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We are delighted to share the names of the prize winners for each of our categories this year. We had a total of nine prizes available, all of which were judged independently by volunteers. We had a lot of really strong presentations across all categories, so congratulations to everyone who presented.

This year included a prize to recognise the best presentation which had a strong Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) focus, won by Alexander Ishungisa for his lightning talk titled “What do other men think? Understanding (mis)perceptions of peer gender role ideology among young Tanzanian men.”

There were two prizes for the best presentations from Global South and Indigenous presenters (a category which included individuals who informed us they had only recently moved to the Global North, having lived previously in the Global South, and individuals who live in the Global North but are members of indigenous communities there). These were won by Faiz Hashmi for his talk titled “The Functions of Ritualization in Acquiring Mastery: Cultural Transmission of Indian Miniature Paintings”, and Mercedes Okumura for her lightning talk titled “The use of cladistics to explore cultural diversity in Tupiguarani Tradition pottery from São Paulo State, Brazil”.

Student prizes were split into three categories, each with two winners, as follows:

Best Student Talk: Lucie Wolters and Harin Lee, for their talks titled “Universal statistical properties of language emerge in a cultural evolution experiment” and “Melodic and rhythmic regularities of music around the world reveal independent cultural clusters” respectively.

Best Student Lightning Talk: Niccole Porras and Madeleine Ammar, for their lightning talks titled “Evolutionary dynamics of genes and culture under migration” and “Memory, innovation, and vertical transmission” respectively.

Best Student Poster: Emily Jeffries and Emile Bryon for their posters titled “‘The moral of the story’ – Investigating the coevolution of storytelling and human cooperation through phylogenetic comparative analysis” and “Chimpanzees’ capacities to accumulate knowledge in a food enrichment task results in gradual increase in performances efficiency” respectively.

Congratulations to all our winners!