The SASP Small Grant Scheme is designed to support collaborative research between SASP postgraduate members from different universities. Funding will be made available for research that emerges from participation in the SASP summer school or for other collaborative research between SASP postgraduate students at different Australasian universities.
Eligibility and Criteria
To be eligible, the grant application team must meet the following criteria:
- At least two of the applicants need to be SASP postgraduate members. This criteria does not apply (and only one applicant needs to be a SASP postgraduate member) when other applicants are SPSP, EASP, or AASP postgraduate members who took part in the SASP summer school.
- The research team needs to consist of postgraduate students at more than one university.
Grant proposals will judged on:
- Its scientific merit. For example, how well is the research designed and does it contribute to the field?
- Support and advisory. Whether the research team can rely on the support and advice from a more senior academic. This person needs to be named in the proposal and can be either a SASP member or a former summer school teacher.
- Justification of the budget. Expenditure can include participant payment, equipment or other costs associated with conducting the research. Travel costs can not be part of the budget.
- Collaboration. The extent to which the research involves collaboration across universities.
- Financial need. Would it be easy for the applicants to obtain funding from elsewhere to conduct their research?
Successful applicants are required to provide a brief report within three months of completion of the research. This may including presenting at the next SASP conference.
Previous recipients
Previous recipients of the SASP postgraduate small grant scheme are listed below.
| Researcher Team | Academic Advisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Chemke-Dreyfus (The University of Queensland), Christienne Javier (The University of Queensland), Terise Broodryk (Victoria University of Wellington) | Progressive Privilege Paralysis | |
| Dana Trenaman, (Queensland University of Technology), Alisa Cabacungan (Central Mindanao University), Yee Man Branda Yu (The University of Hong Kong) | Latent profiles of parent-child relationships and decision making for YouTube viewing | |
| Leah Smolarek (Flinders University), Emily Mullins (The University of Adelaide), Kati Harper (The University of Queensland), and Bronte Montgomery-Farrer (Deakin University) | The ‘Supreme Gentleman’: Does competition increase endorsement of problematic sexual behaviour? |
2018 SASP Postgraduate Small Grant Scheme (4 x $500)
| Researcher Team | Academic Advisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mylyn C. Dat (University of Queensland) Cassandra M. Chapman (University of Queensland) Nickolas M. Jones (University of California, Irvine) | Tyler Okimoto (University of Queensland) | Stand with your sisters, NOT just your cis-ters: Understanding why majority members of disadvantaged groups include or exclude minority membersc |
| Amrita Ahluwalia (University of Edinburgh, Scotland); John Kerr (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand); Stephanie Rizio (University of Melbourne, Australia) | Prof. Marc Wilson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand); Dr. Daniel Osborne (University of Auckland, New Zealand) | Cognition and the Dual Process Model of Motivation: An Integrative Approach |
| Matylda Mackiewicz (University of Newcastle), Alexander O’Donnell (Griffith University) | Ass. Prof Stefania Paolini (University of Newcastle), Prof David Neumann (Griffith University) | Seeking intergroup contact: Exploring unique predictors and contact-type preferences |
| William Bingley (University of Queensland), Zahra Mirnajafi (University of Queensland), Joshua Rhee (University of Melbourne), Kealagh Robinson (Victoria University), Samantha Stanley (Victoria University). | Emina Subasic (University of Newcastle), Alex Haslam (University of Queensland), Marc Wilson (Victoria University) | The role of symbolic action in transforming collective guilt into further collective action on behalf of disadvantaged groups |
2017 SASP Postgraduate Small Grant Scheme (4 x $500)
| Researcher Team | Academic Advisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Morgana Lizzio-Wilson (The University of Queensland), Diana Batchelor (University of Oxford), and Adriana Vargas Sáenz (The University of Melbourne) | Dr Tegan Cruwys (The University of Queensland) | ‘But not all men…’ Social identity threat as a barrier to men’s engagement in gender activism |
