ECPA Awards – European Community Psychology Association

The European Community Psychology Association (ECPA) each year confers awards in the four different categories:

The ECPA Lifetime Career Award: The Award is to honour individuals with outstanding, long-term scientific contribution to Community Psychology theory, research, and practice.
The ECPA Young Career Award: This award will recognize individuals for their notable contributions to the field of community psychology and who are within eight years of the award of their Ph.D.
The ECPA Best Doctoral Thesis Award: This Award is to identify the best doctoral thesis on a topic relevant to the field of community psychology completed in the last two years (e.g., for 2023 between January 2020 to December 2022).
The ECPA Contribution to Practice Award: The Award is presented to honour individuals who are making a significant contribution to the field of Community Psychology (e. g., have developed intervention projects in local or virtual communities, which produced a significant impact in the communities).

ECPA Awards procedures

The prizes are awarded annually

Nominations and self-nominations are both accepted. ECPA invites its member to nominate candidates

ECPA Board members cannot be nominated

Past presidents cannot send self-nominations

Each application should include a 1-2 pages letter describing the nominee’s work and why they are worthy of recognition, as well as the proposer (when applicable) and nominee’s personal data (names, address, and e-mails).

Nominations should be sent as e-mail attachments to the ECPA BOARD at ecpa.psychassociation@gmail.com by July 31

We strongly recommend submitting supporting documents, including published papers, books chapters and/or other relevant outputs.

For the ECPA Doctoral Thesis Award, please submit a document (max. 5,000 words) summarising the main sections (i.e., state of the art, methodology, results and conclusions), including a summary of the thesis (~300 words) and a brief presentation of the doctoral student (~200 words).

Each award is accompanied by the Award Certificate and announcement of the award on the ECPA website. More benefits for the winners include free membership for 1 year; free registration for the ECPA conference; public announcement of the nomination at the ECPA event in Bratislava (November 2023).

The prizes will be awarded by a Committee, which will include one person from the ECPA Board and at least two invited external experts.

ECPA Awards 2021

The ECPA Lifetime Career Award 2021 was assigned to Josè Ornelas.

Read the milestones of his career here

The ECPA Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2021 was assigned to Francesca Esposito

She discussed a dissertation entitled Life and Lived Experiences of People inside Migration-related Detention: An Ecological Exploration into Rome’s Detention Center. The dissertation addresses a critical and contemporary issue in Europe and beyond and offers important contributions to Community Psychology. It was also particularly valued the courage to research this topic in such a challenging setting, following community psychology approaches and methods. The dissertation is an example of outstanding community psychology work and as such, it deserves the award. Visit her profile here

ECPA Awards 2022

The ECPA Lifetime Career Award 2022 was assigned to Caterina Arcidiacono

Read the milestones of her career here

The ECPA Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2022 was assigned to Marta Gaboardi

Marta Gaboardi has been awarded the best doctoral thesis award for 2022 for her dissertation “Working with people experiencing homelessness, completed under the supervision of Professor Santinello. Marta Gaboardi has done outstanding work, as her thesis develops the issue of homelessness in an original way with reference to (a) theoretical perspective – ecological approach (b) intervention programme – HousingFirst (HF) (c) point of view – service providers and not only homeless people. The candidate shows mastery in the use of different tools used to collect data, with an innovative approach using photovoice in cross-cultural research, and offers robust and mature insights on the practical implications of the research and its future directions.

Visit her profile here

Announcements

Call for applications – Student collaborators to co-develop the ECPA-SCRA online webinar series

European Community Psychology Association (ECPA) in collaboration with the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) is organising an online webinar series, composed of five online webinar sessions. Each webinar will focus on key societal challenges and domains for community psychologists, such as borders and migrant justice; feminisms and gender-based violence; violence and resistance in transgender, queer and gender-nonconforming communities; climate/environmental justice; community mental health and homelessness; the prison-industrial complex and abolitionist struggles; decolonising academic knowledge and practices. For each webinar, scholars from ECPA and SCRA respectively will be invited to share their insights with the audience. The series will take place between November 2023 and June 2024. We are looking for one to two European-based students enrolled in a Master or PhD programme with a focus on community psychology to help organise and disseminate the online webinar series. Tasks: Collaborators will help designing the webinar series and identify the ECPA/SCRA scholars to invite for each session. Collaborators will also help disseminate the webinar series and run individual sessions. After each webinar, the two collaborators will finally write a short blogpost with key ideas and discussions coming out of each webinar, or will help ECPA board members finding someone who would be willing to write it. Each of the collaborators will be provided a grant of 450 Euros . Application process: To apply for this opportunity please send a brief description, of no more than two pages, of the webinar series how you will design it. Please indicate title and main topics addressed in each webinar and the reason why these are important for community psychology scholars, activists, and practitioners. Please also provide a brief motivation letter, describing why you are applying for this opportunity and how this role aligns with and contribute to your academic/professional values and trajectory, and what you are looking to learn from it. Applications from Black and ethnic minoritised students are particularly welcome. Applications should be sent via email to ecpa.psychassociation@gmail.com by Friday 22nd September 2023, 24:00h CET. Any application arrived after that deadline will not be considered. A Committee will assess existing applications and candidates will be informed of their outcomes by 16th October 2023. For any query contact: ecpa.psychassociation@gmail.com

Beyond Genders. Intersectionality between theory and practice. Interdisciplinary gazes.

November 24-25, 2023 University of Turin CIRSDe (Interdisciplinary Center for Women’s and Gender Research and Studies – University of Turin is organizing the international conference Beyond Genders. Intersectionality between theory and practice. Interdisciplinary gazes. The conference aims to foster a multidisciplinary debate and to explore the state of the art of research and reflections on intersectionality. What are the perspectives through which intersectionality has developed over the years, and what are its applications? What makes its implementation complex, and what are the pitfalls to its effective applicability? Why do some areas of study seem to have a more fluid dialogue with this concept while others still prove refractory? What are the most effective research methods, and why? How is the concept of intersectionality being explored and debated in different disciplines? How can an intersectional perspective be developed in global contexts that necessarily have to come to terms with a past of colonialism and oppression? People interested in participating may submit a contribution: the deadline for abstract submission is June 15, 2023. More details can be found here

Call for papers | Symposium on Community, Psychology and Climate Justice

This symposium focuses on psychology and climate justice through the lens of community. Selected papers will be invited to submit a chapter to an edited collection after the symposium. Please submit extended abstracts of no more than 800 words covering one more of the above topics. The closing date for abstract submissions is 30 March 2023.