All BSl PhD's and Research Master students are invited to submit a paper!
Eligibility criteria
- Peer reviewed international scientific journal papers that appeared in print (available online counts as in print, please provide a DOI) in the period between 01.04.2024 and 31.03.2025 and are first authored by a BSI PhD student.
- Please note that every candidate may submit only one article each year.
- The manuscript needs to be part of the PhD dissertation or Master thesis as conducted at the BSI, or as conducted elsewhere (external PhD students; “buitenpromovendi”), but under the supervision of a BSI promoter/supervisor.
- The publication must mention the Behavioural Science Institute as an affiliation of the first author.
- Multiple submissions of the same article will be handled as one submission by the Best Paper cie.
- For PhD students, if the employment contract is finished at the time of submission of the manuscript, but the defence has not taken place yet, the manuscript is still eligible.
- The deadline for sending in articles for the BSI Best Paper Award is Monday 28 April, 2025.
Signing up
If you are interested in participating, you may register here.
Awarding extra efforts
To support outstanding student achievements, each year at the BSI day, a talented research master student is presented with a student award. We are well aware that doing research in behavioural science is more than writing high-quality papers. It means:
- Collecting data, sometimes in hard-to-reach populations;
- working with complex datasets or performing complex analyses;
- troubleshooting
- forging collaborations;
- sharing knowledge and skills.
These extra efforts can make a significant impact on science. Therefore, this award considers the extra efforts that can make a project thrive.
For the “Passion for Research Award," we seek nominations for students who excel not only as researchers but also as collaborative team members who have consistently exceeded expectations.
So this can be in terms of:
- writing the thesis;
- the process (for example, they put a lot of effort into data collection, forged important collaborations, go through great lengths to collect or analyze data, find creative solutions to pending problems or help others by sharing code or visualizing data);
- despite his/her/its personal situation.
If you or anyone else qualifies for this, this award may be for you or your (fellow) student!
Who
Students can be nominated by:
- their supervisor
- a peer
- they can self-nominate
Nomination letter
Would you like to nominate yourself or a (fellow) student? Please write a nomination letter of no more than ½ a page describing why the nominee should win the Passion for Research Award before 22 May. Supervisors are also more than welcome to nominate their students.
The nomination letter will be read by a committee.
Pitch & poster
Are you ready to showcase your research and connect with your fellow BSI colleagues? Join us at the Poster & Pitch session, where you'll have the opportunity to present your work and receive valuable feedback. You will not only learn from others, but you'll also receive compliments on your hard work. And the best part? You don't need to prepare a full presentation. Just a short pitch and a stunning poster will do.
Who can pitch?
Anyone who conducts research for the BSI can pitch. This includes full, assistant, and associate professors, research master students, PhDs (external/internal), postdocs, and research assistants.
Signing up
Please sign up your poster by 6 June, 2025.
Award
If you want your poster to be considered for the Best Poster Award, please send a digital version (PDF or PowerPoint) to the PhD Platform by 28 May 2025. Our intranet has more information.
Print your poster
If you are participating with a poster, please send your poster (A0 format) to the Copyshop at postprint-cf [at] ru.nl, and they will print it for you. After one or two days, you may collect it free from the Copyshop on campus. To ensure your poster is ready on time, we recommend visiting the Copyshop as early as possible, preferably between 2nd and 10th June. When printing, please use the BSI logo or poster template, which can be found on our website, and inform the Copyshop that you are printing for BSI Day 2025.
Location posters
On 12th June, please bring your poster to the BSI Day and display it on one of the poster boards (room MM 01.630, 1.640 or in the corner of Grandcafe De Iris) before the programme starts.
Preregistration
The BSI Open Science Award will this year be centred around preregistration (it is, after all, still the ‘Year of Preregistration’). Its purpose is to honour all that took action on pregistration, to showcase how much preregistrations were done within BSI, and to inspire each other.
Everyone affiliated with BSI is eligible if they have:
- Completed a preregistration;
- published research that was preregistered;
- received acceptance of a Registered Report (either Stage 1 or 2) since the launch of the Year of Preregistration (June 14, 2024).
Signing up
To receive the BSI Open Science Award, you only need to upload your preregistration, article, or acceptance of a Registered Report.
**Only one submission per person is allowed**.
Submissions need to be in no later than May 23th.
