The Science Academia and Research Advisory Group of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) have selected Dr Phoebe Bailey to receive a 2010 Excellent PhD in Psychology Award. According to the APS, this award “is offered for the purpose of encouraging and rewarding outstanding research in psychology”. The award comes with 12 months free membership of the APS, a cheque for $1000, and an invitation to present a paper at the 46th Annual APS Conference, to be held in Canberra, October 4-8, 2011. Phoebe’s thesis examined age-related differences in the experience of cognitive and affective empathy, and was supervised by Assoc Prof Julie Henry.