The SIOP Small Grant Program provides tangible support from SIOP to its members for research-related activities, helps guide research activities in areas of interest to both practitioners and academicians within SIOP, and fosters cooperation between academicians and practitioners by supporting research that has the potential to advance both knowledge and practice in applied areas of interest to all members of SIOP.

$30,000 for grant funding is available. Although there is no minimum amount per grant proposal, the maximum award for any one grant is $10,000.

 

General Procedures and Policies

An overarching goal of the Small Grant Program is to provide funding for research investigating topics of interest to both academicians and practitioners. Thus, considerable weight will be given to whether the proposal consists of a cooperative effort between academics and practitioners.

The grant submission package must include a grant proposal (see formatting guidelines below).

The principal investigator of the project must be a SIOP member (which includes Student Members) and must submit the research proposal. Proposals submitted with a Student as the principal investigator must include a letter of endorsement from a SIOP professional member.

If the proposal has an organizational partner for the research, it is strongly recommended that a letter recognizing this support is included in the grant submission package to ensure their commitment to the project.

To encourage wide participation and a large variety of individuals and institutions involved in the program, an individual can only be involved in one proposal per review cycle per grant. In addition, individuals who received a SIOP Small Grant within the last two years are ineligible. Before submitting a grant proposal, check with each of your co-authors to ensure that neither of these requirements are being violated.

When submitting application materials, applicants will also be asked if they are being investigated, or have been found responsible, for misconduct prohibited in SIOP’s Anti-Harassment Policy and to provide a brief explanation if this is the case.

 

Guidelines for Proposal Budgets

The explicit policy of the SIOP Small Grant Program is that grant funds may not be used for overhead or indirect costs. In the committees’ experience, most universities will waive overhead and indirect costs under two circumstances: (a) the grant is relatively modest in size, and/or (b) the awarding institution (i.e., SIOP Foundation) does not allow it. If the above statement disallowing funds to be used for overhead is insufficient, a Chair of the Awards Committee will provide additional documentation and evidence explicitly recognizing this policy. In addition, grant funds may not be used to pay for travel to the SIOP conference.

The SIOP Small Grant can be used in conjunction with other funding for a larger-scale project. If this is the case, the proposal should describe the scope of the entire project, the entire budget, and the portion of the budget for which SIOP award money will be spent.

In addition, grant funds should not be used to pay for ancillary costs related to the project (i.e., publication or presentations at conferences, such as open access and registration/ travel costs).

Criteria for Eligibility

At least three members of the SIOP Small Grants Subcommittee will evaluate each proposal based on the following criteria:

  • Significance:  Does the proposal address an important problem relevant to both the academic and practitioner membership of SIOP? Will the proposal advance knowledge and practice in a given area?
  • Appropriateness of budget:  Is there clear justification and rationale for the expenditure of the award monies? Can the proposed work be accomplished with the funds requested or is there evidence that additional expenses will be covered by other sources of funding?
  • Research approach: An assessment of the overall quality of the conceptual framework, design, methods, and planned analyses.
  • Innovation:  Does the proposed research employ novel concepts, approaches or methods? Does the proposal research have original and innovative aims?
  • Aimed at a wide audience:  The proposal should be clear, understandable, and communicable to a wide audience and have implications for all members of SIOP (academics and practitioners).
  • Realistic timeframe: Likelihood that the project can be completed within 2 years of award date.
  • Academic–practitioner partnership: Does the grant involve a partnership between an academic and a practitioner?

Call for Nominations

Format of the Proposal

The proposal should adhere to APA formatting guidelines and should include the following sections:

  • Title Page (include the names of all authors of the grant proposal)
  • Abstract
  • Literature review and rationale for the project
  • Method—including information about the sample, measures, data collection strategies, and analytical strategies
  • Implications for both academicians and practitioners
  • References, Tables/Figures and Appendices
  • Project plan, defined deliverables, and budget

Proposals should not exceed 10 pages of text (this does not include: title page, abstract, references, tables and figures, and appendices). The proposal should be double spaced and use a 12-point font and 1” margins. The proposal must be a single document, either a Word document or a .pdf file.

If applicable, the names of all participants must be entered during the online nomination/application process. Please ensure that all participants in your nomination have current information in their siop.org profiles. All nonmembers should create an account at siop.org (creating accounts is not equivalent to applying for membership).

All proposals need to certify, by signature or other means, that the research will be carried out in compliance with ethical standards with regard to the treatment of human subjects (e.g., institutional review board or signed statement that the research adheres to the accepted professional standards regarding the treatment of human subjects).

 

Deliverables

All grant recipients will be required to deliver a final report to the SIOP office within 2 years of the date of the award.

Grant recipients should be aware that a synopsis of their research will be placed on the SIOP Web site. This synopsis will be of such a nature so as not to preclude subsequent publication of the research.

Recipients are encouraged to submit the results of their research for presentation at SIOP’s annual conference.

Recipients should acknowledge funding from the SIOP Foundation in any presentations or publications resulting from the grant-funded research.

Current Award Recipients

Karyssa A. Courey & Frederick L. Oswald,
Perceptions of Statistical Evidence When Evaluating Evidence of Disparate Impact and Disparate Treatment
Lawrence Houston III, Brett H. Neely, Jr., & Timothy G. Kundro, Horatio Taylor
Ban the Box or Not? A New Perspective on When Self-Disclosure of Criminal Records is the Best Strategy for Gaining Employment
Emma Paisley Shultz, Dr. Charles A. Scherbaum, & Dr. Paul Agnello
The Little Things Matter: How Non-Job-Relevant Factors Influence Applicant Evaluations in Virtual Interviews

Award Type

Grants & Programs, Research Grants

Previous Award Recipients

Dr. Kristen M. Shockley, Natalie Crawford, Hope Dodd, Aqsa Dutli, Dr. Katina Sawyer
Auburn University
2024
Elisabeth Rose Silver, Dr. Michelle (Mikki) Hebl, Dr. Fred Oswald
Rice University
2024
Ashley Sylvara
Kansas State University
2024
Chu Chu, Tianjun Sun, and Bo Zhang
Lafayette College
2023
Jeffrey Olenick, Kristen D. Eggler, Ajay Gupta, and Eric A. Surface
University of Georgia
2023
Cassandra Phetmisy and Danielle D. King
University of Maryland - College Park
2023
Allison S. Gabriel, Jamie J. Ladge, Danielle E. Bradley, Elizabeth E. Stillwell, and Rebecca L. MacGowan
Boston College Carroll School of Management
2022
Caitlin Porter, Katelyn Cavenaugh, and Kristin L. Cullen-Lester
University of Memphis
2022
Liza Y. Barnes, Kristen P. Jones, Alex P. Lindsey, Brent J. Lyons, Sabrina D. Volpone, and Lynda Zugec
University of Colorado Boulder