| Melissa Xue-Ling Chang (The University of Queensland), Kunalan Manokara (The University of Queensland), Elyse Williams (The University of Queensland), Joanna Doley (La Trobe University), and How Hwee Ong (Tilburg University) | Professor Jolanda Jetten (The University of Queensland) | The influence of cultural belief systems on mental illness attributions and mind perception towards people experiencing psychosis |
| Damien Crone (University of Melbourne) Emily Harris (University of Queensland) | Professor Matthew Hornsey (University of Queensland) | The effects of person and robot characteristics on judgements of social robots |
2016 SASP Postgraduate Small Grant Scheme (4 x $500)
| Researcher Team | Academic Advisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Xueling Chang (UQ), Melissa de Vel-Palumbo (Flinders University), Rose Ferguson (ACU), Chelsea Schein (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill). | Dr Brock Bastian (University of Melbourne) | Denying Agency Reduces Blame but at What Cost? Why Using the Defence of Mental Illness Undermines Moral Standing |
| Ayoub Bouguettaya (Deakin University), Gi K Chonu (UQ), Mikaela Cibich (Flinders University), Joanna Doley (La Trobe University), Elyse Williams (UQ) | Dr Tegan Cruwys (UQ) and Professor Alex Haslam (UQ) | What makes people choose to join groups? |
| Michael Doane (University of Nevada), Angela Nguyen (Australian National University), Anna Klas (Deakin University), Andrew Jerovich (Western Sydney University) | Dr Tegan Cruwys (UQ) | Social Identity Management among Biracial Individuals: How Does Concealing Stigmatized Social Identities Contribute to Psychological Well-Being? |
| Caley Tapp (Griffith University), Fieke Wagemans (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Joanne Beames (UNSW), Cassandra Chapman (UQ) and Daniel Crimston (UQ) | Dr Simon Laham and Dr Brock Bastian (University of Melbourne) | Context-sensitivity in moral cognition: Are moral principles applied universally? |
2015 SASP Postgraduate Small Grant Scheme (4 x $500)
| Researcher Team | Academic Advisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Morgana Lizzio-Wilson (The University of Queensland) Annamaria Klas (Deakin University) | A/Prof Barbara Masser (UQ) Dr Janine McGuiness (Deakin) | ‘You can’t use that word, that’s what we call you!’ Investigating the antecedents and outcomes of reappropriation for stigmatized groups |
2014 SASP Postgraduate Small Grant Scheme (4 x $500)
| Researcher Team | Academic Advisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew Farrugia (Swinburne University of Technology), Brad Elphinstone (Swinburne University of Technology), Pamela Pensini (James Cook University) | A/Prof Christine Critchley (Swinburne University of Technology) | Assessing the relationship between political ideologies, policy preference and voting behaviour/intention |
| Joel Anderson (Australian Catholic University), Michael Thai (The University of Queensland), Thekla Morgenroth (University of Exeter) | A/Prof Blake McKimmie (The University of Queensland) | Cross-categorisation in the court room: The role of gender and sexual orientation in perceptions of defendant guilt |
| Khandis Blake (The University of New South Wales, Billy Sung (The University of Queensland), Jennifer Yih (Vanderbilt University), Kun Zhao (University of Melbourne) | Dr Cindy Harmon-Jones (The University of New South Wales) | Disgusting, Scary, or Creepy? An Argument for Differentiation |
| Lydia Hayward (The University of Queensland), Jasmine Fardouly (The University of New South Wales), Tanya Machin (University of Southern Queensland), Pirathat Techakesari (The University of Queensland) | Dr Fiona Kate Barlow (The University of Queensland) Dr Lenny Vartanian (The University of New South Wales) | Ostracism and Obesity: When Do We Choose to Ostracise Stigmatised Out-group Members? |
2013 SASP Postgraduate Small Grant Scheme (4 x $500)
| Researcher Team | Academic Advisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Alexa Hayley (Deakin University), Diana Onu (University of Exeter) | Prof Tom Postmes (University of Groningen) | Zeitgeist: An empirical phenomenon? |
| Elise Kalokerinos & Katharine Greenaway (The University of Queensland), David Pedder (Australian Catholic University), Elise Margetts (The University of Melbourne) | A/Prof Tom Denson (The University of New South Wales) | The upside of down-regulation: Can suppressing positive emotions improve interpersonal relationships? |
| Jason McIntyre (The University of Queensland), Maria Abou Abdallah (The University of Melbourne) | Dr Fiona Kate Barlow (The University of Queensland) | The role of self-control and group identification in predicting parochial altruism |
| Joel Anderson (Australian Catholic University), Avelie Stuart (Murdoch University), Anna Cooke (The University of Queensland), Isabel Rossen (University of Western Australia) | Dr Kelly Fielding (The University of Queensland) | Sometimes Egalitarian? Using hypothetical societies as a behavioural intervention |