Awards and Honours

Fellowships
The Society recognises and honours psychologists' achievements and contributions to the profession through a prestigious honours system of Fellowships and Associate Fellowships.   

Awards and Scholarships
Click here for the 2011 award recipients.
The Society offers a number of awards and scholarships to members and trainee psychologists to recognise and encourage excellence in research and practice in psychology.Nominations for the 2012 Awards are now open as the awards will be conferred earlier this year at the joint NZPsS/NZCCP conference in April 2012.
Please send nominations to membership@psychology.org.nz

Nominations are now open for the 2012 NZPsS awards- which will be presented at the joint NZPsS/NZCCP conference in Wellington - April 20-23 2012.

The CJ Adcock Award

This award recognises an individual who has made valuable and significant contributions to scholarship and research in psychology in the past five years in any of the following fields:the philosophy of science, psychological theory, quantitative research methods, personality, cognition, perception, linguistics, experimental psychology.
The recipient of the Adcock Award receives $500.

Nominations close -29 February 2012

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Public Interest Award

Aims of the award
The Public Interest Award recognises valuable contributions to psychology in the service of the public interest. This might include but is not restricted to minorities or oppressed groups, educational matters, social or community problems, unemployment, mental health and psychological aspects of law.

Nature of the award
The New Zealand Psychological Society will make a donation of $500 to the charity of choice of the recipient of the Public Interest Award.

Eligibility criteria
Nominees may be current members of the Society or they may be persons who are not members but who have made significant and valuable contributions in the service of the public interest in areas of concern to psychologists. For either member or non-member nominees the contributions being recognised in the nomination would normally have been made in the years immediately preceding the nomination. In assessing any nomination the Awards Committee will consider both the extent and significance of the public interest contribution made by the nominee, and also its impact on and significance to psychologists and the discipline and practice of psychology.

Closing date for nominations February 29, 2012 

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Early Career Goddard Award-Applied Psychology

Aims of the award
The Goddard Award recognizes early career achievement and excellence in applied and professional psychology "Early career" is defined as up to seven years post completion of the nominee's highest postgraduate award (i.e., Honours, Masters or PhD) in psychology.
Areas applied and professional psychology include (but not limited to) applied behaviour analysis, clinical psychology, counselling psychology, educational psychology, environmental psychology, forensic psychology, health psychology, human factors/ergonomics, kaupapa Māori psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, neuropsychology, psychogerontology, psychometrics/individual differences, psychological ethics, or any other area of applied or professional psychology.
In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of the Chair of the Awards Committee, a nominee whose work does not clearly fall in these areas noted may be considered for the Award. In such a case, or in any other case where there is doubt about the suitability of a potential nominee, the advice of the Awards Committee should be sought prior to a nomination being made.

Nature of the award
The recipient of the GV Goddard Award receives $500 and one year's free membership of the Society. The Award is offered every second year alternating with the other Goddard early career award.

Eligibility criteria
Nominees must have completed the work they are to be recognized for within seven years of graduating from a New Zealand university. Nominees must have an Honours or Masters, degree (or equivalent) or PhD (or equivalent).
The Award will be based upon published work that is based on the nominee's postgraduate research (undertaken as part of a Masters thesis/dissertation project or Doctoral thesis/dissertation) and or applied psychology work undertaken since the completion of their highest postgraduate award. While nominees are required to be New Zealand graduates, the work recognized in the Award may include work done in other countries and /or in international collaborations.
Nominees are not required to be current members of the Society at the time of nomination but they do need to be eligible for membership.

Closing date- February 29, 2012

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Presidents scholarship - Karahipi Tumuaki - President's Scholarship 2012

A post-graduate scholarship for Maori students and intern/trainee psychologists
The Scholarship is valued at $2000 plus one year's free membership of the Society. If the recipient is a Full Member of the Society, the subscription fee will be waived for one year. If the recipient is not a member, they will receive a year's free subscribership to the Society. The benefits of free subscribership include mailed copies of member periodicals and access to professional development activities at preferential rates.
Applicants will:

• Identify ethnically as Maori and be involved in the Maori community
• Be enrolled in any one of the following:
  - Masters Degree in Psychology
  - Doctoral Degree (e.g. PhD or DClinPsy)
  - Postgraduate Diploma programme that is a direct pathway to registration as a psychologist 
• Approved supervision pathway that leads to registration as a psychologist (i.e., Defence, CYFS, Department of Corrections)
• Engage in research that advances Māori aspirations and development in psychology and the community.

Applications close on 16 March, 2012

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Recipients of Awards in 2011

The Society is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2011 awards. 

The Ballin Award

Dr Suzanne Blackwell
Dr Suzanne Blackwell has been awarded the Ballin Award. This award recognises a Member/Fellow of the Society who has made a notably significant contribution to the development or enhancement of clinical psychology in New Zealand. Dr Blackwell has a long history of working collaboratively in criminal justice psychology in both New Zealand and Australia. She is widely recognised for her use of scientific research and clinical skills in forensic work with children and has thus facilitated the opening up of new areas for clinical psychologists in this country.

The G.V. Goddard Award

Dr Dione Healey
The G.V Goddard award recognizes early career achievement and excellence in research and scholarship in basic psychological science. In terms of both the quality and quantity of her published research, Dr Dione Healey is a very worthy recipient of the G.V. Goddard award having generated excellent research in clinical psychology focusing on children with behavioural problems. Dr Healey has examined the predictors of impairment in hyperactive or inattentive children, and has shown for the first time that child temperament, parenting style and mother-child synchrony all contribute to symptom severity.

Dame Marie Clay Award

Professor Ian Evans
The Dame Marie Clay award recognises valuable contributions to educational and developmental psychology in NZPsS members through original research (researcher) the dissemination of research (teacher) or best practice (exemplary practitioner).
Over many years, Professor Ian Evans has significantly contributed to the development of both clinical and educational psychology through his research and teaching. In recent years he has led a research team investigating the role of primary school teachers in the development of children's emotional competence.

 Karahipi Tumuaki- President's Scholarship

Tess Chalmers
The President's scholarship is awarded to Māori postgraduate students who are active in the Māori community and who are enrolled for a degree requiring a piece of research as part of either a Masters or higher level post-graduate degree in psychology. The research must be Māori-centred and related to the betterment of the Māori community.
The 2011 recipient of the scholarship is Tess Chalmers. Tess is of Te Arawa descent, Ngati Whakaue Hapu, and is from the Bay of Plenty. She commenced her studies in psychology at the University of Waikato in 2007 and completed her honours degree through the institution last year. In 2011 she began study towards a Doctor of Clinical Psychology at Massey University in Auckland, with the desire to become a clinical psychologist and work within the Department of Corrections. The research she is undertaking reflects this future ambition, as it attempts to explore the effectiveness of Waikeria Prison's Maori Focus Unit (MFU).