2025 SPARK Grant winners

The IACCP’s SPARKS Grants Committee is excited to issue the 2025 award announcements! CONGRATULATIONS to our seven teams of winners.

SPARK grants are aimed at supporting activities enhancing the visibility of the IACCP and cross-cultural psychology, and spark awareness, build local capacity, and spark networking among cross-cultural psychologists across or within regions.

We congratulate all recipients and their teams, and are looking forward to hearing about their activities!

• Laura De Pretto and Mohammed Hamza: “Culturally Sensitive Approaches to Environmental Sustainability: A Cross-Cultural Psychology Global Workshop”
• Deira Patricia Jiménez-Balam and María Teresita Castillo León: “Cross-cultural Psychology for Life”
• Aysheh Maslamani, Greg Maio, and Lukas Wolf: “Ambivalence towards Value Instantiations”
• Kongmeng Liew: “Cross-Cultural Psychology Preconference at SASP 2026”
• Hansika Kapoor, Sarah Rezaei, and Tithi Roy: “Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Psychology: From Extractive to Collaborative”
• Dang Tien Dung Nguyen and Kathy Trang: “Minds Across Cultures – Empowering Southeast Asia’s Next Generation of Cultural Psychologists”
• Jisoo Youn and Minji Cho: “Rethinking Career Theory Beyond U.S.-Centered Perspectives: Vocational Interests in South Korea”

The SPARK grants will be available again in 2026.