Division 54 Awards and Grants

The Society of Pediatric Psychology offers a number of opportunities for recognition for outstanding achievement across a range of professional activities.

Awards

These awards are available for trainees as well as for psychologists in various stages of their careers. Please visit the following links for application deadlines and instructions.

• C. Eugene Walker Education Award in Pediatric Psychology
  The award is available to any graduate student, intern or postdoctoral fellow who is a member of the Society of Pediatric Psychology and enrolled in a training program involving substantial instruction in pediatric psychology.

• Lee Salk Distinguished Service Award
  The award honors faculty in pediatric psychology who mentor students in an exemplary way, providing professional advice and guidance through various phases of the graduate program.

• Logan Wright Distinguished Research Award
  Nominees need not be SPP members nor necessarily active in SPP activities, but they should be or should have been on the front line of active, productive research in the field of pediatric psychology.

• Martin P. Levin Award for Mentorship
  The award honors faculty in pediatric psychology who mentor students in an exemplary way, providing professional advice and guidance through various phases of the graduate program.

• Routh Early Career Award in Pediatric Psychology
  This award recognizes recognize significant contributions of a member of SPP to the field of pediatric psychology in research, clinical training and service.

• Student Poster Award
  This award honors the first author of a poster to be presented during the Division 54 poster session at the APA Convention.

• Student Research Award
  This research competition is designed to encourage and reward quality research on issues related to pediatric psychology and health care of children.

• Student Travel Award
  This award is designed to help the first author of a poster or paper to be presented during Division 54 programming at the APA convention or at any Division 54 sponsored regional or national meeting.

Society of Pediatric Psychology sponsors a number of grants that are intended to facilitate high quality empirical research in topic areas that are central to the mission of the society. Some grants are available to both students and professionals. Others are targeted toward our student members. Please visit the links below for more information and application instructions.

• Diversity Research Grant
  Funds are available to conduct pediatric psychology research that features diversity-related variables, such as race/ethnicity, gender, culture, sexual orientation, language differences, socioeconomic status and/or religiosity.

• Lizette Peterson-Homer Injury Prevention Grant
  Grant which supports research into psychological and behavioral aspects of the prevention of injuries in children and adolescents.

• Marion and Donald Routh Student Research Grant
  This grant is designed to enable a student member of the Society of Pediatric Psychology to pursue research scholarship.