Overview

Four travel awards are available for individuals who attend and present at the 2025 SSSR conference. Each award covers registration fees, entry to the conference social event, and four nights in the conference hotel for the 2025 conference. Award winners will also receive one year’s SSSR membership.

Eligibility

The travel awards are given to individuals from countries with emerging or developing economies. Specifically, applicants must be both a citizen and a resident of a country listed here as low or middle income (list derived from the World Bank classification system).

Applicants must have any type of paper accepted at the 2025 SSSR conference and must present at the conference.

We expect that two awards will be given to researchers who have a PhD and two awards will be given to researchers who do not have a PhD.

Application Materials and Procedure

Please submit the following materials in PDF format to scientificstudy.reading@gmail.com by January 15th 2025:

  • Completed application form
  • CV in English
  • A 1-page letter of support from someone who can speak to your suitability for this award, such as a colleague or your department chair (single spaced with 1-inch margins and 11-point font size)

Past Award Winners

2024 award winners: Aleksandra Sergeevna Cherevik (Russia), Leily Ziglari (Iran), Maxine Schaefer (South Africa), Tatiana Cury Pollo (Brazil)
2023 award winners: Zebedee Cheah (Malaysia/China), Glenda Garcia (Philippines), Suchakrey (Toys) Koomplee (Thailand)
2022 award winners: Sabrine A.M. Townsend (Brazil), Sandra Romero Carreón (Mexico)
2021 award winners: Kadine de Carvalho (Brazil), Tengwen Fan (China)
2020 award winners: Aline Elisabete Pereira (Brazil), Alioth Guerrero Aranda (Cuba), Maria Rufina Pearson (Argentina), María Elsa Porta (Argentina)
2019 award winners: Carol Mesa (Colombia), Gaby Silva Maceda (Mexico), Dalia Martinez  (Mexico), Lucas Barbosa (Brazil)
2018 award winners: Maria Rufina Pearson (Argentina), Cecilia María Malbrán (Argentina), Daniela Teixeira Gonçalves (Brazil), María Josefina D’Alessio (Argentina)
2017 award winners: Zsofia K. Takacs (Hungary), Yixun Li (China), Burcu Sari (Turkey), Macarena Silva (Chile)
2016 award winners: Cintia Salgado Azoni (Brazil), Liliana Fonseca (Argentina), Tatiana Cury Pollo (Brazil), Barbara Gottheil (Argentina)