Grants, Awards and Travel Funds
SPR Research Fellowship Training Award
Due August 1, 2012, for funding to begin early October 2012.
The Education and Training Committee and the Committee to Promote Student Interests are pleased to announce that SPR will once again provide Research Fellowship Training Awards. The award will allow students or postdocs to obtain mentorship/training in psychophysiological assessment/analysis with experts in the field, which they could not get at their home institution. This could involve travel to a remote site or travel expenses for a remote mentor to visit the applicant's lab. Each application may include a budget of up to $5000 (although smaller budgeted applications are encouraged and would allow for more applications to be funded). Applications are short (3-5 pages) and funds will be available in early October 2012. Up to $500 of these funds can be used to defray SPR conference travel costs. Recipients will be announced at the Saturday Business Luncheon at the annual meeting in New Orleans. Eligibility for the award requires attendance at the 2012 SPR meeting; awardees should plan to attend the business lunch unless religious restrictions prevent them from doing so. The deadline for applications will be August 1, 2012. Click here to download an application. [DOC format, 77kb]
Travel Grants for the 2012 Annual Meeting
GRANTS TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING OF
THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH (SPR)
New Orleans, Louisiana (USA), September 19 - 23, 2012
DEADLINE FOR GRANT APPLICATION: APRIL 2
AIM OF THE GRANTS:
The aim of the SPR travel grant program is to encourage psychophysiologists from developing countries in Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe to become members of the SPR and to participate actively in the annual meetings. The purpose of these awards is to permit the attendance at the SPR meeting of promising psychophysiologists who do not have funding resources in their own countries (e.g., because the scientific infra-structure of support is limited or absent), and to help bring into the larger community of scientists psychophysiological researchers from countries or regions where colleagues are sparse. The awards include a travel grant up to $1,500, free registration fee for the 2012 conference, and free SPR membership for 2012. A number of grants are available, but applications are evaluated competitively based on merit, geographical distribution and other factors.
CONDITIONS OF APPLICATION:
(a) Applicants must submit an abstract for a poster, symposium, or panel discussion. Instructions and online submission information are available at the SPR web site: www.sprweb.org.
(b) (b) The abstract must report research within the domain of human psychophysiology using physiological measures of central (e.g., EEG, MEG, ERP, fMRI etc.) or peripheral nervous system functions (e.g., somatic reflexes, autonomic activity, endocrine, immune functions etc.).
(c) Applicants at research centers or universities located in Latin America, Asia (except Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan) or Eastern Europe are eligible. If sufficient funds are available, scholars from these areas who are temporarily working in economically advantaged countries will be considered.
(d) Applicants must either be a member of the SPR or have applied for membership.
(e) The grantees of last year are eligible to apply again although candidates who have not yet received an award have higher priority.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Candidates should send their grant application before APRIL 2, 2012, via e-mail to spr2011@gi.hum.titech.ac.jp (Asia & Eastern Europe) or vilajaime@yahoo.es (Latin America). The following materials should be attached:
(a) A summary in English of their curriculum vitae which should include: publications and congresses/symposia/workshops/courses attended abroad indicating presentation type (oral or poster), year of degree, year and grants received, and current position (student or non-student, and university or institute name including that of studying abroad).
(b) A copy of the abstract that will be submitted for the 52nd annual meeting via the SPR web site: www.sprweb.org. Note that the final decision regarding each candidate depends on abstract acceptance by program committee.
(c) A copy of membership application if not currently a member. (Although no payment is required, please indicate that you are applying for the SPR travel grant in the "Method of Payment" section of the SPR membership application form. If a non awarded candidate wishes to attend the meeting his/her application will be considered upon payment of fees.
SPR Student Travel Awards for Undergraduate and Graduate Student Psychophysiologists
The intent of the SPR Student Travel Awards is to assist students without other means of travel support to attend and present research at the SPR annual meeting. For the 2012 meeting in New Orleans, 30 awards will be available for student members presenting at the SPR meeting. Among these 30 awards, 15 awards of $500 will be reserved for North American members, and 15 awards of $1000 will be reserved for non-North American members.