Seisoh Sukemune/Bruce Bain Award for Encouragement of Early Career Research

Deadline: June 30, 2025

The Seisoh Sukemune/Bruce Bain Encouragement of Early Career Research Award recognizes outstanding early career contributions to scholarly endeavors addressing psychological issues of a universal or multinational significance. It is designed to encourage research that systematically addresses the psychological dimensions affecting the quality of human life, and to enhance and reinforce the mission and goals of ICP. For the purpose of this award, “research” is broadly defined to include all paradigms of scholarly endeavor, such as laboratory experiments, field experiments, field studies, correlation and evaluation studies, historical studies and case histories. The recipient is expected to present a talk that relates to his/her research.

Award Description

  • An honorarium for $200 USD, an award certificate and an award memento
  • An invitation to present an ICP webinar, and encouragement to participate in the ICP Annual Conference, with waived conference registration fee
  • Waived ICP Membership fee for the award year and the next year (18 months)

Criteria for eligibility

The recipient must be a psychologist who has no more than ten (10) years postdoctoral experience, or a student. Nominations  are invited from all over the world.

Nomination materials and procedure

  • Nomination must be made here
  • Materials include:
    • Uploaded manuscript (PDF) of a professional paper based primarily on the applicant’s own work; Nominee must be first or sole author on the paper; Nominee’s contribution must be greater than 50%; Paper must not have been published elsewhere but can be based on Nominee’s unpublished bachelor, master, diploma, or dissertation research; Paper must follow APA publication format; Length of paper cannot exceed 25 double-spaced pages including abstract, references, figures, and tables;
    • Nominee’s curriculum vita (PDF only);
    • Names of providers of two letters of support stipulating why the applicant is deserving of the award (letters may uploaded with application or submitted separately to: Dr. Cecilia Cheng, ceccheng@hku.hk);
    • Certification that the material presented is original and is primarily the Nominee’s own work, that the Nominee’s contribution to the paper is greater than 50% (where there are multiple authors), that the material has not been previously published, and that the Nominee agrees to present the paper at the  ICP conference.

Paper selection criteria:

The paper’s logic, its purpose, its methodology, its universal or multinational significance, contribution to the development of international psychology, and contribution to the development of human well-being.

For inquiries, please contact the award chair, Prof. Cecilia Cheng, at ceccheng@hku.hk

Past Recipients – Sukemune/Bain Award

2023: Dr. Erinn C. Cameron, University of Michigan, USA
2022: Mr. Omid Vakili Ebrahimi, University of Oslo, Norway
2021: Dr. Bisma Ejaz, Lahore College for Women, Pakistan
2020: Dr. Linus Chan, University of Montana, USA
2019: No Award Given
2018: Dr. Anusha Kassan, University of Calary, Canada
2017: Dr. Swati Bajpai, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India
2016: Dr. Hiroaki Kawamichi from Gunma University, Japan
2015: Mr. Joshua Wright, University of Western Ontario, Canada
2014: Dr. Melody Chao, Hong Kong U. Science & Technology CHINA
2013: Dr. Angela K.Y. Leung, Singapore Management University, SINGAPORE
2012: Dr. Diana Boer, Bremen, GERMANY
2004: Ms. Mikayo Ando, Health Science Laboratory, Gakugei University, Tokyo, JAPAN
2002: Ms. Serena Cheng, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TAIWAN
2001: Ms. Yumi Suzuki, Nagoya University, JAPAN
2000: Dr. Ng Aik Kwang, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE
1999: Dr. Cecilia Cheng, Division Social Science, The Hong Kong University, HONG KONG

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