2009 SRCD Biennial Meeting
SRCD Call for Nominations: Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
SRCD is soliciting nominations for a new award: Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award completed during the years 2007-2008. This award comes with a $500 honorarium and will be presented at the SRCD Biennial Meeting in Denver, April 2-4, 2009, at an SRCD awards ceremony. SRCD seeks nominations for this prestigious award from the mentor of the dissertation thesis, along with supporting documents.
Please forward your nominations to pacynski@umich.edu no later than December 1, 2008. Please include a 5-page summary of the dissertation (five pages does not include figures and references), an electronic link to the full dissertation, the nominee's curriculum vitae, and a letter from the nominator/mentor explaining why the dissertation is outstanding and merits the award. Please bear in mind that most dissertations are meritorious; the nominating letter must make the case as to why the nominated dissertation is unusually noteworthy. The qualifications of the nominee in terms of his/her long term potential contribution to the field, based on the unusual distinction of the dissertation, should also be addressed.
Please send all inquiries regarding the award to Lonnie Sherrod, Executive Director of SRCD, at sherrod@srcd.org.
SECC Dissertation Funding Award Call!
The Student and Early Career Committee (SECC) of the Society for Research in Child Development is pleased to announce the creation of an annual competition for student funding for dissertation research. Up to five non-renewable awards in the amount of $2,000 (maximum) will be given for dissertation research proposals that merit special recognition and display the strong potential to contribute to the field of child development. Submissions should be in the proposal stage (i.e., not completed), and money is to be used for research costs or professional development related to the proposed dissertation project. The award also includes free membership to SRCD for one year.
The first annual awards will be presented at SRCD's Biennial Meeting in April of 2009. Award recipients will be acknowledged and asked to give a presentation based on the research proposal as part of the Student and Early Career Council (SECC) programming at the 2011 SRCD Biennial Meeting in Montreal. Award recipients also will be featured in a Developments newsletter article.
For more information about eligibility criteria and submission guidelines, go to the Student and Early Career section of the SRCD website (http://www.srcd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=454). Electronic submissions may be submitted after September 30th. The submission deadline is December 1, 2008 by 5 PM EST.
