ACBS is excited to announce the recipients of the ACBS Early Career Mentorship Award:
Orla Moran, Ph.D,: Postdoctoral Researcher & Psychology Lecturer– NetwellCASALA, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland & City Colleges Dublin, Ireland.
Rebecca L. Schneider, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, U.S.A.
Essi Sairanen, Ph.D., Clinical Lecturer/ Associate Professor in Psychology, Karlstad University & County Council of Värmland, Sweden.
The ACBS Early Career Mentorship Award is an initiative from the Centering Science Strategic Pillar aimed at supporting early career CBS researchers in securing research-focused faculty positions in research universities and academic medical centers. This is a competitive award and selections are made by our review panel. The committee works to match selected mentees to relevant mentors within the ACBS community. Orla Moran, Ph.D. will be mentored by David Gillanders, DClinPsy.; Rebecca L. Schneider, Ph.D. will be mentored by Michael P. Twohig, Ph.D.; and Essi Sairanen, Ph.D. will be mentored by Louise McHugh, Ph.D.
Mentorship occurs over a two year period and includes regular meetings with a senior CBS academic mentor, providing mentorship on topics such as applying to positions, job talk preparation, interview preparation, strategies for writing successful grants, collaboration/team science within ACBS, and how to build a CV to be attractive to research-focused universities. Even if a job is secured before the two year timeframe is completed the process will continue and support can be provided for setting up a CBS lab and obtaining tenure. Mentees must be a current ACBS member who is early in their career - defined as within five years post Ph.D. graduation date; or graduate students who have defended their dissertation and are currently on their predoctoral clinical internship. Click here to read more about the ACBS Early Career Mentorship Award.