AIP2025 Presenter Awards 

AIP2025 PhD Presenter Awardee:

Ave Owen, a PhD student at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, was awarded the AIP2025 PhD Presenter Award for their presentation entitled ‘The role of alternative crop cultivation in promoting human-elephant coexistence: A multidisciplinary investigation in Thailand.’ 

AIP2025 Pre-PhD Presenter Awardees:

Maria Anjum, a 2024 Master’s graduate of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, was awarded one of the two AIP2025 Pre-PhD Presenter Awards for her presentation entitled ‘Living with Langurs: Cultural Entanglements of Golden Langurs in Assam’s Shared Spaces, India.’

Natalie Juliet Sanchez, a bachelor student from California State University, Los Angeles, was awarded one of the two AIP2024 Pre-PhD Presenter Awards for her presentation entitled ‘Challenging Pest Narratives through Environmental Justice.’

AIP2025 Flash Talk Awardee:

Victoria Mitchell, a 2024 Master’s graduate of the University of Exeter, was awarded the AIP2025 Flash Talk Award for her short talk entitled ‘Don’t Feed the Gulls’: Signage, Pest Narratives, and Urban Gull Control.’ 

Well done to Ave, Maria, Natalie, and Victoria, and thank you to all the other wonderful presenters who shared their research and enthusiasm for anthrozoology. We hope to be hearing more from you in the future! 

You can view all the recordings here: https://anthrozoologyconference.com/aip-2025/ 

AIP2025 Poster Award

Thanks to support from a Wenner-Gren Foundation Conference Grant, we were also able to offer a monetary prize of 150 USD for a merit-based award to recognise an outstanding AIP2025 poster. The AIP2025 poster award was based on both presentation and alignment with our ethos. A goal of our conference is to promote less anthropocentric engagement with other-than-human animals and showcase research which embraces this. 

AIP2025 Poster Awardee:

Danial Nayeri, a PhD student at Texas A&M University, was awarded the AIP2025 poster award for his poster titled ‘Psychological Drivers of Mountain Lion Management Preferences Among Texas Stakeholders.’

Well done to Daniel and thank you to the creators of all the other wonderful posters who shared their research and enthusiasm for anthrozoology. We hope we will be hearing more from you in the future! 

Book Award

Miami University Project Dragonfly generously donated books which we were able to award to a student (or recent graduate) whose participation in AIP2025 we found inspiring or noteworthy. The selection criteria were based on participant engagement, namely enthusiasm for anthrozoology, support for conference peers, and asking thoughtful questions. 

AIP2025 Engaged Participant Awardee:

Marilyn Anne Campbell, an incoming graduate student at the University of Edinburgh, who delivered a wonderful presentation entitled ‘When is a Wild Animal Truly Free? How a Book on American Politics Can be Applied to the Wild Animal Welfare Movement.’

Well done to Marilyn and thank you to everyone for sharing their enthusiasm for anthrozoology and making AIP2025 a success. We hope we will be hearing more from you in the future! 

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