Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grant

Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grant is sponsored by American Psychological Foundation. This opportunity supports mission-aligned projects and measurable outcomes.

Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grant - American Psychological Foundation Ways to Give Toggle Submenu Franklyn Springfield Awareness Fund Impact Reports Toggle Submenu Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grant LGBTQIA+ people face many challenges in forming, defining, and maintaining families.

This program seeks to encourage the study of LGBTQIA+ family psychology and therapy through its support of promising graduate investigators whose research is oriented toward issues in this general area. Deadline: November 26, 2025 Amount: 1 grant of $9,000 This program is no longer accepting applications for the 2026 program year.

Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQIA+) people face many challenges in forming, defining, and maintaining families. This program seeks to encourage the study of LGBTQIA+ family psychology and therapy through its support of promising graduate investigators whose research is oriented toward issues in this general area.

Preference is given to advanced students who have demonstrated their commitment to this area through their dissertation research plans.

encourage talented students to orient their careers toward engaging LGBTQIA+ family issues through basic and/or applied research advance the understanding of problems faced by LGBTQIA+ families including those associated with cultural, racial, socioeconomic, and family structure diversity advance the understanding of successful coping mechanisms including sources of support and resilience for family members advance the understanding of clinical issues and interventions in the domain of LGBTQIA+ Roy Scrivner was a psychologist well-known for his passion and advocacy for the LGBTQIA+ community.

Scrivner founded APA’s Division of Family Psychology’s Committee on Lesbian and Gay Family Issues and received numerous awards for his contributions to LGBTQIA+ psychology. Scrivner became president of the Texas Psychological Association in 1992, becoming the first openly gay president of a state psychological association in the United States.

During his time at the Texas Psychological Association, Scrivner was an instrumental figure in repealing Texas’s law that prohibited same-sex sexual relations. Scrivner’s work has significantly impacted psychological representation of the LGBTQIA+ community, and his legacy lives on through the Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grant.

APF encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, gender, and geography.

be an advanced graduate student, in good standing, endorsed by supervising professor have a demonstrated commitment to LGBTQIA+ family issues detailed budget and justification letter of recommendation from faculty advisor Applications will be evaluated on: Please be advised that APF does not provide feedback to applicants on their proposals. Please review our Program FAQs for important details on the application process.

Loyola University Chicago “Bridging Identities: Understanding Family Dynamics among Black Transgender and Gender Diverse People” Kaylah Denis, Loyola University Chicago “Bridging Identities: Understanding Family Dynamics among Black Transgender and Gender Diverse People” Jason Schmidt Avendaño, University of South Florida “Family Connectedness and Emotion Regulation: A Social Neuroscience Study of Neural Responses in Intersectional LGBTQ+ Individuals” Muzi Nina Li, Purdue University “Development and Validation of the Chinese Sexual Minority Future Family Formation Grief (FFFG) Scale” JoonWoo Lee, M.

Ed, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Transgender and Nonbinary Peoples’ Experience of Relational Trauma with Parental Figures” Lamont Stanley Bryant, University of Virginia “Family of Origin & Chosen Family Social Support Dynamics Informing Sexual Gender Identity” Sara Bybee, University of Utah “Post-traumatic growth among sexual and gender minority families facing advanced cancer” Melissa Halperin Manley, Clark University “A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Sexual Minority Parents’ Experiences with Consensual Non-Monogamy” Em Matsuno, University of California, Santa Barbara “Efficacy of an Online Intervention to Increase Supportive Behaviors Among Parents of Trans Youth” Kimberly Pentel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy for Same-Sex Female Couples: A Pilot Study of the ACCESS Program.

” Shannon Dunlap, University of California, Los Angeles “Investigating the impact of transgender-related minority stress and parent-adolescent functioning.

” Sasha Canan, University of Arkansas “A Mixed-methods Study of Sexual violence and Familial Support in Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adults” Hongjian Cao, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro “Experiences of Stress and Romantic Relationship Among Same-Sex Couples: General Stress versus Minority Stress” Erin Burke, Yale University “What About Gay Fathers?

Hormones and Fatherhood in Same-Sex Male Couples” Shelby Scott, University of Denver “Understanding Unique Challenges and Communication in Lesbian Romantic Relationships: Developing Guidelines for Practitioners” Amanda Veldorale-Brogan, Florida State University Joshua Kellison, Arizona State University Marco Armando Hidalgo, DePaul University Brian Buzzella, Boston University Joanna Thome, Roosevelt University Allen Omoto, PhD, Claremont Grad University Anessa Flentje, PhD, University of Montana Kelly Blasko, Pennsylvania State University Charles Strohm, University of California, Los Angeles Abbie Goldberg, PhD, Clark University Katherine A.

Kuvalanka, University of Maryland, College Park Cara C. Bergstrom, University of Michigan Nanette K. Gartrell, MD, University of California Medical School, San Francisco Sondra E.

Soloman, PhD, University of Vermont Mary Jane Phillips, Georgia State University Kelly A. Blasco, Pennsylvania State University Geoffrey L. Ream, Cornell University Jelica Todosijevic, University of Vermont Abbie Goldberg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Kimberly F.

Balsam, University of Vermont Brian D. Carpenter, PhD, Washington University Kevin Pedretti, Stanford University Mary L. Lambert, University of Maryland Esther D.

Rothblum, PhD, University of Vermont Nanette K. Gartrell, MD, University of California Medical School, San Francisco Kory Floyd, PhD, Cleveland State University Charlotte J. Patterson, PhD, University of Virginia