Student Scholarships for the ACBS World Conference

A goal of the ACBS Foundation is to support existing activities within ACBS. The ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship will enable students to attend the annual ACBS World Conference. The scholarship will cover the full student conference registration fee. To read more about the ACBS Foundation or donate to the Foundation click here.

The mission of the ACBS Student SIG is to work to support students of contextual behavioral science by advocating for their professional and personal development and facilitating their contribution to ACBS and the larger community. One step in moving towards this mission has been to create the Student World Conference Scholarship that will help subsidize the costs of attending the annual ACBS World Conference.  (We need your help! If you're able, please consider donating to the Student Fund here. Every Dollar/Euro/Yen/Peso/Farthing helps!)

Requirements:

Nominees must be:

1. Student members of ACBS in good standing (i.e., membership dues are up to date);
2. Currently enrolled as a student in an undergraduate or graduate program;
3. Presenting a poster, a paper as part of a symposium, or IGNITE presentation. Please note that these submissions MUST be submitted by February 15, even though the general poster submission deadline is later for the conference. (In the event that your oral/symposium presentation is not accepted, scholarship recipients will be guaranteed a poster acceptance on the same topic/research.)

We encourage applications from first time ACBS conference attendees, students from under-represented groups in ACBS (e.g. developing nations), and students who demonstrate financial need. We define “financial need” as including one or more of the following, but understand that there might be other examples:

• You do not have student assistantships (i.e., paid Teaching Assistant or Research Assistant appointments). You are funding all of your studies with student loans and/or working other jobs outside of school.

• Your school will not provide any reimbursement or funding for this trip. You are funding this trip 100% by yourself.

• You have recently gone through personal situations that have put a strain on you financially.

• You live in one of the nations listed here.

This scholarship must be used in in the year awarded and can not be delayed to future years.  This scholarship may only be used to offset the main conference registration fees (the scholarship may not be applied to any other expense). If an individual is awarded more than one scholarship in the same conference year, the total value of all scholarships may not exceed the total cost of the ACBS World Conference registration fee.

Apply here by February 15!

Submission Deadline: The deadline for submissions is February 15th by 11:59pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The Student World Conference Scholarship and ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship use the same application. No submissions will be allowed after the deadline. Incomplete submissions will be disqualified. Notifications of scholarship recipients will be made via email by March 31st.

Award Recipients:

ACBS World Conference 2024 - Buenos Aires, Argentina

Paula Rodríguez, Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz (ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship)
Ezaeza Gaby Sanz Galvan, Edge Hill University (ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship)
Golnaz Atefi, Maastricht University
Getaneh Mulualem Belay, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

ACBS World Conference 2023 - Nicosia, Cyprus

Yass Radd, City University of London (ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship)
Xu Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong (ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship)
Devin Guthrie, Texas A&M University
Megan Mayo, Antioch University New England

ACBS World Conference 2022 - San Francisco, USA

Zacharias Christensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship)
Jiayin Ruan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China (ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship)
Jessica Criddle, Murray State University
Sean Friedman, University of the Witwatersrand
Lauren Griffin, Suffolk University
Ben Spaloss, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 

ACBS Virtual World Conference 2021

Jin Xiaohuan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China (ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship)
Pinelopi Konstantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship)
Jennifer DiBartolomeo, Widener University
Léo Guarnieri, Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Psiquiatria do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina
Hannah Johnson, Utah State University
Joseph Lavelle, University College Dublin
Luke Mather, University College Dublin
Victoria Visscher, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Heloisa Ribeiro Zapparoli, Federal University of São Carlos
Zhang Xuelin, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Zhao Wenqian, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

ACBS World Conference 2020

Nadina Pantea, Babeș-Bolyai University (ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship)
Alison Stapleton, University College Dublin (ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship)
Rebeca Castellanos, University of South Carolina
Joseph Lavelle, University College Dublin
Huiyuan LI, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jill Loving, University of Denver
Marissa Sbrilli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ACBS World Conference 17 – Dublin, Ireland

Kate Barrett, University College Dublin
Catriona Connelly, University College Dublin
Lauren Johnson, Drexel University
Stephen Richer, Bournemouth University
Eric Tifft, University at Albany, SUNY

ACBS World Conference 16 - Montréal, Canada

Zülal ÇELİK, Bakirkoy Research & Training Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery
Michael McGlenn, Alliant International University, California School of Professional Psychology
Benjamin Ramos, University of Edinburgh
Karoly Schlosser, Institute of Management Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
Merve Terzioglu, Bakirkoy Research & Training Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery 

ACBS World Conference 15 - Seville, Spain

ACBS World Conference 14 - Seattle, USA

ACBS World Conference 13 - Berlin, Germany