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.
An obituary of Prof W D Wright is here.
Previous recipients 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). |
| 2010 | BACHY Romain (University of Bradford,ECVP Switzerland) MYLONAS Dimitris (London College Communication, CGIV Finland) PANORGIAS Athanasios (University of Manchester ARVO USA) |
| 2012 | CHOU, Yi-Fan (University of Leeds, CGIV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) TAO, Lan (University of Leeds, (University of Leeds, CGIV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
| 2014 | GILLESPIE-GALLERY, Hanna (City University London) |
| 2015 | CRANWELL, Matthew (Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University) Dissociation of chromatic discrimination ability in developmental disorders: Autism Spectrum Disorder and Williams Syndrome. VSS, US MAULE, John (Department of Psychology, University of Sussex) Accurate estimation of the mean hue of rapidly presented multi-hue ensembles. ICVS, Japan HICKEY, Joseph (Optometry & Vision Science, City University) Chromatic sensitivity and visual search in air traffic control. ICVS, Japan. WANG, Mengmeng (School of Design, University of Leeds) Investigation of uncertainty of skin colour measurements. CIE, Manchester VOLPE, Vanessa () Colour and emotional well-being in the healthcare environment. XI Colour Conference of the ICG, Italy. |
| 2016 | JIE Xu (Loughborough University ) Perception of Colour Identity: A Literature Review of Urban Environmental Colou. 3rd Conference of the Asian Colour Association, China |
| 2017 | GOOBY, Becky (UWE Bristol). The development of methodologies for digital colour printing in textile design. Textiles & Life. Survival to Fashion and Everything In Between – The Textile Institute Student Conference, Manchester UK ASTON Stacey, (Newcastle University). Memory effects, central tendency, serial dependency or just task bias? An investigation using illumination hue discrimination. ECVP2017 MYLOMAS, Dimitris, (UCL). Differences in Color Naming between British and American English Speakers. 13th AIC Congress 2017. HARDMAN, Amanda, details not available |
| 2019 | NIXON, Miranda. Accurate device‐independent colorimetric measurements using smartphones. CIC27, Paris, France YANG, Jie. Deriving colour palettes from images of natural landscapes. AIC2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina SARYAZDI, Simon. The visual phenomenology of visual snow syndrome and hallucinogen persisting perception disorder . ICVS2019, Riga, Latvia JIN, Jin. Effect of intensity of short‐wavelength light on electroencephalogram and subjective alertness, AIC2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina GARSIDE, Daniel. Assessing the effectiveness of a melanopsin‐based signal for colour constancy. ICVS2019, Riga, Latvia MYLONOS, Dimitri. Mapping colour names in cone excitation space. ICVS2019, Riga, Latvia |