Bisexual Foundation Scholarship Award
The Bisexual Foundation Scholarship is an annual fund awarding up to $1000 per award to selected graduate students to advance research on the psychology of bisexuality. This new award recognizes the growing importance of research on bisexuality to the field of LGB issues in psychology and offers concrete support and encouragement to emerging scholars in this field.
Applicants must be currently enrolled full-time in a Department of Psychology at the graduate level. Applications from students in allied disciplines, such as social work and sociology, cannot be considered at this time.
2007 winner
Tera Beaber - Alliant International University
Proposal: Well-being Among Bisexual Females: The Role of Internalized Bi-phobia Stigma Consciousness, Social Support and Self-disclosure
2006 winner
Julia Tomassilli - City University of New York
Proposal: Bi-Negativity and its Predictors in Gay and Lesbian Populations
Past winners
- 2005 Amy Black
Guidelines for Applicants
A complete application consists of:
- 1 cover sheet
- 1 copy of the applicant’s curriculum vitae
- 1 copy of the IRB approval notice (if applicable)
- 6 copies of the application (which consists of the project description and budget worksheet)
- 2 self-addressed stamped envelopes
The project description must be prepared according to APA style (i.e., in accordance with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed.). The project description must be formatted in a standard, 12-point font, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins and may not exceed 10 pages plus references. Applications must also be designed to permit an anonymous review - information identifying the applicant and institution should not appear anywhere in the application other than on the cover sheet, CV and IRB approval.
The project description should generally include: (a) the background and rationale for the project; (b) a brief statement of the relevance of the project to bisexual issues in psychology; (c) the methodology, including descriptions of the participants, instruments, procedures, and data analysis; (d) anticipated or achieved findings; and (e) discussion of the (anticipated) findings and the potential implications of those findings for the field. The methodology section should be explicit regarding the choice of quantitative versus qualitative methods and describe why those methods can better answer the specific research question(s) than would the other methods. The participant section should address the ethnic and cultural diversity of the (anticipated) sample, where appropriate, and the procedures section should describe how ethnic, cultural, and other diversity issues are handled in the project, where relevant.
The project budget must describe anticipated costs for the overall project, other sources of funding for the project (both those already awarded and those applied for), and a statement as to how the Bisexual Foundation Scholarship funds would be spent.
Applications may ONLY be submitted via physical mail. No electronic submissions will be accepted. Applicant packets should be mailed to the postal address below. The blank application cover sheet and blank budget worksheet below are formatted to permit being cut-and-pasted into the word processor file.
Deadline: Applications must be postmarked on or before February 1. Express or Overnight mailing should not be necessary as the postdate on the package should reflect the deadline. Late applications will not be reviewed.
Applications that fail to meet the above guidelines will not be reviewed.
Each proposal shall be evaluated by two or more reviewers using the following criteria: (a) relevance to the objectives of Division 44, (b) completeness, logic, and relevance of the literature review to the development of the research question(s), (c) clarity of the description of the research question(s), (d) appropriateness of the methodology to answering the research question(s) including, for example and where appropriate, sampling methods, sample size, established validity of instruments, and statistical/analytical techniques, (e) overall originality and novelty of the theory, research question(s), and methodology, (f) quality and completeness of the interpretation of the (potential) results, (g) feasibility of the project to produce meaningful results, and (h) relevance of the project for furthering the understanding of bisexual psychology in particular versus sexual orientation in general.
Applicants for the Bisexual Foundation Scholarship Award may ask that their proposal also be considered for Malyon-Smith funding. However, single proposals are not eligible to receive funding from both awards.
The Chair of the Division 44 Scholarships Committee will notify the award recipients. The names of the award recipients will be announced at the APA Convention in August, in the Division 44 newsletter, and on the Division 44 webpage and listserv. Award recipients must submit a 1500-word abstract of the project for publication in the Division 44 Newsletter. Award recipients must acknowledge Division 44 and the Bisexual Foundation funding in all publications and presentations resulting from the project. Award recipients are also encouraged to submit proposals to present the project’s findings at the Annual APA Convention.
For answers to questions about applications and to submit a completed application:
Cisco Sánchez, Ph.D.
Department of Human Genetics
UCLA School of Medicine
695 Charles Young Dr. S #5524
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7088
Lab phone: (310)267-2456
Fax: (310)794-5446
Email