Carol Saunders Travel Award
Carol Saunders Travel Award supports scholars’ conference participation through presentations, advocacy, or policy work to contribute to conservation psychology and encourage conservation.
Funder: Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology
Due Dates: April 1, 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $2,000 for one scholar’s conference participation
Summary: Supports participation in a conservation psychology conference to contribute through scholarly presentations, advocacy, or policy work.
Key Information: Faculty and students are eligible, but nominees must be current members of APA Division 34.
Description
The Carol Saunders Travel Award is offered by the Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology, Division 34 of the American Psychological Association. It supports a scholar’s participation in a conservation psychology conference, connecting conference attendance with contributions to the field. Supported activities may include presenting a paper or poster, participating as a delegate advocating for a conservation psychology issue, or advocating for a policy shift on a committee.
The award honors Carol Saunders, a co-founder of conservation psychology. This interdisciplinary field studies reciprocal relationships between humans and nature, with a focus on encouraging conservation. Saunders’s foundational work emphasized both human impacts on the natural world and nature’s influence on people, establishing a framework for advancing biodiversity, sustainability, and empathy for the natural world.
