SASP Early Career Award

The SASP Early Career award is awarded to an emerging scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of social psychology in Australasia.

An announcement is made to the SASP mailing list when nominations for the SASP Early Career Award opens.

To be eligible for the SASP ECR Award, nominees should:

Be a member of SASP
Have completed their PhD less than 5 years ago (adjusted for career interruptions)

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Candidates can self-nominate or can be nominated by other SASP members. For nomination, the following is asked for:

the candidates CV
a cover letter outlining candidates research achievements,
two references

The winner of the award is invited to present their work at the next SASP conference.

Previous recipients

Previous recipients of the SASP Early Career Award are listed found below.

Below are details of SASP Early Career Award recipients.

Year	Recepient	Affiliation
2025	Kelly Kirkland	University of Queensland
2024	Jonathan Bartholomaeus	University of Adelaide
2023	Samantha Stanley	Australian National University
2023	Hema Preya Selvanathan	University of Queensland
2022	Khandis Blake	The University of Melbourne
2022	Charlie Crimston	The University of Queensland
2021	Jasmine Fardouly	Macquarie University and University of New South Wales
2021	Joel Anderson	Australian Catholic University and Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health, and Society at La Trobe University
2020	Matthew Hammond	Victoria University of Wellington
2019	Elise Kalokerinos	University of Newcastle
2018	Tegan Cruwys	University of Queensland
2017	Katharine Greenaway	University of Queensland
2016	Emma Thomas	Murdoch University
2015	Danny Osborne	University of Auckland
2014	Steve Loughnan	University of Melbourne
2013	Fiona Kate Barlow	University of Queensland
2012	Tom Denson	University of New South Wales
2011	Brock Bastian	University of Queensland

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