Other funding Opportunities

Cognitive Section

The Cognitive section aims to provide some financial assistance to help postgraduates to attend and present posters/papers at the Annual Conference of the BPS Cognitive Psychology Section.

The award is open to postgraduates registered for research degrees at any UK or Republic of Ireland institution. Awards will be prioritised towards postgraduates who are members of the BPS Cognitive Section (or have applied for membership), although non-members may apply.

Currently, the maximum value of awards is £100 per applicant. Awards could contribute towards registration, accommodation at the conference venue, or travel to the conference.

Details of how and when to apply will be announced each year when conference details are finalised. See the BPS Cognitive Psychology Section website for more information.

Further conditions: Retrospective applications will not be considered. The number of bursaries available each year will depend on resources and award of a bursary cannot be guaranteed even if all requirements for eligibility have been met. Decisions will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into regarding unsuccessful applications.

Note: In order to join the Cognitive Section, individuals must already be a member of the British Psychological Society. BPS members can join the Cognitive Section by obtaining the appropriate application form from the BPS Leicester office (BPS, St Andrews House, 48 Princess Road East, Leicester, LE1 7DR).

If you have any specific questions about the bursary scheme please email the Hon. Treasurer: louise.phillips@abdn.ac.uk.

Developmental Section

Currently the developmental section does not offer any bursaries. However, to encourage students to present at the section's annual conference, registration fees for student presenters have been lowered from £30 to £5, and there is also a postgraduate prize of £50 for the best poster at the conference.

Division of Forensic Psychology - Annual Junior Awards

Two annual awards are made for the best research projects in legal, criminological or forensic psychology. One is available to those on taught courses, and the other to those taking research degrees.

Junior Awards are open to UK psychology students or overseas psychology students who have conducted the work in the UK. Applicants must submit their work in the form of a journal article, maximum 8,000 words.

All submissions should be sent to the Division's Secretary. The entries are judged by an Award Committee appointed by the Division's Committee. The Award Committee will seek expert advice, as necessary. All research should conform to BPS ethical guidelines. The Award Committee need not make an award in any given year if submissions are considered undeserving of an award. Each award will be a prize of £100 plus an invitation to attend the DFP Annual Conference as a guest of the Division, with all reasonable travelling expenses within the UK met by the Division. Recipients of awards will be invited to give a presentation at the conference, and will also receive one year's free membership of the Division.

For further information and details concerning closing dates please contact the Psy-PAG DFP Representative. Contact details are available on the committee page.

Division of Health Psychology,

No up-to-date information is available for this division though as soon as more info is available, it will be posted here.

Enquiries should be made to:
Chair of the DHP Conference Scientific Committee,
c/o The Secretary to the Division of Health Psychology,
The British Psychological Society,
St. Andrews House,
48 Princess Road East,
Leicester LE1 7DR.

Lesbian and Gay Psychology Section

As part of its commitment to the development of lesbian and gay psychology in the UK, the BPS Lesbian & Gay Psychology Section instituted an annual postgraduate prize in 2000. The prize is awarded for the best submission based on a postgraduate thesis or on the research element of a postgraduate portfolio that is relevant to lesbian and gay psychology. The deadline for submissions is 1 September 2004.

The winning entry will be published in Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review. The winner will receive a framed certificate, a year's free membership of the Section and will have their registration fee paid to allow them to attend a Section conference (or a BPS conference at which there is a Section symposium) where they can receive their prize and present a paper based on their submission.

The rules are as follows:

1. Entries are welcomed from graduates of or students/trainees on PhD, PsychD/DPsych/DClinPsy (and other postgraduate practitioner courses) and MSc/MA/MPhil courses - who are Section members and - who are currently working on their thesis/portfolio or have submitted their thesis/portfolio within the 12 months prior to 1 September 2004 and - whose thesis or portfolio (or the research element of the portfolio) is relevant to lesbian and gay psychology. Any individual can make only one entry in any year. Prize winners are not eligible to submit further entries in future years. If in doubt about your eligibility, please contact Victoria Clarke, Email V.Clarke@uwe.ac.uk

2. Submissions should be based on a postgraduate thesis or - for graduates of PsychD, DPsych, DClinPsy and other postgraduate practitioner courses - on the research element of a postgraduate portfolio or course. Submissions should be clearly relevant to lesbian and gay psychology. Do not send a copy of the complete thesis or portfolio.

