Student resources

• American Psychological Association (APA):  The APA provides access to information about a large number of funding sources, ranging from federal grants to student award by different APA divisions.
• American Psychological Foundation (APF): APF offers a number of scholarships for students. They range from $2,000 to $5,000. Students at any stage of graduate study are encouraged to apply. The purpose of the scholarship program is to assist graduate students of psychology with research costs associated with the master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation.
• American Psychology-Law Association (AP-LS): AP-LS as an organization has funding opportunities for social psychologists interested in the law.
• Association for Psychological Science (APS). APS collects links to a number of different national and international funding programs.
• American Sociological Association (ASA): ASA offers a number of grants and fellowships.
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program:  A variety of NSF fellowships exist.
• Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI): This organization offers grants and awards to social psychologists for a range of different purposes
• Western Social Science Association: This organization also offers awards for best paper/poster and other things. 

Comprehensive lists of funding sources available to graduate students across the U.S.

• The Graduate School, University of Nevada, Reno funding list
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville Collection: UTK makes available a collection of links to websites & organizations that offer various grants types of graduate funding.

• American Council of Learned Societies:  The American Council of Learned Societies offers a variety of different dissertation grants/fellowships.
• APA Dissertation Research Award: The APA offers a dissertation research award. They have a number of grants (about 30-40) for $1,000 each; there are also several larger grants up to $5,000 each. 
• American Educational Research Association: Proposal are encouraged from a variety of education fields or fields doing education-related research. It is a one-year fellowship and is worth $25,000. See website for criteria/eligibility.
• Bilinski Fellowship: This fellowship is offered every year to help fund the final year of the doctoral students within a Ph.D. program associated with the College of Liberal Arts. Students can ask the director of the program for more information about the fellowship. The deadline to apply is usually in early March.
• Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology (COGDOP). In conjunction with the American Psychological Foundation (APF), COGDOP offers over 20 graduate research scholarships to support dissertation research
• Ford Foundation: This fellowship is offered every year. The stipend is $21,000. 
• Horowitz Foundation: The Horowitz Foundation offers grants for graduate students to work on their dissertations. They offer $7,500 ($5,000 is awarded initially and $2,500 is awarded upon completion of the project). 
• National Science Foundation (NSF): The NSF website has some information about dissertation funding. Some of the programs are listed separately below, but the website has a comprehensive view of what is offered.
  • Decision, Risk and Management Sciences: It supports research “directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society.” 
  • Law & Social Sciences: The website says that the program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems/rules.
  • Political Science Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Areas include, but are not limited to: American government and politics; comparative government and politics; international relations; political behavior; political economy; and political institutions. 
  • Science, Technology, and Society: This focuses on a variety of different science, technology, and society (STS) topics. For instance, it includes interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equality, governance, and policy issues. 
  • Sociology Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards: This is for dissertation projects. It focuses on a variety of different topics, so it is not limited to just one type of research. 
• P.E.O. Scholar Award: One-time, competitive, merit-based awards intended to recognize and encourage academic excellence and achievement by women in doctoral-level programs. These awards provide partial support for study and research. P.E.O. Scholars have demonstrated their ability to make significant contributions in their chosen field of study, having assumed leadership positions in university academics, scientific research, medicine, law, performing arts, international economics, history, literature, government and other demanding fields. The award is $20,000.
• SPSP Heritage Dissertation Research Award: Each year, the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology awards six grants of $2,000 each. At least two grants are in personality psychology and at least two grants are in social psychology.
• Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies:  “The WW Women’s Studies Fellowships support the final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses topics of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways.” Winners receive $5,000 to be used for expenses connected with completing their dissertations (e.g., research-related travel, data work/collection, and supplies).

