submitting their abstract/registration form.

The PSGB would like to announce that the second Charles A. Lockwood Student Prize was awarded at the Spring Meeting at the University of Abertay, Dundee as a way to acknowledge Charlie's time spent on the PSGB Council, as well as the thought, dedication and inspiration he provided to his students. The winner of the 2010 medal was Stephen Montgomery from the University of Cambridge, who gave a talk on "What role to microcephaly genes play in primate brain evolution?". The PSGB Student Poster prize was awarded to Cristiane Cäsar from the Univeristy of St Andrews, for her poster on "Predator alarm calls in wild black-fronted titi monkeys Callicebus nigrifrons".

For any meetings, I am happy to help to organise affordable accommodation for students who are attending. Please contact me if you are interested, or have any other questions relating to the meetings.

Email: student@psgb.org

Napier Award for best PhD thesis

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 June 2007.
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 and abstract of the PhD thesis and full list of publications) and two letters of reference (one of which should normally be from the external examiner of the PhD). The last deadline for nominations was 1 August 2009, the next deadline will normally be in 2011. For more details go here.

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The PSGB students now have a Facebook group were matters such as travelling to meetings and other student issues can be discussed. If you are a student member and would like to join simply search for PSGB on Facebook and make a request to admin.

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)
2009  ERIK WILLEMS: From space to species: integrating remotely sensed information on primary productivity into investigations and systems models of vervet monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops) socio-ecology.

Charles Lockwood Medal Winners (established 2009):

2009  CLAIRE SANTORELLI, University of Chester: Vocal traditions in communities of wild spider monkeys
2010  STEPHEN MONTGOMERY, University of Cambridge: What role to microcephaly genes play in primate brain evolution?

Best student poster presentation winners (since 2009):

2009  EMMA NELSON, University of Liverpool: Using digit ratios (2D:4D) to predict the social systems of extinct hominids
2010  CRISTIANE CASAR, University of St. Andrews: Predator alarm calls in wild black-fronted titi monkeys Callicebus nigrifrons.

Charles A. Lockwood Memorial PSGB Grants

Thanks to a generous donation from the Lockwood family, the Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) is delighted to have awarded eight Charles A. Lockwood Memorial PSGB Grants for Students.

Charlie Lockwood was actively involved in supervising and mentoring students, and was passionate about the study of primatology and palaeoanthropology. He encouraged his students to conduct original research, fieldwork and data collection, to present the resulting work at conferences and submit it for publication.

The PSGB are pleased to announce that Lockwood grants have been awarded to:

GRAHAM BANES, University of Cambridge: 'Factors influencing male orang-utan reproductive success'
CONRAD BRIMACOMBE, University of Sheffield: 'Growth and development in the genus Pan: a life history approach'
LAURA BUCK, Roehampton University: 'Craniofacial morphology, paranasal sinuses and adaptation in Pleistocene hominins'
CAMILLE COUDRAT, Oxford Brookes University: 'Ecology of the red-shanked douc monkey in Nakai Nam Theun National Protected Area, central-eastern Laos'
BLAKE MORTON, University of Stirling: 'Inter-individual differences in cognitive ability and social networking strategies in brown capuchin monkeys'
CAROLINE PHILLIPS, University of Cambridge: 'Chimpanzee diet: pyrosequencing DNA from faeces'
ISABELLE WINDER, University of York: 'Linking primate foot anatomy, ecology and landscape use'
REBECCA WYPER, University of Stirling: 'Ecological drivers of macaque crop raiding in Buton, Indonesia: human responses and implications for conservation'