ISSBD Grants

About

ISSBD is pleased to announce the results of its CARE EVERYWHERE grant, titled “Understanding and Nourishing the Development of Character Strengths Globally.“ Supported by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, this grant targets research conducted by ISSBD members that aims to understand and nurture character strengths across the lifespan, contributing to a better understanding of what is common and what is specific in caring across the world.

Results

The two awarded projects are:

Socio-Cultural Pathways to Kindness Cultivation Among Thai Adolescents in the Context of Parental Migration.
Yao Fu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Xu Jiang, Temple University, USA

Lebanese Adolescents’ Kindness Orientations toward Internally Displaced People: A Post-war Examination of the Role of Parent and Child Traits, Values, and Attitudes.
Aline Hitti, University of San Francisco, USA
Mona Ayoub, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

More details about the awarded projects and scholars will be shared soon.

We extend our sincere thanks to all applicants for their proposals and congratulate the grant recipients on this outstanding achievement.

The 2 x 2 Grant for Early Career Scholars (ECS) reflects ISSBD’s commitment to supporting early career developmental scholars of all backgrounds worldwide.

The “2 x 2” element means that 2 Early Career Scholars located in 2 different countries or regions (ideally different continents and one applicant from a majority-world/under-represented country) must apply together. Preferably, the co-applicants should also study different disciplines and show complementary research and methodological skills.

 

Eligibility

Each pair of applicants must be:

• ISSBD early career scholars located in different countries or regions (ideally different continents and ideally at least one applicant from a majority-world/under-represented country).
• Have a mentor available.
• Active current doctoral or postdoctoral students at a college or university, or within 7 years of being awarded a doctoral degree (time out for caring responsibilities or other commitments are considered).
• Proposed projects can cover any research study related to a science that cares about a better understanding and/or promotion of human development and flourishing across the lifespan; given the short time period of the grant, proposals for original research, secondary data analysis, and meta-analytic reviews are welcome.
• The importance of proposed project to developmental science needs to be explicitly stated and clear (e.g., by the use of developmental theory to inform the study and interpret results)
• Past collaboration between the applicants would be beneficial.
• A cross-cultural element may be included with a stated rationale for how incorporating diversity and/or data from two different cultures, regions, or perspectives will contribute to the goals of the proposed research project.
• ISSBD membership is required if awarded the grant.

Amount

Up to US$5,000 for 1 year (non-renewable). A maximum of 2 grants will be awarded.