Each year for the past 62 years the Medal has been awarded to up to three highly regarded academics for their “distinguished work in Zoology”.
Dr Stephanie King is based in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol. Her research looks at how dolphins interact with individually distinctive whistles, and how vocal communication can mediate complex social behaviours, like cooperation, in animal communities.
“I have worked hard to push the field of cetacean biology forward by utilising state-of-the-art technology and playback experiments to study social cognition in the wild. I am privileged to work on a remarkable dolphin population and with a collaborative team of international researchers.” Dr King’s research has been featured on the BBC and last year she beat 700 other academics to be awarded $1.44million for her project called ‘The Social Origins of Rhythm’.