The Women and Psychology Interest Group invites submissions for the Elaine Dignan Award.
The Elaine Dignan Award recognises the contribution to psychology and to the Society made by Queensland psychologist Elaine Dignan, a feminist activist and public sector psychologist who died of cancer in 1990.
The Award encourages research about women; women’s studies in psychology; or professional work of a psychological nature involving women, which addresses gender and other social attributes (e.g. race, class, sexuality) and considers their psychological effects.
Administration
- The Elaine Dignan Award is the responsibility of the Women and Psychology Interest Group, who will also fund the Award.
- The National Committee of Women and Psychology Interest Group will appoint a selection committee made up of at least three members of the Interest Group to be responsible for recommending an appropriate Award recipient to the Board.
- Supervisors of activities, projects or papers submitted for the Award will not be eligible to serve as members of the selection committee.
- The award will be presented at the Annual General Meeting of the Women and Psychology Interest Group.
- The selection committee may recommend that more than one Award be granted if there are nominations of sufficient merit and sufficient funds to fully support additional Awards.
- If in any year the selection committee considers that there is no suitable candidate the Elaine Dignan Award will not be made
Eligibility
- Nominees must be psychologists, studying to become psychologists, or have a substantial or major part of their training in psychology.
- Nominees need not be members of the APS
Nomination process
- A call for nominations for the Elaine Dignan Award will be called for annually via APS digital communication channels.
- Nominations are to be submitted via the APS Award Nomination Portal below by the closing date set in the call for nominations.
- Candidates may nominate themselves or be nominated by their supervisor or a Member of the Society. Self-nominations should be accompanied by at least one letter of support from an APS Member.
To nominate for this award, click here.
Selection criteria
In judging nominees for the Award, the selection committee will consider the merit of an activity, project or paper, or a significant contribution concerning women and psychology having regard to:
- the extent to which the activity, project, or paper contributed to any or all of the aims of the Women and Psychology Interest Group; and
- the extent to which the activity benefited women in increased knowledge, skills and abilities, or general well-being.
Value of award
Successful candidates for the Elaine Dignan Award will:
- receive an award of $500; and
- receive a certificate; and
- will be invited to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Women and Psychology Interest Group in the year following the receipt of the Elaine Dignan Award to present the activity, project, or paper for which they received the Award.
Closing date
Nominations close 31 October.
To nominate for this award, click here.
For any further information, please contact:
Member Groups Administrator
Tel: 1800 333 497
Email: [email protected]
Previous recipients
2023 |
Professor Jill Astbury |
2022 |
Not awarded |
2021 |
Dr Susie Allanson |
2019 |
Mrs Frances Bilbao |
2018 |
Dr Amy Bannatyne |
2017 |
Dr Raelynn Alvarez Wicklein |
2016 |
Dr Khandis Blake and Charlene Halfhyde |
2015 |
Dr Gemma Sharp and Dr Sally Northfield |
2014 |
Amy Dryden
Young Women’s Construction and Subjective Experiences of Their Post-Cancer Fertility
|
2012 |
Dr Andrea Shoebridge
Single women: Transition in theory and practice
|
2011 |
Catherine D’Arcy – Mothers Living Well project
and Tamara May, with Professor Nicole Reinhart and Professor Kim Cornish, for research on Autism in girls
|
2010 |
Carmel O’Brien, Karen Carlson and Liz Mulder
|
2009 |
Elizabeth Short
|
2008 |
Not awarded |
2007 |
Not awarded |
2006 |
Dr Isabel Fernandez
|
2005 |
Parvani Pinnewala
|
2004 |
Precilla Choi
|
2003 |
Dr Kathryn Gow and Dr Helen Vidler
|
2002 |
Dori Wisniewski
|
2001 |
Peta Hartmann
|
2000 |
Not awarded
|
1999 |
Rosemary Williams
|
1998 |
Joan Beckwith and Jeanette Shopland
|
1997 |
Kathy Esson
|
1996 |
Hoa Pham and Dawn Baker
|
1995 |
Patricia Strong
|
1994 |
Heather Gridley
|
1993 |
Ann Aboud
|
1992 |
Una Gault
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