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2009 Graduate Student Ethics Prize!
The APA Ethics Committee and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) are pleased to announce the eighth annual prize for a graduate student paper on psychology and ethics. The honoree will receive $1,000, a round trip ticket to APA's 2009 Annual Convention in Toronto, Canada plus three nights of hotel accommodation. The prize will be presented at a convention session.
The following requirements relate to the papers:
- Papers must be received in the Ethics Office by Monday, December 1, in order to be eligible for the prize.
- The prize is open to graduate student affiliates of APA (that is, APAGS members) currently enrolled in a psychology graduate program.
- Please submit two copies: One copy should indicate name and contact information, including an email address and telephone number. The second copy should have no identifying information.
- "Psychology and ethics" is defined broadly, to include any empirical or theoretical paper that examines psychology and ethics in relation to science or research, practice, education, public interest, or theory of ethics. The paper must indicate why its particular focus is worthy of attention.
- Submissions must be written in APA style and may not exceed 25 double-spaced pages (including tables and references).
- Submissions may not have been previously published or submitted for publication.
- While it is expected that authors will receive assistance from faculty advisors, such assistance must not be sufficiently extensive for the faculty member to merit authorship on the paper. The student author(s) must be able to claim sole authorship.
- While papers written for ethics courses are acceptable, it is generally the case that course papers require considerable additional work to warrant serious contention for the Ethics Prize, which is normally awarded to a paper of publishable or near-publishable quality.
- Papers will be judged based upon quality and originality of ideas, clarity of analysis and expression, and adequacy of literature review.
Please submit papers via mail to:
APA Office of Ethics (attn: Ethics Prize)
American Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC, 20002
Or electronically to: Student Ethics Prize
The winning paper will be announced by January 31, 2009.
Questions about the prize? Contact Stephen Behnke under the subject heading "Student ethics prize." |
