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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.
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 1-1-2003 to 31-12-2006 is eligible to be included in the competition organized by the ESDP. The award will be attributed during the Jena Conference. The awardee will receive € 500. He/she will be offered the opportunity to present the research of the dissertation as an invited address at the Conference in Jena, 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.
Please feel invited to submit nominations of authors of the dissertations (the former PhD students) as candidates for the award. Self-nominations are permitted. The applicants should send a paprer 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 submitted to each of the committee members by email. The paper should comply with the APA publication standard. The length of the paper should not exceed 25 pages (double spaced) excluding figures and tables. At the same time, the applicants should send one copy of the original thesis (any European language is permitted) to the chair of the committee. All nominations should be accompanied by two letters of recommendation by senior scholars.
The 2007 Butterworth awardee is
Dr. Ulf Liszkowski
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
He received the award during the opening ceremony of the 13th European Conference on Developmental Psychology on August 21, 2007, in Jena, Germany.
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 the next three congresses. ESDP 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 European Congress of Developmental Psychology. ESDP is in charge of a Preyer Award Committee which includes its President, its President-Elect and four to five other outstanding international developmentalists. Nominations can be made, following a Call normally announced 6 months subsequent to the previous Congress, 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. A Preyer Award Lecture by the winner will be delivered during the next European Conference of Developmental Psychology. The Preyer Award is given during the Opening Ceremony of the Conference by the President of ESDP. It may be given in the form of a diploma or a medal. The funds donated are meant to cover travel and accommodation for the awardee, and for a special reception or dinner.
The 2007 Preyer awardee is
Professor Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı
Koç University, Turkey
She received the award during the opening ceremony of the 13th European Conference on Developmental Psychology on August 21, 2007, in Jena, Germany.
