Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology

The articles must meet the following requirements:

• The articles must have been published in refereed journals (normally those covered by Psychological Abstracts), or be in press.
• The nominee must be either the sole or senior (first) author of the articles concerned.
• The nominator must confirm that the research reported in the articles was carried out by the nominee as research for a Doctoral degree in psychology which was passed by a university in the UK normally not more than two years before the date when the articles were accepted for publication.
• A candidate may only be nominated for the award if the doctoral degree was awarded no earlier than three years ago.

• Nominators must declare all personal and professional conflicts of interest e.g., if nominating a spouse/partner or other relation.
• A conflict of interest will not prevent acceptance of the nomination but will be borne in mind by the awarding panel when considering the nomination.
• If we become aware of an undeclared conflict of interest, the nomination will be withdrawn.

The awarding panel will base its judgement on published psychology articles.

Nominators must send copies of what they judge to be the nominee's two most outstanding and significant publications reporting the research carried out for the candidate's doctoral degree.

Applications will be assessed according to:

• Rigour, originality and significance of the submitted research
• Originality
• Significance
• The extent to which achievements are realistic within the constraints of doctoral training