3. Submissions should be prepared in the form of an article for Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review (see Notes for Contributors) and should contain no more than 4000 words (excluding references). Please ensure that your entry conforms exactly to the format of articles in Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review (including the referencing format). However, the cover sheet for entries differs from the cover sheet required for regular Review submissions. All entries should be accompanied by a cover sheet containing the following information:

(a) Your full name and postal address for correspondence and an email address and/or telephone number where you can easily be contacted.
(b) Title of the postgraduate course for which you were registered.
(c) Year in which the postgraduate course was commenced and year of (expected) completion.
(d) Full address of the department and institution at which you were/are registered.
(e) Name(s) and title(s) of supervisor(s).
(f) Finally, please type out and sign the following statement: 'This submission is based on my postgraduate thesis/the research aspect of my postgraduate portfolio or course, supervised by _______.
The submission has not previously been published in whole or in part and it is not currently under submission for publication elsewhere. I am willing for my supervisor to be contacted for further information.'
Also, we require four hard copies of each submission and an electronic version sent as an email attachment, but do not require a version on disk. Entries which do not conform to these requirements cannot be considered and will be returned unread. Note that late submissions cannot be accepted.

4. Submissions should be sent to Victoria Clarke, School of Cognitive, Developmental and Social Psychology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, St Matthias Campus, Oldbury Court Road, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 2JP. Email: Victoria.Clarke@uwe.ac.uk All submissions will be acknowledged.

5. All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by members of the Lesbian & Gay Psychology Section Committee (except for committee members who are eligible to submit entries for the prize), which will choose the winning entry. If committee members conclude that none of the entries are of an appropriate standard, the prize will not be awarded.

6. The winner will be notified by the beginning of November 2004 and the winning submission will be published in Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review in 2005 (as a single-authored article, with the supervisor(s) credited in an acknowledgement). The decision of the Section committee will be final. Feedback will not be provided on unsuccessful entries.

Developmental Section

At present there are no bursaries for this section. However, membership to the section is only £5 per year, on top of the BPS membership fees, with conference fees, including hotel, food and registration, of only £110 and a £50 prize for the best talk.

Social Psychology Section

The Social Psychology Section of the BPS gives bursaries for the annual Social Psychology Conference. £100 is available for postgraduates, and priority is given to those presenting at the conference. Details on how to apply, and application forms are available from:

Dr Richard Mallows
The Hon. Secretary/Treasurer
BPS Social Psychology Section
School of Sports Science and Psychology
College of Ripon and York
York,
YO31 7EY.

To qualify for this, you must be a member of the Social Section of the BPS - membership for students is £3.00 per year, £8 for non-students, on top of the BPS annual membership fees.

Annual Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis

The Social Psychology Section of the BPS has established an annual prize of £500 to be awarded to the PhD student whose thesis is regarded to be an exceptional innovative contribution to social psychology knowledge. Work in any area of social psychology will be eligible.

Theses may be nominated for the award only by the external examiner(s) responsible for awarding the PhD. However, supervisors may suggest to an external examiner that a particular thesis is worthy of consideration for the prize. Nominations should normally be made within two months of the viva taking place.

The winner will receive £500, following a presentation of their paper at the annual Social Psychology Section Conference. The winner will also be asked to submit an article for publication in the Social Psychology Review. Such an article would be subject to the normal referee process.

In order to nominate a thesis, the external examiner should submit a report, which makes the case for the outstanding contribution. In particular, the external examiner is asked to comment on the thesis' theoretical contribution, its methodological rigour and long-term impact on the discipline. A proforma will be supplied to external examiners wishing to make a nomination. The candidate will also need to complete a form detailing the registration details and any publications derived from research carried out for the Doctoral degree and of which the candidate is the sole or senior author. The candidate is also asked to provide an extended abstract of the thesis (not more than 1000 words).

All requests for nomination forms should be addressed to:

Dr Sally Wiggins, Dept of Psychology, University of Strathclyde, Graham Hills Building, 40 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1QE. Email: sally.wiggins@strath.ac.uk Tel: 0141 5484461.

Nominations will be judged by the committee of the Social Psychology Section. Nominations submitted by Friday 18th March 2005 will be considered at the time of the BPS Annual conference.