• American Council of Learned Societies: The American Council of Learned Societies offers a variety of different grants for research.
• American Educational Research Association: Research grants are available for various education research fields, as well as fields and disciplines engaged in education-related research. Minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. “Awards for research grants are up to $25,000 for a 1-year project or up to $35,000 for 2-year projects.” See the website for additional eligibility criteria.
• American Psychological Foundation
  • Wayne F. Placek Grants: This grant is designed to “support empirical research from all fields of the behavioral and social sciences on any topic related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender issues.” Grant is up to $10,000.
  • Violet and Cyril Franks Scholarship: This is designed to “support graduate-level scholarly projects that use a psychological perspective to help understand and reduce the stigma associated with mental illness.” The scholarship amount is up to $5,000.
• American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS): AP-LS offers various grants/awards, and includes a Grant-in-Aid and the Diversity in Psychology and Law Research Award.
• American Sociological Association (ASA): ASA offers various grants/awards (e.g., a Community Action Research Initiative Grant and Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline [FAD]).
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP): SPSP offers small research grants up to $1,500.
• Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI): Grants-in-aid (up to $1,000 for graduate students) fund research projects related to SPSSI’s mission. Funds are typically matched by the Graduate School of the University of Nevada, Reno.
  
  • Clara Mayo grant in support of Masters’ theses and pre-dissertation research on sexism, racism, or prejudice
  • This organization also offers funding for travel.
• Society for the Scientific Study of Religion: Offers research grants to graduate students. Applicants must have been a member of the society at least one year prior to their application.

• American Sociological Association: The American Sociological Association offers a minority fellowship program designed specifically for doctoral students of color. The annual stipend is $18,000. 
• Ford Foundation pre-doctoral fellowships: Just as the Ford Foundation offers dissertation fellowships, it also offers pre-doctoral fellowships. 
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The GRFP provides funding for three years in addition to research expenses.

• American Psychology-Law Society: Offers a travel award to fund travel to AP-LS every year. Students have won up to $500.
• American Sociological Association: The American Sociological Association offers a few travel awards/grants.
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP): SPSP offers a number of different grants to graduate students, undergraduate students and scholars to attend its annual conference.
• Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI): Offers funds to travel to and attend SPSSI meetings.
• Western Psychological Association: There is a Psi Chi WPA regional travel grant. This grant will help cover travel costs to the conference. Recent awards have been $225.
• Western Social Science Association: This organization offers a travel grant to attend its annual meeting. There is also a grant available to waive the conference registration fees for local students.

The Social Psychology Club is comprised of members of the interdisciplinary social psychology graduate program, as well as others interested in the area of social psychology (both psychological and sociological). The club offers educational, social, and service events to its members.

Contact us at unrsocpsychclub@gmail.com for more info.

The Social Psychology and Law Club is a group for graduate students who are interested in the intersection of social psychology, law, and the legal system. The purpose of the group is to provide a setting in which students can form academic relationships with other students who share the same interest, while fostering a collaborative environment to promote individual and group research projects.

The group currently meets a few times a semester to discuss current and future research, recent and relevant literature in the field of social psychology and law, and to spend time providing feedback for students' projects.

All graduate students are welcome to participate from various backgrounds (psychology, sociology, business, criminal justice, communications studies, etc.). The group consists of students from the first-year of their doctoral program to dissertation-phase graduate students.

The Stats Club is recognized by the Graduate Student Association at the University of Nevada, Reno. Any graduate student interested in learning and applying different types of statistical analyses is welcome and encouraged to join, although students from the interdisciplinary social psychology graduate program have historically been particularly active in the club.

Each semester, Stats Club members decide to review specific statistical methods (e.g. OLS regression, SEM), topics (e.g., dealing with missing data, power analyses) and statistical programs (e.g., SPSS, Stata, Amos) during weekly, three hour meetings.

At Stats Club meetings, members may also practice discussing their statistical results for conference presentations, or bring their data to solicit feedback on analyses from fellow stats club members.

The Stats Club current and alumni members are also available via an online google group, from which members can receive statistical support, and can share statistical insights.