Section for the Advancement of Women Dissertation and Thesis Award

SAW is pleased to announce two $200 Dissertation and Thesis Awards for proposed original research by Counseling Psychology graduate students. The research must focus on issues that pertain to lives of women and girls. Special consideration will be given to those research projects that focus on women and girls from marginalized groups because of their race, ethnicity, immigrant status, socioeconomic class, sexual orientation, disability, age, and other factors.

To meet the criteria for award, an applicant must be a student in good standing at a graduate program in Counseling Psychology. Membership in SAW is encouraged but not required to receive this award (please see membership information at http://www.education.ucsb.edu/tisrael/SAW/main.html

Application Guidelines:
1.      Application must be an original research project proposed by a student for her or his dissertation or thesis requirement.
2.      Application must follow APA style guidelines and be double-spaced.
3.      Research can be quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods.
4.      The application should include the following parts:

Part One: Cover page (1 page) with the following information:
First Author Name, Address, City, State, Zip Code, and Country (if not the US)
First Author Phone number(s), E-mail address
Program Name and Year in Program
Student Affiliate of (APA? Division 17? SAW?)

Full Title (or working title) of Project:

Other authors:

Please send this cover page electronically as an MS Word attachment to your Academic Advisor or Program Director, and ask him/her to forward it to the Student Awards Committee Chair with an email verifying that the information is correct and that you are a student in good standing in the Program. The Awards Chair is Sue Morrow at morrow@ed.utah.edu.

Part Two: Proposal
a. Cover Page as described above.
b. Rationale for the study and research questions or hypotheses addressed by this study (maximum 2 pages). Please place full title at the top of the first page.
c. A detailed Method section that discusses participants, data collection, research design, instruments, and approaches to data analysis (maximum 5 pages).
d. Rationale for how this research meets the goals of the Section for the Advancement of Women (please see SAW website to learn more about goals from the bylaws posted at http://www.education.ucsb.edu/tisrael/SAW/main.html (maximum 1 page)
e. Approximate timeline of the study and a brief budgetary statement of how the award may be spent (maximum 1 page)
f. Application must be RECEIVED by November 1, 2004
g. All notifications of receipt of your materials and awards will be given by e-mail.
h. Final notification of the award will be announced by December 15, 2004.

Please send your complete proposal electronically as an MS Word or document (Times New Roman, 12 point) to Sue Morrow at morrow@ed.utah.edu.