Funder: American Psychological Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: 1 grant of $3,750
Summary: Supports innovative graduate student and early-career research on understanding, preventing, or treating the consequences of traumatic events.
Key Information: Applicants must be graduate students or doctoral-level psychologists no more than 10 years postdoctoral, with an eligible institutional affiliation.
Description
The American Psychological Foundation’s Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Grant supports graduate students and early-career researchers conducting innovative work on the consequences of exposure to traumatic events, including sexual assault, sexual harassment, and rape. Sponsored by APA Division 56: Division of Trauma Psychology, the grant funds research focused on understanding, prevention, and treatment.
The program emphasizes originality, innovation, and contributions to the trauma field, alongside project quality, viability, and potential impact. Previously supported work includes laboratory and ambulatory research on trauma-related dissociation, measurement of sexual violence among refugee and forcibly displaced women, and research on protective factors and compassion among survivors of sexual violence.
