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American Psychological Foundation Springfield Research Fund Grants: LGBTQIA+ Issues and Intersectional Stigmas (06/12/26)

The Springfield Research Fund Grants

Organization: American Psychological Foundation

Award amount: $21,000

Sponsor deadline: 06/12/2026

Description:

At the American Psychological Foundation, we are revolutionizing the future of psychology with the support of donors, grantees and valued community members. Together, we are reimagining ways psychology and philanthropy can intersect and change the world for the better. We leverage the power of philanthropy to advance psychological knowledge by investing in innovative research and applications that prioritize people and their wellbeing. The Springfield Research Fund Grant supports research of contemporary LGBTQIA+ issues in an effort to dispel stereotypes and other negative information that leads to prejudice and discrimination. The 2026 area of preference will be given to research that addresses intersectional stigmas.
Eligibility:
Faculty & PIs, Early-Career
Applicants must be early career psychologists no more than 10 years postdoctoral.

Applications Open for NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Early Career Workshop (02/13/26)

We are now accepting applications for the NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Early Career Workshop. This opportunity provides early stage investigators with training on how to transform their research ideas into competitive NIH grant applications. The workshop includes strategies for developing strong NIH proposals, navigating the peer review process, and building a professional network to support a successful research career. The application submission deadline is February 13, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

This workshop provides opportunities to gain insights from NIH program officers and scientific review officers on writing strong National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant proposals and navigating the peer review process. It also facilitates networking with NIH program staff and fellow early career researchers, exchange ideas, and connect with potential collaborators

Program Details
OBSSR will select up to 15 early stage investigators to present their research findings and participate in this one-day, in-person workshop. Selection will be based on an applicant’s first-authored research paper.

Key Dates

  • Application Submission Deadline: February 13, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET
  • Awardee Notification: May 1, 2026
  • Workshop Date (in-person): June 3, 2026

Eligibility Requirements

To qualify, applicants must submit one eligible article focused on the study of behavioral and social phenomena relevant to health. They also must—

  • Meet the National Institutes of Health’s definition of an early stage investigator.
  • Be the sole or primary author of a peer-reviewed, original research article, published or accepted between January 1 to December 31, 2025.

Global Call for Ideas: Templeton World Charity Foundation (02/13/26)

Organization: Templeton World Charity Foundation
Award amount: $5-20 million overall
Sponsor deadline: 02/13/2026
Description:  The Templeton World Charity Foundation is looking for ideas to form the basis of future funding priorities aligned with the Foundation’s purpose.
Ideas should be bold and innovative, with the potential to deepen or expand our understanding of ultimate reality and what it means to be human. We seek ideas for rigorous research programs that can impact how we each see the world and our place within it.
Recognizing that these discoveries may come from diverse sources we seek ideas that might illuminate and point to discoveries in three of our core areas of interest:
  1. the fundamental processes, structures and constituents of the natural world
  2. what it is to be human, as well as the various ways human beings can progress spiritually through their understanding and pursuit of virtues such as love, creativity, gratitude, forgiveness, spirituality, connection, and other positive concepts.
  3. the nature of transcendent divinity and human responses to it.
Central to TWCF’s mission is our commitment to meaning, purpose, and truth as realities that can be known and pursued. TWCF can fund curiosity-driven research on big questions that expand the horizons of humanity’s perspectives, without necessarily expecting definitive answers. We welcome bold ideas that have potential to generate new insights, even if those ideas may be seen as too risky or contrarian by other funders.
As well as discovery-focused research, we are also open to ideas for more applied programs in specific topics (see Core Funding Areas) that will lead to long-term future benefits for humanity.
Our current priorities and funded projects exemplify, but do not limit, the range and types of topics that we are interested in. A full description of the scope of our work can also be found in the descriptions of our Core Funding Areas (see section below). We invite ideas from a wide range of disciplines, spanning the natural and social sciences, as well as humanities like philosophy and theology. Interdisciplinary ideas that integrate insights from different perspectives through open-minded inquiry are strongly encouraged.
Eligibility:
Faculty & PIs

Call for Contributions: The ‘Good Life’ Data Challenge (02/15/26)

The LIVES Centre (the Swiss Centre of expertise in life course research) is launching the ‘Good Life’ Data Challenge, a large-scale collaboration using the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) to address a key question: What predicts the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting (psychologically rich) life thus far?

The call can be found here.  The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2026.

We invite researchers from across the social sciences to submit a theory-driven proposal (600-800 words) by February 15, 2026, using the online form provided in the call. Proposals may use any variables from the 1999-2025 waves of the SHP to predict responses to three new items that are currently fielded in the 2025 wave (data will only become available in 2026), in which respondents provide retrospective assessments of happiness, meaning, and psychological richness.

Selected teams will:

  • Be invited in spring 2026 to preregister their analysis plans and subsequently conduct their analyses once the 2025 SHP data are released in summer 2026.
  • Co-author a collective publication coordinated by the LIVES Centre, to be submitted to a leading international journal.
  • Receive CHF 1,000 per team upon submission of the final report.

Please consult the call for the timeline, selection criteria, and links to SHP documentation.