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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 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.
Criteria: Any dissertation in the (broadly defined) domain of developmental psychology that has been successfully defended at a University in any European country during the period 1-1-2009 to 31-12-2010 is eligible to be included in the competition organized by the EADP. The award will be attributed during the 2011 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 Bergen, 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.
Procedure: EADP members as well as non-members are invited to submit nominees (authors of PhD dissertations) as candidates for the award. Self-nomination is permitted. The applicant should send an article or a chapter, either published, in press or submitted. In any case, the proposal should be based on the dissertation. It must be written in English and comply with APA standards; it should not exceed 25 pages (double spaced) excluding figures and tables. The paper plus a copy of the original thesis (any European language is permitted) should be sent by email to the chair of the Award committee (pdf format preferred), before March 31st, 2011. All nominations should be accompanied by two letters of recommendation by senior scholars (also by email).
The 2011 Butterworth Young Scientist Award committee is composed by: Frosso Motti-Stefanidi and Daniel Mellier, members of the EADP Council, and Elena Hoicka who received the 2009 George Butterworth Young Scientist Award at the Vilnius Conference.
Chair of the Butterworth Award committee: frmotti@psych.uoa.gr
Deadline: March 31, 2011
The 2007 Butterworth awardee is
Dr. Ulf Liszkowski
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
The 2009 Butterworth awardee is
Dr. Elena Hoicka
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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 Society for Developmental Psychology (ESDP) 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 ESDP, the university will support this Award with a donation for 2007, 2009, and 2011. European Association of Developmental Psychology (EADP) will take care for its continuation.
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 XV European Congress of Developmental Psychology in Bergen, Norway in August 23-27, 2011. ESDP 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 ESDP 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 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 ESDP 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 ESDP, followed by the lecture of the award winner. The funds donated are meant to cover travel and accommodation for the awardee, and for a special reception or dinner. The Award implies an honorary membership with the ESDP, and free attendance to three biennial ESDP conferences.
The Award Committee 2011 consists of Maria Jose Rodrigo (La Laguna, president of ESDP). Luc Goossens (Leuven, president-elect of ESDP), Christiane Spiel (Vienna, past president of ESDP), Paul Harris (Harvard, winner of the 2009 award), and Lars Bergman (Stockholm University).
Proposals should be sent via email to the President: mjrodri@ull.es
Deadline: May 31, 2011
The 2007 Preyer awardee is
Professor Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı
Koç University, Turkey
The 2009 Preyer awardee is
Professor Paul Harris
Harvard School of Education
