Deadline: September 15, 2010
1. Applicants must be graduate students of psychology in good standing with their university, at a regionally accredited university or college located in the United States or Canada.
2. Applicants must be enrolled full-time or working on their dissertation research for an equivalent of full-time enrollment regardless of actual registration status.
3. Applicants must be student affiliates or associate members of the American Psychological Association. Students who are not affiliates must apply for affiliation when submitting materials for the Dissertation Research Award . All materials must be received by the Science Directorate in a single, complete package. The APA Student Affiliate membership form is available online. It can be submitted on the internet or printed and mailed to APA. If you submit the application online, please print the confirmation page receipt and send a copy with your award application. If you print the application and mail it to APA, please include it with your award application.Applicants must have had their dissertation proposals approved by their dissertation committees prior to application.
4. Applicants who have already defended their dissertations are eligible to apply for these funds, as long as they have not yet received a doctoral degree as of the application deadline.
5. Each psychology department (i.e., not individual programs within a department) may endorse no more than three (3) students per year for the APA Dissertation Research Award. If more than three students from a department wish to apply for these funds, the department must perform an initial screening and forward only three applications.
6. A student in a graduate department other than psychology is eligible to apply for the Dissertation Research Award only if she/he demonstrates that she/he is writing a psychological science dissertation and that her/his graduate course of study has been primarily psychological in nature. In order to be eligible to apply for the award, the student in graduate departments other than psychology must justify this eligibility for the award by providing APA Science Directorate staff with the following materials:
(a) dissertation title and brief abstract;
(b) transcript of graduate coursework (unofficial copies are fine); and
(c) a brief written explanation of how these materials show that the graduate course of study has been primarily psychological in nature. This request for award eligibility may be submitted either separately from the application or at the time of application submission.Applicants must not have previously received an APA Dissertation Research Award.The dissertation research may be in any area of psychological research.
All application materials must arrive in one complete package on or before September 15, but after June 1, at:
Dissertation Research Awards
APA Science Directorate
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
Four collated sets of application materials (the originals plus three copies) must be included in each submission. Be sure to keep a copy of the submitted materials for your records. You will receive an email after the application deadline confirming that your application has been received. For more information please visit http://www.apa.org/about/awards/scidir-dissertre.aspx
Source: http://www.apa.org/about/awards/scidir-dissertre.aspx
