About the Award
  SPSP seeks personality and social psychologists from around the world to participate in its activities, striving to reflect the full range of human experiences and global diversity. The goal of this award is to serve as an incubator for testing creative ideas that would help build connections and communication across the world.

  Specifically, we invite creative proposals for ideas on how to increase internationalization within SPSP, with specific goals to promote communication, exchanges, and partnerships with scholars from countries currently underrepresented in SPSP and in mainstream personality and social psychology. Award selection criteria will focus on enhancing international diversity and global representation of the Society and more broadly of the field, as well as the proposal’s potential to build lasting exchanges and partnerships with scholars from underrepresented world regions. We encourage proposals that break boundaries and offer out-of-the-box solutions to foster SPSP’s mission to increase its global presence and reflect social and personality psychologists worldwide.

  Awardees will receive up to $1,500 USD to support the proposed activities (e.g., technology, marketing, membership fees for key collaborators from Low and Middle Income countries, if needed). For proposals that involve an in-person event (whether at the annual SPSP convention or self-organized in other locations), an additional $1,500 will be provided to cover travel expenses of one or more primary organizers. One event organizer will additionally receive complimentary SPSP membership.

  Recipients of this award will work with members of the SPSP International Committee to ensure the project’s feasibility and maximize the impact of proposed activities. At the end of the grant year, the individual or team awarded is expected to prepare a summary of the activity and any information that would be helpful to those planning similar events in the future.

  The types of activities this award would fund are flexible and they can be diverse and creative as long as they meet the award’s objectives. These activities can take place as part of the SPSP Annual Convention or fall outside of the scope of the convention.
 

 Eligibility
  Any SPSP member (or non-member) is eligible to apply for the International Bridge-Building Award. (A one-year membership will be granted for one organizer per award.) Priority will be given to applications that are spearheaded by and focus on scholars from underrepresented areas including most countries in Asia; the Pacific Islands; Oceania; Southern and Eastern Europe; Africa and the Middle East; and Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Our emphasis will be on those who are either based in those contexts or who can provide evidence of being in a good position to build bridges to them.

How to Apply
  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

  Before the April 20, 2024 deadline, applicants will provide their current CV and a 1000-word proposal outlining the program/event (including: a brief budget plan for the use of the $1500 award budget with timeline & activity description; same for the additional $1500 travel budget if applicable), describing how it would meet the goals described above, i.e. contribute to the internationalization of SPSP, and promoting communication, exchanges, and partnerships with scholars from countries currently underrepresented in SPSP and in mainstream personality and social psychology.   
 

Selection Process
 

• Members of the SPSP International Committee will review the applications.
• The main selection criteria will be the proposed program’s ability to increase international communication, collaboration, and partnership with scholars from underrepresented countries.

1Submissions deadline April 21, 2025.

In 2017, inspired by discussion during the Increasing Diversity and Inclusiveness symposium at the 2017 Convention, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology launched the Community Building Grant Program.
SPSP members can apply to use these funds in their efforts to develop community and professional development among members of groups currently underrepresented in the field (including gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and race, disability, and other underrepresented statuses).

Description
SPSP seeks to provide small grants to support personality and social psychologists at all levels. This financial support is intended to assist SPSP members from underrepresented groups in their efforts to develop and host meetings to build community and develop professional skills. Examples could include dinner with an invited speaker, sharing and critiquing job materials, workshopping papers, skills building workshops, building new networks, and other community building activities.

Community Building support is not to be used for individuals to attend the SPSP Convention, preconferences, speaker honorariums, or awards.

Grants may be awarded for an amount up to $2,000. Larger or more formal meetings/conferences should apply for the small conference grant.

Eligibility
To apply for the Community Building Grant, applicants must be members of SPSP with current membership in good standing at time of application.

Evaluation
Your application will be evaluated based on its unique merit and capacity to promote and grow one of our underrepresented communities (including but not limited to: gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and race, disability).

Preference will be given to application that 1) build community (expanding participants’ professional networks) and professional development skills. 2) include activities that develop or build new communities within SPSP, and 3) serve undergraduate students, graduate students, and/or junior scholars. Priority will also be given to applications that are not continuations of formerly funded Community Catalyst Grants though past grantees may still apply.

Rider on Use of Funds
Funds will be made available in one of two ways:
1)     Directly payable to another hosting/sponsoring entity OR the recipient’s university. If this method is chosen, a W9 from the payee will be required. Under this arrangement, SPSP is a sponsor and will not be legally or financially responsible for the conference and no contract should be signed under the auspice of SPSP, Inc.

2)     Funds hosted at SPSP. If this method is chosen, SPSP will be the host of the meeting and will assume contractual responsibility, including financial, legal and tax responsibility. Organizers will maintain control of the program content and will work with SPSP staff on budgets/contracts.
In either payment scenario, if the conference does not occur within 12 months of award, the funds must be returned to SPSP.

How to Apply
Applications are annually: the deadline is April 21, 2025.

The SPSP Fellowship Committee is currently accepting nominations for SPSP Fellows.


  To be considered as an SPSP Fellow, you must:
 

• Be a member of SPSP.
• Have earned your Ph.D. more than 10  years ago.
• Have made an extraordinary and distinctive contribution to the science of Personality and Social Psychology. 

The society recognizes that key contributions can be made not only by academic researchers, but also by teacher/scholars (whose job descriptions might entail little or no research) and applied scholars (who job descriptions entail little or no teaching and mentoring).

Applications will be reviewed taking into consideration the nature of the nominee’s position and key contributions to field. Thus, nominations should indicate which of the following categories best reflects the emphasis of the applicant’s position.
 

Research Emphasis - Review will approximately weight research 50%, teaching and mentoring 25%, and service 25%

Teaching Emphasis - Review will approximately weight research 25%, teaching and mentoring 50%, and service 25%

Applied Emphasis - Review will approximately weight research 50% and service 50%

Criteria that will be considered include scientific contributions, service to the field and community outreach, and excellence in teaching and mentoring (if applicable)

Scientific Contributions: The committee will consider a candidate’s publication record (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, books, and edited volumes) and the scholarly impact of the candidate’s work on theory, data, or methods (e.g., citation counts, research awards, transformative or highly generative works). Impact of research can also be interpreted more broadly to consider the application of research to real world contexts or to inform public policy. This also includes working in government, non-profits, or industry, other evidence of research (even if not externally published) having scientific impact outside their organization will be considered.  

Service to the Field and/or Community Outreach: The committee will consider service contributions to professional organizations, scientific conferences, grant panels, journal editing or editorial boards, task-forces, outreach activities or knowledge translation to stakeholder groups, professional audiences, or general public, scientific blogs, contributions to academic centers or consortia, etc.  

Teaching and Mentoring: The committee will consider evidence of excellence in teaching, pedagogy, and/or mentoring at either the undergraduate, graduate level or executive/professional level. This can include developing and disseminating new curricula, writing a textbook or developing a teaching tool, receiving teaching awards, attracting students from underrepresented groups to the field, going above and beyond the norm in student supervision, mentoring, and leadership and/or producing any kind of scholarly work that improves the teaching of social and personality psychology.

Nominations and self-nominations are welcome.

More information is available at http://spsp.org/membership/fellows . Deadline to submit your application is April 21, 2025.

Please contact awards@spsp.org with any additional questions.