JANE BEATTIE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
for travel to the United States

We are pleased to announce that the Beattie Scholarship is now sponsored jointly by the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the European Association for Decision Making. On behalf of both organizations, we again invite applications for awards from the Jane Beattie Memorial Fund. This fund was established in memory of SJDM and EADM member Jane Beattie and her contributions to judgment and decision research. The purpose of the fund is to provide scholarships to subsidize travel to North America for purposes of scholarly activity by a foreign scholar in the area of judgment and decision research, broadly defined. Attendance at the annual SJDM meetings is one example of an activity that would be appropriate for support, but by no means the only one. Note that, although all scholars outside North America are eligible to apply, EADM is sponsoring awards made to members of that organization (including student members), so applicants should please be sure to indicate if they EADM members.

Applications will be accepted until 20 July, 2008.

The required application form can be downloaded from:
http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/joshua.klayman/more/BeattieForm.rtf

Submit applications via E-mail via attachments in Word, .rtf, or .pdf format to
JOSHK@UCHICAGO.EDU, with the subject "Beattie Application".

Alternatively, applications may be sent via post to

JBMF / Joshua Klayman
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business,
5807 South Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 U.S.A.

or by fax (addressed to Joshua Klayman / JBMF) to +1 773 834 9134.

The JBMF Committee (Peter Ayton; Joshua Klayman, chair; and Martin Weber) plans to make all award decisions by 22 August. The committee anticipates making one or two awards annually, in amounts ranging from approximately $500-$750 U.S.

About the Beattie Scholarship

Applicants should be scholars living and working outside North America who will use the award to help pay for travel to North America for scholarly activities associated with research in judgment and decision making. It is anticipated that most awards will be granted to early-career faculty or advanced graduate students at colleges and universities, but others will also be considered.

Applicants should submit the application form, along with a one page (single-spaced) description of the planned scholarly activity and a copy of their curriculum vitae. The activity may consist of attendance at a relevant conference in North America., or a visit to a North American institution. The description of activities should indicate the nature of the planned scholarly activity, with whom the applicant plans to work (if applicable), what the applicant hopes to accomplish with the visit, and why travel to North America is important to its accomplishment.

Awards will be granted on the basis of the committee's estimate of the prospective value of the proposed activity, its relevance to the field of judgment and decision research, the scholarly credentials of the applicant, and the extent to which the award would contribute to the applicant's success (including considerations of financial and academic need).

If you have any further questions, please e-mail Joshua Klayman at joshk@uchicago.edu