SRCD 2027 Biennial Awards — Call for Nominations

About this program

The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) invites nominations for its 2027 Biennial Awards to be presented at the SRCD 2027 Biennial Meeting in Atlanta, including Senior Distinguished Contributions Awards, the Early Career Research Contributions Award, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards (with a $500 honorarium), and the Distinguished Contributions to Advancing Research on Child Development in the Majority World Award. Nominees generally must be SRCD members (with limited exceptions); early-career nominees should be no more than six years beyond the Ph.D. (degree obtained after January 1, 2013 for 2027 eligibility), dissertation awards are for dissertations completed in the previous year and must be nominated by the dissertation mentor, and the Majority World award prioritizes mid-career or senior researchers living and working in the Majority World. All nominations and required documents must be submitted as PDFs via the SRCD online portal by Monday, July 27, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET; inquiries: scholar@srcd.org and full criteria are available on the SRCD awards web page.