The Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP) is excited to announce the winners of the postgraduate awards and the finalists for the 2025 Outstanding Postgraduate Research Awards (OPRA). These awards support student travel, recognise outstanding postgraduate research and support collaborative research between postgraduate SASP members.
Margaret Foddy SASP Postgraduate Travel Award
We are honoured to announce the 10 recipients of The Margaret Foddy Postgraduate Travel Awards.
Congratulations to the 2025 Margaret Foddy Postgraduate Travel Award Winners!
- Hashini Madarasinge
- Aron Pamoso
- Mohsen Tabar
- Oksana Voznyuk
- Yuang Cheng
- Olivia Nop
- Sue Ji
- Terise Broodryk
- Oliver Draper Griffiths
- Dora Zhang
SASP Honours Travel Award
We are also very excited to congratulate the two recipients of the 2025 SASP Honours Travel Award.
Congratulations to the 2025 SASP Honours Travel Award Winners!
- Antonia Scoufis
- Charles Durkin
SASP Small Grant Scheme
In 2025, we also awarded five SASP Small Grants to support some amazing research among postgraduate SASP members.
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 SASP Small Grants Scheme!
- Felicity Angelopoulos & Eden Clarke
- Axel Chemke-Dreyfus & Terise Broodryk
- Abby Robinson, Janquel Acevedo & Melinda Hewett
- Hester Xiao, Terise Broodryk, & Sarah O’Brien
- Dora Zhang & Alicia Ormond
2025 Outstanding Postgraduate Research Awards Finalists
Finally, we are excited to announce the four finalists for the 2025 Outstanding Postgraduate Research Awards (OPRA). These finalists will present their research at SASP 2025 in Melbourne/Naarm on Thursday, 20th November.
Congratulations to the 2025 OPRA finalists!
- Zoe Bertenshaw (University of Auckland): “The Dark Duo: Exploring change and tokenism in colonial ideologies”
- Yuang Cheng (Australian National University): “The siren’s call: How social media influencers are using identity leadership to shape diagnostic label identification and self-care intentions”
- Charlie Pittaway (University of Queensland): “The future under threat: Climate change as a problem for the present and future self through the lens of temporal orientation”
- Kian Jin Tan (La Trobe University): “Minority stress and resilience at the intersection of gender and ethnocultural background within the trans community in Australia”
More details about SASP Awards and Funding, including application criteria and previous recipients, can be found at https://sasp.org.au/news/awardsfunding/.