Early Career Scholars
Travel Grant Applications
Early Career Scholars, participants who have received a graduate research degree (e.g., PhD) within the past seven years (late 2018 or later) or who are currently in a graduate program leading to such a degree, may be eligible to apply for travel grants to join the pre-conference workshops and attend the conference. See below for additional information. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Julie Bowker ([email protected]).
Pre-conference Workshops for Early Career Scholars
The International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development is planning several pre-conference workshops specially for early career scholars – participants, who received a graduate research degree (e.g., PhD) within the past seven years or who are in a graduate program leading to such a degree – to be held in Incheon on June 21, 2026, the day before the main ISSBD 2026 sessions start. ISSBD anticipates providing travel support for a number of qualified early career scholars to attend one of these pre-conference workshops and the ISSBD 2026 conference. Applications from early career scholars from any country are welcome. Please note that travel grants will only be awarded to early career scholars who apply for and attend one of the pre-conference workshops AND who have at least one abstract accepted for the 2026 Biennial Meeting. Please also note that this is a new competition and that all early career scholars need to apply to be eligible for travel grants and pre-conference workshops for the 2026 meeting.
Specific Workshops
Six full day pre conference workshops will be offered. More details will be made available soon, but the topics of the workshops will be:
(1) Publishing
(2) Communicating within Communities: Capacity Building to Communicate Science that Cares
(3) Open Developmental Science
(4) Dyadic and Network Approaches to the Study of Peer Relationships
(5) The Promise: Preparing Young People and Their Families for the Challenge of a Warming World
(6) Methods in Developmental Science
For additional information about the preconference workshops and their leaders, see here.
Procedure for Application
Interested Early Career Scholars should apply for the pre-conference workshops and request travel funding support through www.members.issbd.org. In addition to the completed application form (which is completed online this year), the following are required: (1) One of your abstracts submitted for the 2026 ISSBD Biennial Meeting; (2) A 2-page curriculum vitae; and (3) A reference letter from a senior scientist familiar with your research work (preferably an ISSBD member; no more than 2 pages). Please note that your reference letter and journal publications may be verified and curriculum vitae longer than 2 pages will not be considered. If possible, please submit the three required items as a single PDF. If this is not possible, please try to submit the application and the three required items as a single MS Word document. Ensure that the name of the document(s) you submit includes your surname as the first word of its filename. Please note that applications for a travel grant will only be considered from individuals whose academic contribution to the ISSBD 2026 conference in Incheon (poster, poster workshop or symposium) is accepted for presentation. Only those ECS applicants with current paid ISSBD memberships are eligible. Therefore, decisions about funding will be made after decisions about acceptances to the Biennial Meeting have been announced. Incomplete and late applications will not be accepted.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION
December 20, 2025.
Decision time-frame: funding decisions will be made in as timely a way as possible, but after decisions about the Biennial Meeting have been made. All funding decisions will be communicated via e-mail around February/March 2026.
