W D WRIGHT AWARDS
In 1978, the Committee of the Colour Group felt that an award should be made to honour David Wright and that it should be connected with students in view of his close connection with educational establishments. A Working Party was established and their proposal that the award should be a travelling grant for students to attend overseas conferences was readily accepted by the Committee. It was agreed that £200 should be given every two years and it was expected that it would go towards travelling to AIC, CIE, International Research Group on Vision or similar conferences.
The announcement of the award was made at the Annual General Meeting in 1979 and the first award was to be made in 1981. It was always expected that the winners would present a report on the conferences that they had attended or on their work.
Today, the WDW Award carries on this tradition though inflation means more is spent. The Awards are now made every second year, alternating with the Palmer Award.
An obituray of Prof W D Wright is here.
Earlier recipients of the awards include:
| 1981 | I Hendricks, S West |
| 1983 | R S Snelgar, J A F Wilson |
| 1985 | J Bromley, H Hilkin, D Travis |
| 1987 | M O Scase |
| 1989 | S Austell, P Brent, M P Tyrrell |
| 1991 | R Nath, C J Savage, A Morland, G Jordan |
| 1994 | S M C Nascimento, Julie Wright |
| 1996 | Victoria Cole, Clara Ovenston, Adrian Ford, Ben Regan |
| 1998 | M Pacheco-Cutilias, S Triantaphillidou, M W Wright, M P Simunovic, A Koller |
| 2000 | Gerald Schaefer, Caterina Ripamonti, Hannah Elizabeth Smithson, Samira Bouzit |
| 2002 | Fotini Koussiaki, Kit Wolf, Raymond Beirne, Emma Oxtoby, Efthimia Bilissi |
| 2004 | Yazhu Ling, Marissa Rodriguez-Carmona, Charikleia Vakrou |
| 2006 | Caterina Ripamonte |
| 2008 | Luis Garcia-Suarez (Bradford University), Monica Hedrich (Bradford University), Philip Henry (Leeds University), Saori Kitaguchi (Leeds University), Elza Tantcheva (Sussex University), Milena Vurro (Newcastle University). Posters, abstract or papers fo the work present may be found here. |
| 2010 | BACHY Romain (University of Bradford,ECVP
Switzerland) MYLONAS Dimitris (London College Communication, CGIV
Finland) PANORGIAS Athanasios (University of Manchester ARVO USA)
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