AIP-2025

Thanks to support from a Wenner-Gren Foundation Conference Grant, we were able to offer monetary prizes for several merit-based awards this year. The selection criteria for the AIP2025 awards were based on both delivery 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.

The PhD Presenter Award recognised a PhD student with 250 USD. Two Pre-PhD Presenter Awards recognised students or graduates who have not yet started a PhD with 250 USD each. The Flash Talk Prize awarded one presenter of a short talk with 150 USD, and the Outstanding Poster winner recieves 100 USD.

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.’

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

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.’

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.

Marilyn Anne Campbell, an incoming graduate student at the University of Edinburgh.

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