Awards and Grants:

     The following awards and grants are sponsored by Division 35, the Society for the Psychology of Women, either alone or in conjunction with other groups. The work for which the awards are given is typically relevant in some significant way to women's lives, or more generally, to the emerging psychological understanding of gender role influences on human behavior, broadly defined.

1.   Hyde Graduate Student Research Grants
These grants, each up to $500, are awarded to doctoral psychology students to support feminist research. The grants are made possible through the generosity of Janet Hyde, Ph.D., who donates the royalties from her book, "Half the Human Experience," to this fund. Past recipients of Hyde Graduate Student Research Grants are not eligible to apply. Submission deadlines: March 15 and September 15. For more details, use this link.

2.  Annual Prize for Psychological Research on Women and Gender by Graduate or Undergraduate Students
Research topics eligible for this award may represent work in any area of Psychology. The research should be relevant in some significant way to women's lives, or more generally, to the emerging psychological understanding of gender role influences on human behavior. The research may be basic or applied. This prize is awarded by Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) & Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women) of the American Psychological Association (APA) Research. Deadline: April 1st. For more details, use this link.

3.  Heritage Award
The Division 35 Heritage Award is given for a variety of types of contributions to the Psychology of Women. This award is presented to a senior individual or individuals who have made distinguished, long-standing, and substantial contributions that pertain to women, gender, or related issues in the area of teaching. Deadline for the receipt of materials for this award: May 1st. For more details, use this link.

4. Carolyn Wood Sherif Award
The Carolyn Wood Sherif Award Committee invites nominations for the16th annual Carolyn Wood Sherif Award. This award is based on contributions to the field of the psychology of women as a scholar, teacher, mentor, and leader. Thus, selection requires evidence of excellence in teaching and mentoring, research and scholarship, and professional leadership in the area of the psychology of women.
Deadline for the receipt of materials for this award: March 15th. For more details, use this link.

5. Mary Roth Walsh Teaching the Psychology of Women Award
 The Mary Roth Walsh Teaching the Psychology of Women Award is designed to encourage junior faculty teaching the psychology of women or gender course. We particularly want to encourage teaching innovations.
Deadline for the receipt of materials for this award: April 30th. For more details, use this link.

6. The Geis Memorial Award
Florence L. Geis was a Social Psychologist with a strong commitment to research on the Psychology of Women and to the mentoring of women graduate students. In her will, she left an endowment to fund doctoral students conducting dissertation research in feminist psychology. To qualify for funding, the research must be 1) feminist, 2) address a feminist/womanist issue, 3) use social psychology research methods, and 4) make a significant contribution to social psychology theory and research. Proposals will be judged on suitability, feasibility, merit of the research, and the potential of the student to have a career as a feminist researcher in social psychology. Funding need not be used solely to fund the research project. Deadline for the receipt of materials for this award: March 15th. For more details, use this link.

7. The Strickland–Daniel Mentoring Award
The Strickland–Daniel Mentoring Award recognizes the feminist mentoring of the award winner whose mentoring includes several of the following components:

• Introduces mentees to professional contacts and networks
• Takes a personal interest in the mentees
• Provides coaching, supervision, consulting to women psychologists in practice
• Develops an inclusive network of professionals and protégés that includes women from diverse ethnic/racial groups, sexual orientations, social class backgrounds
• Interacts with mentees in formal, informal, and social settings
• Promotes democratic and nonhierarchical styles of interacting
• Offers formal mentoring events and programs
• Models or discusses issues of professional and personal balance
• Provides encouragement and advice to women seeking leadership positions within their agencies and institutions
• Encourages women to participate actively in Division 35 and APA committees and governance

Deadline for the receipt of materials for this award: April 20th. For more details, use this link.

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