Funding

The SAMPL Lab is active in pursuing funding opportunities at the local, provincial, and federal levels. Our funding is used to support lab space development and infrastructure, student research assistantships, data collection, knowledge dissemination, and community engagement. 

Current Funding:

Summer 2024 Roger S. Smith Award

$10,000 awarded to promote undergraduate student participation in research. Congratulations to our RAs, Katherine Wujcik and Sabina Fassbender, who were the recipients of this award!

Alberta Advisory Committee for Educational Studies Grant

Project title: Mental Health Problems in Children with Learning Disabilities

$6,000 awarded for 1 year

Workers' Compensation Board (Alberta) Research Program Grant

Project title: Cumulative psychology injury program as treatment for burnout in injured workers: A sequential explanatory mixed methods study

$15,564 awarded for 3 years

Killam Research Fund Research Cornerstone Grant

Project title: Nature and Structure of Self-regulation in Early Adolescence: Still Acting Like Children or More Like Adults?

$49,200 awarded for 1 year

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant

Project title: Mapping the Development of Self-Regulation: A Multi-Factorial, Multi-Method Approach

$72,763 awarded for 2 years

Support for the Advancement of Scholarship Operating Grant

Project title: Understanding the Nature and Structure of Temperament in Preschoolers: Evidence-based, Multi-Method Approach

$7,000 awarded for 1 year by the Office of the Vice President Research and Innovation, University of Alberta

American Psychological Foundation John and Polly Sparks Early Career Grant for Psychologists Investigating Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED)

Project title: Multi-method assessment of Negative Emotionality in preschoolers: If my child looks sad, should I worry about depression?

$26,504 awarded for 1 year

Fall 2023 Undergraduate Research Award 

$2,500 awarded to promote undergraduate student participation in research. Congratulations to our RA, Sissi Kerboua, who was the recipient of this award!

Summer 2023 Roger S. Smith Award

$5,000 awarded to promote undergraduate student participation in research. Congratulations to our RA, Sissi Kerboua, who was the recipient of this award!