Two Cambridge academics have been selected as the joint recipients of one of the most prestigious honours for scientific achievement in the field of psychology.
Two Cambridge academics have been selected as the joint recipients of one of the most prestigious honours for scientific achievement in the field of psychology.
Professors Barry Everitt and Trevor Robbins are to be awarded the 2011 American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.
The award recognizes distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology and is being presented to Professor Everitt and Professor Robbins for their research in behavioural and cognitive neuroscience – marking a collaboration that began in 1980 when Professor Robbins was a lecturer in the Department of Experimental Psychology and Professor Everitt was a lecturer in the Department of Anatomy (moving to Experimental Psychology in 1994).
They will be collecting their award this August in Washington, DC during the annual APA Meeting where they have both been invited to give plenary lectures.
Professors Everitt and Robbins issued the following joint statement regarding this news:
“We are both delighted to have received this prestigious international award, especially as relatively few psychologists from the U.K. have been previous recipients. It perhaps acknowledges some of the strengths of British Psychology, particularly in the domains of behavioural and cognitive neuroscience, which we are proud to represent. We are grateful for the generous research funding from the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust that has supported this work over the last 30 years, as well as from the University of Cambridge, where this work has been conducted.
“We were originally based in two different University Departments, but a University initiative and developments such as the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute as well as more recently, Cambridge Neuroscience, have undoubtedly facilitated this research collaboration. We have also been fortunate to have had working with us outstanding graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, as well as many exceptional colleagues and collaborators, and we readily acknowledge their generous contributions to the research for which our laboratory is known”.
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