International Registration Award

Award Info

Description

About the Award

For many international researchers, the location of the SPSP annual meeting often puts attendance out of reach. While this is not the case for the 2021 meeting for those with access to high-speed Internet, the cumulative impact of the effect of travel costs continues. This award is an effort to offset this impact. Award selection criteria therefore focus primarily on applicants’ contribution to enhancing international diversity and representation, taking into account the countries and world regions currently represented in personality and social psychology (e.g., among authors of publications, and attendees at the meeting in the previous 5 years).

SPSP hosts an International reception at the conference (time and location, an on-line “room” for 2021, to be announced). Award winners are invited to attend the reception, where they will have the opportunity to meet with each other, members of the international committee, and other SPSP members interested in international research.

International members of SPSP who have not previously received a travel award from SPSP may apply for this award together with any other registration award for which they are qualified (i.e., the Diversity Registration Award, Graduate Student Registration Award, or a Teacher/ Scholar Award). However, an applicant can receive only one of the awards.

Selection Process

Selection of awardees will be carried out by members of the SPSP International Committee. Applicants will be ranked based on a combination of two factors:

1. Overall merit of the application (including the essay, vita, and if presenting at the conference, the presentation abstract).

2. Contribution to enhancing international representation at the SPSP conference, based on:

The applicant coming from a region that is under-represented at the conference, and/or
The applicant coming from a region that is under-represented as authors in SPSP publications, and/or
The research to be presented employs participants from internationally under-represented populations.

Eligibility

Applicants for the award are required to be SPSP members at the time of submission. Applicants from under-represented regions may be eligible for dues exemption. Please contact membership@spsp.org for additional information about a hardship dues exemption.

Applicants must reside outside of the U.S.A. and Canada during most of the year just preceding the 2021 annual meeting. Country of residence will normally be based on the location of the applicants’ institution. Although students and teacher/scholars from any world regions are eligible to apply, applications from under-represented regions will be given additional weight in the evaluation process.

Applicants cannot have previously won any of the SPSP registration awards (i.e., the International Travel Award, the Graduate Student Travel Award, the Diversity Graduate Travel Award, or the Teacher/Scholar award). Considering that the 2021 conference is all on-line and therefore the travel awards have been converted to registration awards, receiving a registration award will not disqualify individuals from receiving a travel award in a future year. If applicants are selected for more than one registration award in 2021, they must choose one award and decline the other(s).

How to Apply

Submission Requirements

A current vitae (CV)

Presentation abstract for a submitted conference presentation (poster, symposia or data blitz). This is not a requirement, but priority may be given to researchers presenting at the conference.

A 250-word essay describing 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.

Country of origin: __________________________

Current affiliation: __________________________

Where are you living now? _________________________

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Past Recipients

2020 Convention

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 on the International Registration Award, please contact Travis Clark at tclark@spsp.org