SCRA Fellows

Call for SCRA Fellows

What is a SCRA Fellow?

SCRA seeks to recognize a variety of exceptional contributions that significantly advance the field of community research and action including, but not limited to, theory development, research, evaluation, teaching, intervention, policy development and implementation, advocacy, consultation, program development, administration and service. A SCRA Fellow is someone who provides evidence of “unusual and outstanding contributions or performance in community research and/or action.”

Fellows show evidence of (a) sustained productivity in community research and/or action over a period of a minimum of five years; (b) distinctive contributions to knowledge and/or practice in community psychology that are recognized by others as excellent; and (c) impact beyond the immediate setting in which the Fellow works.

We encourage SCRA members from diverse backgrounds to apply including BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and representation from other marginalized groups.

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APA and SCRA Fellows

If you are an APA member and SCRA member and interested in applying for both APA Fellow and SCRA Fellow, you are invited to apply for both through the same application process. Your Fellow application will be initially reviewed by the SCRA Fellows Committee for SCRA Fellow and then passed along to APA for consideration for APA Fellow. If this is your interest, please indicate your intent to apply for both APA and SCRA Fellow status in your opening statement.

If you are a SCRA member but not an APA member, you may apply for SCRA Fellow status only. Please indicate your interest in applying for SCRA Fellow status in your opening self-statement.

If you are an APA member and a SCRA member but not interested in applying for APA Fellow at this time, you may do so in the future, but you will need to repeat the Fellow application process in the future (so it is double the work).

SCRA members who are Fellows of other APA divisions are invited to apply for SCRA Fellow status if they are SCRA members and have made outstanding contributions to community research and/or action. Fellows of other APA divisions should send to the Chair of the Fellows Committee a statement detailing their contributions to community research and action, 3-6 letters of support, and a vita.

It is highly recommended that applicants for Fellows status receive mentoring in the development of their application package from someone familiar with the SCRA Fellows review process.

Applications for Fellow status must include the following materials:

A 2-page Uniform Fellow Application;

3 to 6 endorsement letters written by SCRA members in the field who can identify your strengths in the area of Community Psychology. Note that in order to apply for APA fellowship you will need to have at least 3 letters of endorsement from current APA fellows.

Supporting materials, including a vita with refereed publications marked with an “R,” and;

A nominee’s self-statement setting forth her/his accomplishments that warrant nomination to Fellow Status.

Nomination Process: Complete nominations should be submitted electronically by January 3rd 2022 to fellows@scra27.org.

Past-President and current chair of the fellows committee Bianca L. Guzman will hosted a drop-in question and answer session around the application process. This event took place December 10th, 2021 @ 12:30 pm EST on the SCRA conference line. Here is the session video.

Questions regarding the Fellow application process should be directed to the chair of the Fellow Committee, Bianca Guzman at bguzman@calstatela.edu

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