ELIGIBILITY

Each pair of applicants must meet the following criteria:

• ISSBD early career scholars located in different countries or regions (ideally different continents and ideally at least one applicant from a majority-world/under-represented country).
• Have a mentor available.
• Active current doctoral or postdoctoral students at a college or university, or within 7 years of being awarded a doctoral degree (time out for caring responsibilities or other commitments are considered).
• Proposed projects can cover any research study related to a science that cares about a better understanding and/or promotion of human development and flourishing across the lifespan; given the short time period of the grant, proposals for original research, secondary data analysis, and meta-analytic reviews are welcome.
• Importance of proposed project to developmental science needs to be explicitly stated and clear (e.g., by the use of developmental theory to inform the study and interpret results).
• Past collaboration between the applicants would be beneficial.
• A cross-cultural element may be included with a stated rationale for how incorporating diversity and/or data from two different cultures, regions, or perspectives will contribute to the goals of the proposed research project.
• ISSBD membership is required if awarded the grant.