| ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE AWARD | |
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| Award Criteria | For post-graduates who have been awarded a PhD, whose work is considered by their Head of Department to be outstanding. The research involved should be a major contribution to the Science of Entomology. |
| Prize | £750 plus Certificate, plus one years free Membership. The winner will also be invited to present their work at a Society Meeting. |
| Eligibility | All post-graduates who have earned a PhD within the year preceding the closing date for nominations. |
| Cycle | Annual, entries to be received by 1st October in any year. Winners announced in the following year. |
| Adjudication | A group of senior Fellows of the Society. |
| Entry | The candidate's supervisor should complete the entry form (link below), have it signed by the Head of Department, append a copy of the abstract of the thesis, and send it to the Registrar to arrive by 1st October. Please do not send a copy of the thesis itself until requested to do so. The candidate will at that stage be asked also to provide a 500-word statement expressing in layman's terms the contribution that their work has made to entomology. Entry Form |
| Further information | Link to Alfred Russel Wallace Website |
| ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE AWARD PRIZEWINNERS | |
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| 2007/08 winner: | Dr Hannah M Rowland for her studies of the visual and behavioural ecology of countershading and other prey defences. |
| 2006/07 winner: | Dr Timothy C Hawes for his studies of Plasticity in arthropod cryotypes - a polar perpective. |
| 2005/06 winner: | Dr James Logan for his studies of differential resonses of mosquitoes and biting midges to human host odours. |
| 2004/05 winner of this new award: |
Dr Joseph Parker of M.R.C. Cambridge for his work on size control mechanisms in fruit fly embryos. |
