The American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS; APA Division 41) Broadening Representative Inclusion, Diversity, And Global Equity (BRIDGE) committee is dedicated to facilitating activities and developing opportunities within the psychology and law division that embrace, respect and value diversity. They are committed to the recruitment and retention of culturally and linguistically diverse students into psychology and law related doctoral programs, and faculty into psychology and law related academic and professional positions. The committee comprises academicians, researchers, clinicians, practitioners, graduate and doctoral students representing a diversity of backgrounds and expertise in the field. They have three awards programs that may be of interest:
- The Diversity Research Award supports research by graduate students who come from diverse backgrounds or work examining issues of diversity in psychology and law.
- The Access Path to Psychology and Law Experience (AP) program supports research involvement for undergraduates and terminal Master’s students from diverse backgrounds with the goal of preparing them for graduate training in psychology and law.
- The Travel Award supports student travel to the AP-LS annual conference, which will be held March 13-15, 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
For more information on the awards, please visit https://ap-ls.org/awards/.
The deadline for the application is January 15, 2025. They also encourage students to attend their annual conference to meet with faculty and students of Division 41. For more information regarding BRIDGE please contact the Chair, Dr. Christopher Bishop (bishopC@trinity.edu) and Co-Chair Dr. Jason Lawrence (jmlawrencephd@gmail.com).