Lifetime Achievement Awards

The Award of Lifetime Membership is in recognition of services to ISSBD and the field of lifespan developmental science. The criteria for awarding a Lifetime Membership Award are as follows:

• The recipient has been an ISSBD member for a long period of time, normally at least 30 years, and will normally be retired
• Evidence of substantive contributions to ISSBD over time — e.g. membership of committees; presentation of keynote addresses at biennial meetings; attendance at Biennial Meetings; publication of papers in IJBD
• Evidence of significant contributions to developmental science — recognition within the field through prestigious appointments and/or honours; publication record and citations

Current Lifetime Member Awards

Jacqueline Goodnow, Australia (deceased): awarded 2013
Willard Hartup, University of Minnesota: awarded 2013
Rolf Oerter, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich: awarded 2013
Sir Michael Rutter, Kings College London: awarded 2013
Anne Petersen, University of Michigan: awarded 2015
Rainer Silbereisen, University of Jena: awarded 2015
Barry Schneider, University of Ottawa: awarded 2015
Zhaolan Meng, Peking University, awarded 2015