Sidney W. and Janet R. Bijou Grant Program for Doctoral Student Research

Donor Name: Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis

Reference URL:https://saba.abainternational.org/grants/sidney-w-janet-r-bijou-grant/

The Sidney W. and Janet R. Bijou Grant Program provides support to doctoral student research in behavioral development using a natural science framework.

Priority is given to research that directly relates to or informs child development, including studies on basic animal processes relevant to neurotypical development. Projects should focus on identifying behavioral processes involved in cognitive, social, emotional, and language development, with examples such as derived relational responding, social referencing, bidirectional naming, interdependence of verbal operants, skill acquisition, joint attention, and behavioral cusps. Both basic and translational research with nonhuman subjects are eligible if the primary purpose is to address behavioral mechanisms of development.

Grants of up to US$12,000 are available for each academic year, with all expenses required to be clearly detailed in the proposed budget. Indirect costs, research staff salaries, general research infrastructure, and most professional travel are not eligible for funding, except for travel to the ABAI Annual Convention for presenting research.

Applicants must be enrolled or accepted in a doctoral program in psychology, education, behavioral science, or an allied discipline with sufficient behaviorally oriented faculty and resources to supervise and support the proposed research. The project must be of sufficient rigor to be submitted for publication and contribute to the literature on behavioral development. Applicants may not apply for both the Bijou Grant and the Innovative Student Research Grant in the same year.

Applications require a completed biosketch, a five-page proposal (with up to two additional pages for references), a letter of support from an academic advisor confirming at least one year remaining in the program, and a letter from the department or program chair verifying institutional resources. Grant recipients are expected to submit a brief report and expenditure outline to the SABA Board by April 1 of the following year.

For more information, visit SABA.

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