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Awards of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society

This page gives details on awards of the STAR Society.
All nominations should be sent by January 31, 2008 to:
Petra Buchwald (Secretary / Treasurer)

1. STAR Lifetime Career Award

This award is presented annually to honour a current member of the STAR society who has a long and distinguished history of scientific contributions to one or more of the following areas: stress, coping, emotions and health.

Nominees must be (a) either 20 years past the granting of their doctoral degree or at least 50 years old by January 1, 2008, and (b) a Member of STAR. The award recipient will be asked to serve on a committee to select subsequent award winners.

Anyone, including a candidate him or herself, may nominate a stress researcher for the award. Nomination material includes: (a) nominee's curriculum vitae and (b) name, address, phone, fax, and email of nominator and nominee.

The award will be announced at the 2008 Conference Dinner at the STAR conference in London, and in the STAR newsletter. The winner will receive a plaque at that time commemorating the achievement.

Previous recipients of this award are:
Charles Spielberger (1998), Ralf Schwarzer (1999), Irwin Sarason (2000), Charles Carver (2001), Stevan Hobfoll (2002), Moshe Zeidner (2003), Jeri Benson (2004), Kazimierz Wrzesniewski (2005), Esther Greenglass, Knut Hagvet (2006), Christine Schwarzer (2007)

2. STAR Early Career Award

This award was established to honour early career achievement in the science of stress research.

Nominees must be (a) not older than 40 years by January 1, 2008, and (b) a Member of STAR. The award recipient will be asked to serve on a committee to select subsequent award winners.

Anyone, including a candidate him or herself, may nominate a stress researcher for the award. Nomination material includes: (a) nominee's curriculum vitae; (b) three major papers or publications; (c) 1 - 2 letters of support; and (d) name, address, phone, fax, and email of nominator and nominee.

The award will be announced at the 2008 Conference Diner at the STAR conference in London, and in the STAR newsletter. The winner will be invited to give an address at the 2008 STAR conference and will receive a plaque at that time commemorating the achievement.

Previous recipients of this award are:
Joachim Stöber (1999), Emine Erktin (2000), Nazanin Derakshan (2001), Hector Gonzalez-Ordi (2002), Iva Stuchlikova (2003), Aleksandra Luszczynska (2004), Urte Scholz (2005), Nina Knoll (2006), Brian Hughes (2007)

3. STAR Student Development Award

The STAR society offers a student paper competition for the best paper on stress, anxiety and coping in theory, practice or research.

Deadline is February 20, 2008.

Previous recipient of this award are:
Tobias Ringeisen (2006), Brian Hall (2007)

Benefits:

  • Free registration for the next STAR conference (including conference dinner)
  • Free STAR membership for 1 year (including the journal ”Stress, Anxiety, and Coping”)
  • Cash prize of € 100.-.
  • Enhancement of curriculum vitae and international recognition.
  • Plaque presented at the 2007 STAR conference in Bavaro-Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) at the conference dinner.
  • Paper will be reviewed for publication in Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, the official publication of the STAR Society

Eligibility and how to apply for the competition?

The paper submitted for this award must be based on work conducted by the first author during his/her graduate studies. Papers can be based on (but are not restricted to) Master's thesis or doctoral dissertation. The paper must be an unpublished manuscript and, in cases of multiple authorships which recognise supervisors’ contributions, the nominee must be the first author.

Papers should be in APA style, not exceeding 25 pages in length (including tables, figures, and reference) or 6500 words, respectively. Please include a separate title page without author(s) names so that the papers can be judged "blind. Submissions should include a cover letter with your mailing address, telephone number and e-mail address and be sent in two modes: 1) three hard copies and 2) an email attachment.

Please send your submission and address any queries to:

PD Dr. Petra Buchwald
Heinrich Heine-University Duesseldorf
Department of Education and Counselling
Universitaetsstr. 1
D-40225 Duesseldorf
Germany

buchwald@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de
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