ISSI is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the 2022 Mini Research Grant Program. This program is aimed at providing research support for current Ph.D. students and people who have received their Ph.D. within the last 10 years in the areas of self and identity, broadly defined.

We will award up to 3 mini grants at a maximum of $1,000 each. The award funds are to be used to cover research expenses after the fact (i.e., the research should not have been conducted already, but the grant funds can only be used to reimburse documented, already-paid-for expenses). Examples of appropriate research expenses are participant compensation via online data collection platforms (e.g., MTurk, Prolific, CloudResearch), research-related equipment, software, etc. Salary- and travel-related expenses cannot be reimbursed.

Criteria for funding are: (a) Soundness of research question, design, and planned analysis; and (b) relevance and significance of research to the field of self and identity. Please contact Cami Johnson (camille.johnson@sjsu.edu) or Laurie O’Brien (lobrien2@tulane.edu) with any questions. 

You must submit your completed application (see application details below) via this Google form by this year’s deadline of midnight of Saturday, October 15, 2022.

See pdf document (below) for additional information regarding eligibility and submission requirements.

Congratulations Dr. Robert J. Vallerand for being the recipient of the 2022 Distinguished Lifetime Career Award. This award is made annually to recognize a scientist who has made sustained and important contributions to our understanding of self and identity throughout their academic career. 

Dr. Vallerand will present a distinguished address at the 2023 SPSP Self and Identity Pre-Conference (February 23rd in Atlanta, GA), along with submitting an Award Address paper to the journal, Self & Identity. 

Thank you to this year's selection committee: Shira Gabriel [Chair], Angel Gomez, & Cathy R. Cox.

Congratulations Dr. Marina Milyavskaya for being the recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Early Career Award. This award is made annually to recognize and encourage a distinguished junior scientist who has made outstanding theoretical and empirical contributions to the scientific study of self and identity. 

If you have an announcement that you would like to include, please email your request to Cathy Cox (c.cox@tcu.edu).