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, Florida, USA. MAULE, John (Department of Psychology, University of Sussex) Accurate estimation of the mean hue of rapidly presented multi-hue ensembles. Sendai, ICVS, Japan. HICKEY, Joseph (Optometry & Vision Science, City University) Chromatic sensitivity and visual search in air traffic control. ICVS, Sendai, Japan. WANG, Mengmeng (School of Design, University of Leeds) Investigation of uncertainty of skin colour measurements. CIE, Manchester, UK. VOLPE, Vanessa (School of Health Sciences, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh) Colour and emotional well-being in the healthcare environment. XI CdC, Milan, Italy. |
| 2016 | XU, Jie (Loughborough University) Perception of Colour Identity: A Literature Review of Urban Environmental Colour. 3rd ACA, Beijing, 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, Berlin, Germany. MYLOMAS, Dimitris, (UCL). Differences in Color Naming between British and American English Speakers. AIC2017, Jeju, Korea. 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. |
| 2020 | ASHRAF, Maliha. Spatio-chromatic contrast sensitivity across the lifespan: interactions between age and light in high dynamic range. CIC28 [online] CHEN, Yun. A general colour choosing approach modelling by new research data of designers. AIC2020 [online] HE, Ruili. Assessing skin colour heterogeneity under various light sources. LIM2020 [online] ZHU, Yuteng. Designing a color filter via optimization of vora-value for making a camera more colorimetric. CIC28 [online] |
| 2021 | LEE, Gyeonghwa. The role of colour designers in the design process. AIC2021 [online] Hexley, Allie. A machine-learning approach to illuminant estimation using statistical regularities in photoreceptor signals from real-world surfaces. ECVP2021 [online] |
| 2022 | MUCHHALA, Mubaraka. The geometry of high-level colour perception reflects the amount of information provided by colours about objects. VSS2022, Florida, USA. PENNOCK, Ian. The colours of images preferred by individual voxels delineate visually responsive brain areas. ICVS2022, Heraklion, Greece. |
| 2023 | FEDERICA NORELLI, Maria. The use of colour names over repeated trials. XVIII CdC, Lecco, Italy. EVANS, Benjamin. The colour vision screener: A multicentre study. EVER2023, Valencia, Spain. DIXON, Joyce. ‘Mr Syme’s useful little work’: Colour, collecting and zoological image-making, 1820-1850. ForArtHistory2023, London, UK. LU, Yan. Comparison of regression techniques to predict attractiveness from facial colour cues. VSS2023, Florida, USA. |
| 2024 | WARDEN-ENGLISH, Erin. Duration and luminance intensity of chromatic environments interact to alter our perception of colour. ECVP2024, Aberdeen, UK PONTING, Samuel. Quantifying CIE alpha-opic signals in the built environment. ICVS2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia. SINKEVICIUTE, Akvile. Ageing and colour language in English speakers. ICVS2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia. LI, Shiwen. How do bumblebees interact with iridescent objects? ICVS2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia. |