Each year at the Annual Meeting, several posters authored by trainees are chosen for the Trainee Poster Award.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion SPR Trainee Poster Award
This award will highlight up to two posters that focus on psychophysiological processes in the context of challenges, experiences, or systemic barriers faced by Equity-Seeking Groups, broadly defined. Among other topics, this research may aim to uncover mechanisms underlying disparities or propose strategies to improve outcomes for these populations.
Update 06/20/24: Suggested methods and processes for determining recipients of the SPR Trainee Poster Award
This report attempts to start a document with standardized processes and methods that hopefully can be refined by future committees. The goal of the proposed methods and processes is to heighten transparency, increase the clarity of the process for the committee members themselves, and maintain/increase fairness. The intended audience is future program committees and trainee poster award committees as well as future past-presidents of SPR, who traditionally are in charge of selecting posters, judging them, and determining the winners.
Eligibility
- You must be the first author on a poster submission.
- You must not have received a PhD, MD, or PsyD at the time of submission.
- You must be a trainee member of SPR, or apply for membership by April 28, 2026.
Membership
Please note the requirement that you must be an SPR member or have applied for membership by April 28. The reason for this is that the committee must be able to identify clearly which trainee members are eligible for consideration in order to plan the review and judging of the posters. For this reason, it is not possible to consider trainees who join SPR at the time of on-site conference registration.
Consideration
To be considered, simply submit an abstract for a poster presentation at the Annual Meeting by the submission deadline.
Award Criteria
The Program Committee will pre-select several dozen posters, based on the submitted abstracts. One or more judges from the Trainee Poster Award Committee will review each candidate’s abstract and have a conversation with the trainee author. In reviewing the poster, the committee will look for a clear statement of the research problem; sound methods and statistical analysis; the appropriateness and clarity of figures and graphics; and a concise and well-organized presentation. Additional criteria will include the trainee’s grasp of the findings and the ability to describe the work to both non-experts and experts.
*Formerly the Student Poster Award
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