AIMOS top-up scholarships for PhD and Masters students

2023 scholarship awardees

We received 35 applications, 22 were deemed eligible by the AIMOS Awards committee and 4 were awarded at random. The four winners are: 

  • Beth Clarke (University of Melbourne). How does science generate knowledge: An empirical investigation of the state of social and personality psychology.

  • Adeyemi Adetula (Université Grenoble Alpes). Increasing the generalizability of psychology by making it less WEIRD.

  • Emma Wilson (The University of Edinburgh). A meta-research framework for evaluating evidence from animal models of neurodevelopmental conditions.

  • Maximilian Primbs (Radboud University). A many-lab many-analyst investigation of the generic masculine effect.

2023 APPLICATION DETAILS

AIMOS will award up to four top-up scholarships per year to PhD or Masters students working on a meta-research project. Scholarships will be offered as a AUD2500 award (given as a one-off payment). The winners will be selected at random from all eligible applicants. All eligible applicants will receive free annual membership of AIMOS. AIMOS particularly encourages applications from students from historically marginalised or underrepresented groups (e.g. women, racial or ethnic minorities, people with disabilities or caring responsibilities). AIMOS welcomes and will consider applications from all countries. It might be difficult for us to transfer funds to some countries, but we will explore all practical and legal options to allow any winners in these locations to receive their scholarship.

Eligibility

To be eligible, students must:

  • Be currently enrolled in a PhD or Masters degree, either full-time or part-time, with or without an existing scholarship

  • Leading a meta-research project, that is, studying any element of the research process (e.g. design, conduct, analysis, reporting) in any field and where improvements to it can be made. The meta-research project does not need to be a component of the PhD or Masters thesis. Projects can be empirical, theoretical or computational.

  • Have at least 6 months left before the completion of their degree (from the time of the application closing date).

Previous winners are not eligible to reapply. Previous unsuccessful applicants can reapply.

The application

We will only accept self-nominations from students. To apply, please complete an application form, which includes:

  • Your name, institution and email address

  • Your gender, for stratification purposes (see below)

  • The country you are currently based in, for stratification purposes (see below)

  • Your primary supervisor’s name and email address

  • A description of your work

    • A brief summary of your PhD/Masters project (max. 100 words)

    • Your progress to date on your PhD/Masters project (max. 100 words)

You will also need to provide proof of current enrolment (e.g. image of student ID card, enrolment confirmation letter). All information included in the nomination form will be stored on the AIMOS Google Drive.

Dates for applications for the 2023 round opened on 27 September 2023 and will close on 25 October 2023, with winners announced by 15 November 2023.

The selection process

Applications will be reviewed independently by at least two AIMOS Board members and judged as either eligible or not, with any disagreements resolved by discussion among the reviewers. Reviewers will be assigned so that they will not assess any nominations they may have a conflict of interest with (e.g. current or former students, recent collaborators). Reviewers might consult additional publicly available material (e.g. university website) to confirm eligibility. All applicants judged as eligible will be entered into a draw with the four winners chosen at random (stratified so winners are not all the same gender and do not all come from the same country).

All applicants judged as eligible will be given free membership of AIMOS, including those who did not win the scholarship.

Award winners will be notified via email the outcome of their application and their names and affiliations will be posted on the AIMOS website.

Expectations of the winning students

The winners must agree to have their name, supervisory team, project title and a summary paragraph about their research placed on the AIMOS website. Students will be expected to deliver a short presentation on their project at a conference or webinar organised by AIMOS held the following year.

2023 AWARDS COMMITTEE

Adrian Barnett, Jennifer Byrne, Daniel Hamilton, Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz, Matt Page