Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grant
Forecasted
Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grant supports graduate researchers studying LGBTQIA+ family psychology and therapy to understand family challenges, coping, resilience, and clinical interventions.
Funder: American Psychological Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): November 2026 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: One $9,000 grant; funding continues for up to 12 months from the check date
Summary: Supports advanced graduate students researching LGBTQIA+ family psychology and therapy, including family challenges, coping, resilience, and clinical interventions.
Key Information: Applicants must be advanced graduate students in good standing, endorsed by a supervising professor.
Description
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) supports promising graduate investigators studying LGBTQIA+ family psychology and therapy. The program funds basic and applied research addressing the challenges sexual and gender minority people face in forming, defining, and maintaining families. It aims to encourage students to make LGBTQIA+ family issues a continuing focus of their research careers.
Program priorities include understanding problems associated with cultural, racial, socioeconomic, and family structure diversity; successful coping mechanisms and sources of support and resilience; and clinical issues and interventions involving LGBTQIA+ people. Preference is given to advanced students whose dissertation research plans demonstrate commitment to this area. The grant honors Roy Scrivner, a psychologist and LGBTQIA+ advocate who founded APA’s Division of Family Psychology’s Committee on Lesbian and Gay Family Issues.
