International Travel/Registration Award

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology offers a limited number of awards to support members from international locations who wish to attend its annual convention. This award is intended to increase the global representation of SPSP members and attendance at the annual convention.

Given the format of the 2022 annual convention, two types of awards will be given this year: travel awards to support in-person attendance and registration awards to support virtual attendance. Both graduate students and teacher/scholars who have already completed their doctoral training are eligible to apply.

Award Info

About the Award

*Available to graduate students, teachers and scholars

The goal of the international travel/registration awards is to increase the representation of scholars from underrepresented countries at the SPSP annual convention. This goal was set because:

SPSP aspires to be international in outlook, both in terms of the populations we study and the researchers who are studying them;
SPSP members from outside of North America are underrepresented at the meetings;
The North American location of the meeting, compounded by wealth disparities between these countries and the U.S., often puts attendance at our conference out of reach for international scholars from underrepresented countries.

Award selection criteria focus primarily on applicants’ contribution to enhancing international diversity and representation, and prioritizes applications from students and teacher/scholars from world regions historically underrepresented at the convention, as members of SPSP, or more broadly in the field of social/personality psychology (more information available under the eligibility tab).

SPSP hosts an International Reception at the conference (time and location to be announced). In-person award winners are expected to attend the reception. The International Committee is exploring ways to make the reception accessible to virtual attendees, and will keep registration award winners apprised of our progress

Award Amounts

International registration award winners must attend the convention virtually and will receive complementary registration.

International travel award winners must attend the convention in-person.

In recognition of large variations in the typical levels of resources and wealth between countries, and in travel costs associated with attending SPSP meetings in North America (based largely on distance travelled), three levels of award are offered. The three levels are based on two simple dichotomies reflecting country-level resources and travel costs.

Country-level resources: Countries are defined as high versus low resource countries based on the "2019 World Bank definition of “high-income economies”.

High resource: 81 countries are identified as relatively high-income based on GNI per capita
Low resource: all other countries are classified as relatively low-income

Travel cost: Countries are defined as high versus low in travel cost.

Low cost: countries are those (a) in the North American continent (including island states) or (b) in Western Europe
High cost: all other countries

Award amounts are based on combinations of these two dichotomies:

High Resource/Low Cost = $600 award
Low Resource/Low Cost and High Resource/High Cost = $1,000 award
Low Resource/High Cost = $1500 award

Eligibility

Applicants cannot have previously won any of the SPSP travel awards (i.e., the International Travel Award, the Graduate Student Travel Award, the Diversity Graduate Travel Award, or the Teacher/Scholar award). If you received a 2021 Annual Convention registration award, you are not disqualified from receiving a registration/travel award in the future.

Applicants may apply for this award together with any other travel award for which they are qualified (see here for a full listing of available travel/registration awards). However, an applicant can receive only one of the awards.

Geographic Eligibility

Applicants must reside outside of the U.S. and Canada at the time of the conference. Country of residence will normally be based on the location of the applicants’ institution. Although individuals from any world region outside of North America are eligible to apply, applicants from underrepresented regions will be given priority in the evaluation process. For the purposes of this award, underrepresented regions include most countries in Southern and Eastern Europe; Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Oceania; Africa and the Middle East; and Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

Other Criteria

Graduate student applicants must be enrolled in a graduate program in psychology, and have research interests that fall broadly within areas of personality, social, or a related sub-field (e.g., political psychology, health psychology, cultural psychology, etc.). Undergraduate students are NOT eligible to apply.

Teacher/scholar applicants must teach and work primarily with undergraduate or Master’s level students, and have research interests that fall broadly within the areas of personality, social or a related sub-field (e.g., political psychology, health psychology, cultural psychology, etc.).

Undergraduate students are not eligible to apply.

Non-members are eligible to apply, but must become members to accept the award. Applicants from underrepresented regions may be eligible for dues reduction or exemption. Please contact membership@spsp.org for additional information.

International applicants may apply for this award together with any other travel award for which they are qualified (i.e., the Diversity Travel Award, Graduate Student Travel Award, or a Teacher/ Scholar Award). However, an applicant can receive only one of the awards.

The 2022 Annual Convention will offer two registration options: in-person experience or a virtual experience.

How to Apply

Please login to view the form and apply. Login by clicking the login button above. If you are not a member of SPSP and do not have an account with us, create an account here. Questions? Contact awards@spsp.org.

Submission Requirements

A current vitae (CV)
Presentation abstract for a submitted conference presentation (poster, symposia or data blitz). This is not required, but priority may be given to applicants presenting at the conference.
A 250-word essay in which you describe how your research and/or your life experiences contribute to the internationalization of SPSP or of social and personality psychology research and how you would benefit from receiving an international award.

The application will be open June 29 – July 20, 11:59 p.m. ET.

Apply here

Past Recipients

2021 Convention

Xiaohan Lin, NYU Shanghai, China
Syed A Hussain, Arizona State University, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication, Pakistan
Junix Jerald Intal Delos Santos, University of Baguio, Phillipines
Upekha Pathumi Miriyagalla, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Claudia Gherghel, Hitosubashi University, Japan
Orly Bareket, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Alethea H. Q. Koh, Kyoto University, Japan
Kongmeng Liew, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Ariane Virgona, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Mayu Koike, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Navdeep Kaur, Kurukshetra University, India
Nathalia Melo de Carvalho, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil
Tiago Azevedo Marot, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil
Anna George, University of Oxford, England
Jessica Boin, University of Padova, Italy
Terri Tan Su-May, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Esra Cetinkaya, Koç University, Turkey
Jiayu Chen, Nagoya University, Japan
Richelle-Joy Chia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Yoonseok Choi, Sogang University, Korea
Sophie Cronin, Curtin University, Australia
Chun Hui Lim, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jacob Israelashvilli, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Rui Jin, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sangmin Kim, Yonsei University, Korea
Stephanie Kripprath, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Siobhan Maeve O'Dean, University of New South Wales, Australia
Marco Marinucci, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Deborah Newman, Hebrew University, Israel
Yuki Nozaki, Konan University, Japan
Jiaxin Shi, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Quilu Shou, Tamagawa University, Japan
Danushika Sivanathan, The Australian National University, Australia
Elizabeth Summerell, University of New South Wales, Australia
Thanaphat Thongpaibool, University of Otago, New Zealand
Yan Bernades Vieites, FGV/EBAPE, Brazil
Felipe Vilanova, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grade do Sul, Brazil
Tong Zhou, Shanghai Normal University, China

Contact

For more information, please contact awards@spsp.org.

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