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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Nominations must be submitted by May 31, 2013
to the Chair of the EADP Preyer Award Committee Luc Goossens
(Luc.Goossens@ppw.kuleuven.be)
The William Thierry Preyer Award for Excellence in Research on Human Development will be given to a European psychologist or a group of European psychologists – who is/are recognized internationally for an original and substantial contribution to a better understanding of human development and its contexts, as demonstrated by first-rate publications in scholarly journals, based on empirical research into the antecedents, processes and outcomes of human development-in-context.
The William Thierry Preyer Award was donated to the European Association of Developmental Psychology (previously European Society for Developmental Psychology) by the President of the 2007 European Congress on Developmental Psychology and the Rector of the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany. According to an agreement with the European Association of Developmental Psychology (EADP), the university will continue to support this award through a long-term donation. EADP will take care that the award will excel its history and current reputation of developmental science.
William Thierry Preyer (1841-1897), born in England, was the Chair of Physiology at the University of Jena, Germany. His vision was inspired by Charles Darwin, and his main works have importance till today – “Spezielle Physiologie des Embryos” and “Die Seele des Kindes” (The Mind of the Child). Both books lead the foundation in their respective scientific disciplines, developmental physiology and developmental psychology, and seen from modern interdisciplinary views on human development, Preyer is a major forerunner of rigorous research on human development, based on observation and experimentation.
Criteria: The Award will be given to a European psychologist or a group of European psychologists – who is/are recognized internationally for an original and substantial contribution to a better understanding of human development and its contexts, as demonstrated by first-rate publications in scholarly journals, based on empirical research into the antecedents, processes and outcomes of human development-in-context.
Procedure: The Award will be given on the occasion of the XVI European Congress of Developmental Psychology in Lausanne, Switzerland in September 3-7, 2013. EADP is in charge of organizing a Preyer Award Committee, which includes its President, its President-Elect and three other outstanding international developmentalists. Nominations can be made, by every EADP member and by members of the Committee who are free to consult with other scientists and scientific bodies, including former Award winners. A recommendation to the Executive Council (EC) will be made by the Committee and confirmed by the EC. Nominations should be accompanied by a statement as to how the nominee(s) meet(s) the criteria, and by the full curriculum vitae of the nominee(s), and should be signed by two nominators. Members of the EC of EADP are not eligible for the Award during their mandate. They become so 5 years after the end of their last mandate. The Preyer Award is given during the Opening Ceremony of the Conference by the President of EADP, followed by the lecture of the award winner. The Award implies an honorary membership with the EADP, and free attendance to three biennial EADP conferences.
The Award Committee 2013 consists of Luc Goosens (Leuven, President of EADP), Frosso Motti (Athens, President-Elect of EADP), Maria José Rodrigo (La Laguna, Past President of EADP), Paul Harris (Harvard, winner of the 2009 award), and Josef Perner (Salzburg, winner of the 2011 award).
Proposals should be sent via email to the president: luc.goossens@psy.kuleuven.ac.be
Deadline: May 31, 2013.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Nominations must be submitted by May 31, 2013
to the Chair of the EADP Butterworth Award committee Ana Almeida
(aalmeida@ie.uminho.pt)
George Butterworth was one of the two founding fathers of the European Society for Developmental Psychology. He died on February 12th, 2000.
George Butterworth was an internationally respected authority on infant development. After completing his D.Phil. at Oxford, his professional stations were at Southampton University, at the University of Stirling, and ultimately at the University of Sussex. He was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of East London in 1996. His contributions to the discipline include founding both the British Infancy Research Group and the Journal Developmental Science.
The European Association of Developmental Psychology (previously European Society for Developmental Psychology) established the George Butterworth Young Scientist Award in his honor. The Award is given every two years, and it will be presented for the third time at the 16th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, September 3-7, 2013, Lausanne, Switzerland.
The 2013 Butterworth Young Scientist Award committee is composed of:
professors Ana Almeida and Katariina Salmela-Aro, members of the EADP council, and Theo Klimstra, University of Leuven, Belgium, who received the 2011 Butterworth Young Scientist Award at the Bergen Conference.
The awardee will receive EUR 500. He/she will be offered the opportunity to present the research of the dissertation as an invited address at the Conference in Lausanne, and will be invited, and supported, to publish the invited address in the European Journal of Developmental Psychology. He/she will also be invited to join the next award committee.
Requirements
Candidates must have successfully defended their dissertation in the (broadly defined) domain of developmental psychology at a University in any European country during the period 1-1-2011 to 31-12-2012.
Nomination procedure
EADP members, as well as non-members, may submit nominations. Self-nominations are also permitted. Two letters of recommendation written by senior scholars should accompany all nominations. The proposal should be based on the dissertation of the nominee. However, the nominating individual must send an article or chapter of the nominee that has either been published, is in press or has been submitted for review. It must be written in English following APA format.
The recommendation letters, the article or chapter, and a copy of the original PhD thesis (any European language is permitted) should be sent by email to the chair of the Award committee, Ana Almeida (PDF format preferred), before May 31, 2013.
