Scholarship Opportunities
Department of Psychology

Young Researchers Award – ISSPD – 2009 – New York City

The International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD) offers an award of $1000 (US) plus travel expenses of up to $1000 to an excellent clinical researcher every two years in conjunction with its biannual Congress. The intention is to stimulate clinical research of personality disorders by young investigators throughout the world.

Guidelines

• Candidates shall either (a) not have passed their 40th birthday by January 1 in the same year as the award or (b) not have been engaged in research for more than 10 years following the end of formal clinical/fellowship training, whichever is later.
• The Department Chairman or any Senior Researcher/Clinician Researcher may submit the name of a nominee.  Only one nominee may be submitted by one person.
• Candidates need not be current members of the ISSPD
• The candidates need only write a brief description of their research, submit 2-3 published or submitted papers, arrange for two letters of support (at least one of the letters must be from a member of the ISSPD), and add a brief curriculum vitae (CV).
• The prize will be awarded based on a body of work rather than a single paper.
• More than one author may be listed on the papers, but the candidate must be the first author. It is assumed that the idea for and the execution of the study are clearly and substantially attributable to the first author. Simple administrative or economic support without scientific contribution does not merit signifcance for consideration here.
• Although the research will not be compared with the work of more senior investigators, special consideration will be given to the originality of the approach and independence of thought evident in the submission.
• The award for 2009 will be presented by the President of the Society at the XIth Congress of the ISSPD at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York City, 21-23 August 2009.
• The winner will be invited to give a special lecture (20-30 minutes) on his/her work.
• The registration fee to the conference will be waived for the winner

Instructions for submission

• Deadline is midnight Eastern Daylight Time (New York City time) on Sunday June 28, 2009.  This is a firm deadline. Submissions should be emailed with all accompanying information to Kenneth R Silk, MD, Secretary of the ISSPD at ksilk@umich.edu.  DO NOT send directly to ISSPD or to the conference.  Materials sent to any other email address cannot be assumed to have reached the right place for consideration.
• Submission of all materials must be done electronically.
• Please send the letter of nomination, the description of the research, the brief CV, the two letters of support and the papers or manuscripts to ksilk@umich.edu by that date.
• Please enclose your name, address, institution, email, fax, phone and other contact information.
• The nominating letter must be from a senior researcher in the field of personality disorders, and that letter may be one of the two letters of support, or it may simply be a nominating letter and then two additional letters of support are needed.
• One of the letters of support must be from an active member of ISSPD.
• Please enclose 2 or 3 papers in which you are first author and which describe your work and research
• Receipt of the submitted information will be confirmed.  If you do not receive confirmation within 48 hours of submission, email Dr. Silk.

REMEMBER: Deadline is midnight, Eastern Standard Time, Sunday June 28, 2009.

Any questions: Please email ksilk@umich.edu

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