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SRCD 2025 Biennial Awards

Call for Nominations

Submission site Now Open & Accepting Nominations!

We are seeking nominations for the SRCD 2025 Biennial Awards! The SRCD Senior Distinguished Contributions Awards, Early Career Research Contribution Award, and the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards honor SRCD members’ acclaimed work in developmental science across all career levels. The Awards will be presented at the SRCD 2025 Biennial Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.   

Nominations for the SRCD 2025 Biennial Awards are due September 17, 2024 (11:59 p.m. EDT).

• All nominations must be submitted via the SRCD online portal.
• All nominees must be SRCD members in order to be considered
• All required documents must be submitted in a PDF format.
• Please send inquiries regarding all submission sites to scholar@srcd.org.

Submit your nomination here

SRCD Senior Distinguished Contributions Awards

Established in 1977, this award category recognizes SRCD members who have distinguished themselves over a sustained period of time in at least one domain of research and service and are thus ordinarily given to more senior SRCD members.

Any SRCD member can make a nomination, which should include:

• the nominee's curriculum vitae, and
  • a brief account of a person's education, qualifications, and previous experience
• a nomination letter (pdf format) that explains why the nominee deserves to be considered for a Senior SRCD Distinguished Contributions Award.
  • The letter must specify one or more areas of contribution from a list of categories or from another area of contribution described by the nominator. Click here to see the full list of categories.   

New for Biennial 2025 - Distinguished Contributions to Advancing Research on Child Development in the Majority World Award

Created in 2024 by the international Affairs Committee, this award recognizes distinguished scholarly contributions to advancing the understanding of child development in communities across the Majority World. Eligible nominees are researchers with a graduate degree in their field (at mid-career or senior level) whose research focuses on child development in a community in the Majority World. Researchers living and working in the Majority World will be considered with the highest priority.

Any SRCD member can make a nomination, which should include:

• the nominee's curriculum vitae, and
  • a brief account of a person's education, qualifications, and previous experience
• a nomination letter (pdf format, 2 pages max) that explains why the nominee deserves to be considered for a Senior SRCD Majority World Scholars Award.
  • Detail how the nominee's scholarly contributions (including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and/or book chapters) advance the understanding of child development in the Majority World, including how the research is grounded in local social, cultural, economic, political, educational, healthcare and other relevant contexts, focuses on issues most pertinent to children in those contexts, and utilizes methods that are most suitable.
  • The letter must specify the category of "Distinguished Contributions to Advancing Research on Child Development in the Majority World" as the area of contribution for this senior distinguished award. Click here to see the full list of categories. 

The SRCD Senior Awards Committee will select the Distinguished Award recipient(s).

SRCD Early Career Research Contributions Award

Established in 2022, this award is made to SRCD members who have distinguished themselves as researchers and scholars, as evidenced through research, publications, and scholarly activity. The nominee should be no more than six years beyond the Ph.D. or equivalent degree (i.e., obtained after January 1, 2019).

Any SRCD member can make a nomination, which should include:

• a nomination letter (pdf format) explaining the reasons for the nomination,
• the nominee's curriculum vitae, and
  • a brief account of a person's education, qualifications, and previous experience
• copies of the three papers authored by the nominee (pdf format).

The SRCD Early Career Award Committee will select up to five Early Career Research Scholars for these awards. Recipients of this prestigious award will also receive an honorarium of $1,000 (USD). The five award recipients will have strongly distinguished themselves as researchers and scholars, as evidenced through research, publications, and scholarly activities. 

SRCD Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards

Established in 2008, the SRCD Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards are given to SRCD members for dissertations that are unusually noteworthy. SRCD is soliciting member nominations for the 2025 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards for dissertations completed during the years 2022-2023 (specifically between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023). These awards also come with a $500 honorarium. 

Any SRCD member can make a nomination, which should include:

• a 3-page, single-spaced summary of the dissertation,
• an electronic link to the full dissertation,
• the nominee's curriculum vitae, and
  • a brief account of a person's education, qualifications, and previous experience
• a nomination letter
  • The letter from the nominator/mentor should explain why the dissertation is outstanding and merits the award. Please bear in mind that most dissertations are meritorious; the nomination letter must make the case as to why the nominated dissertation is unusually noteworthy in terms of the quality of the topic, the relevance to the field of developmental science, and the relevance to SRCD's Strategic Goals. In addition, further qualifications of the nominee should be included, such as publications, placement (if a post-doc or Assistant Professor), and the long-term potential contributions to the field. 

The SRCD Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee will select up to five Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Scholars for this prestigious award, which is accompanied by an honorarium of $500 (USD). Selection will be based on criteria that included the quality of the dissertation, publications emerging from the project, and the nominee’s current position and engagement in the field of child development research. 

READ THE FULL CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 

SRCD 2025 Biennial Travel Awards

Application portal is now open and will close on Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. EDT.

There are four (4) types of travel awards are offered as a benefit for SRCD members to support attendance at the SRCD Biennial Meeting. Information about each award is listed below.
General Information

• Applicants may only apply for one travel award per Biennial Meeting.
• Applicants must be a current SRCD member when applying and by the time of the SRCD 2025 Biennial (travel awards will be distributed after the Biennial).
  • Click here to join!
• Travel awards may be used for Biennial-related expenses, as determined by the recipient.
• Awards will be given out as reimbursement after the meeting. There will be timed electronic check-in slots during the meeting. Failure to check in electronically during these times will result in your travel award being revoked.
• Awardees are required to stay in the SRCD-contracted hotel block. Sharing rooms is permitted, but you must be able to present a receipt of your room stay with all guests listed on the hotel invoice.
• The SRCD 2025 Biennial Meeting is an in-person meeting and there are no options to present virtually. All Awardees must attend the in-person meeting.
• NOTE: The Biennial Meeting Program is presented in English.

SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION HERE