Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology

Any changes will be applied when the award is open to nomination.

The awarding panel may decide not to make an award in any given year.

Please note: eligibility and assessment criteria are subject to change.

Nominators should include:

• A 1,500-word nomination statement outlining why the nominee's work is outstanding and why they should be considered for the award
• Copies of what they judge to be the candidate's two most outstanding and significant publications reporting the research carried out for the candidate's doctoral degree
• A copy of the nominee's summary CV
• Details of three potential assessors (the nominator should not be an assessor)

Assessment criteria

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
• Extent to which achievements are realistic within the constraints of doctoral training

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

Applicants must declare all personal and professional conflicts of interest.

A conflict of interest will not prevent acceptance of the application but will be borne in mind by the awarding panel.

If we become aware of a conflict of interest that has not been declared, we will withdraw the application.