The Primatology Recognition Award is a new initiative created by the PSGB. With this award we aim to further highlight the wonderful contributions made to the field of primatology by both Undergraduate and Postgraduate students. We have launched both the Undergraduate Primatology Recognition Award and the Postgraduate Primatology Recognition Award.
*The Postgraduate award is aimed at Master's level students as we award the Napier Medal to PhD students.
One undergraduate and one postgraduate award per institution can be given per year and the successful student will receive a certificate and a year’s membership of the Society. At each awarding institution, awards will be overseen by a nominated individual, who will advertise them to their students.
We hope that this will encourage student participation in and membership of the Society and raise the profile of primatology. The awards will usually be for the highest-graded primatological dissertation in the degree programme but may, in exceptional circumstances, be granted for other achievements deemed to be equally deserving. Recipients of the awards will be asked to contribute a summary of their work to Primate Eye.
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If you would like to introduce these awards to your institute, nominate your students, or learn more, please contact Education Officer and Editor Lindsay Murray at [email protected].
We have just closed our first round of nominations for the Postgraduate Primatology Recognition Awards. Please keep an eye on social media for further updates for future nominations.
Undergraduate Primatology Recognition Awardees
The PSGB Undergraduate Primatology Recognition Awardees celebrates undergraduate students who demonstrate exceptional work and dedication to the study of primatology. Students receive a certificate and years membership of the society.
Our 2025 Winner:
- Molly Allum, University of Bangor, for her research project, Navigating agricultural landscapes: Crop-foraging and risk mitigation in Zanzibar red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus kirkii).
Previous Winners:
2024
- Jingyu Chen, University of Cambridge, for research into community-based conservation of the Skywalker Hoolock Gibbons (Hoolock tianxing) in Lisu communities in Yingjiang County, China.
2023
- Yolanda Qian, Durham University
- Emma Ledward, Bangor University
