John Frederick Adrian Sprent Prize

The John Frederick Adrian Sprent Prize is a cash prize awarded to a student member of the Australian Society for Parasitology who has written an outstanding PhD thesis in parasitology awarded during the previous three years. The recipient receives a cash prize, a certificate, a bronze plaque, delivers a lecture at the Society's annual conference, and is reimbursed for reasonable travel costs and hosted as a guest of the Society for the duration of the conference. Nominations are made by a proposer and a seconder who are members of the Society. The prize is awarded by a selection committee appointed by the Society Council and nominations are called every three years, although the prize need not be awarded at each selection.

Cash prize, certificate, bronze plaque, reimbursement of reasonable travel costs to the annual conference, guest hospitality at the conference, opportunity to deliver a lecture at the annual conference.

The prize is open to Student members of the Society who have been awarded a PhD in Parasitology during the previous three years. Nominations must be made by a proposer and a seconder who are members of the Australian Society for Parasitology and include thesis copies, a signed statement of merits, a detailed CV, and copies of any publications post-dating the PhD submission date.

Nominations by a proposer and seconder who are Society members; nomination package must include copies of the nominee's thesis, a detailed signed statement describing the merits of the postgraduate research, a detailed CV, and copies of any publications post-dating the PhD submission. Nominations may be sent by email to secretary@parasite.org.au.