Carleton University’s MacOdrum Library, the Graduate Student Association (GSA), and the Office of the Vice President (Research & International) (OVPRI) recently announced the winners of the 2015-2016 Graduate Student Open Access Award. These monetary awards of $1000.00 were established to support Carleton University graduate students in publishing research in open access journals.
5 prizes were awarded this year, one of which to Psychology PhD student Colin Capaldi. You can access his article by clicking on the title below.
- “The relationship between nature connectedness and happiness: A meta-analysis” from Frontiers in Psychology (2014) 5:976.
Colin A. Capaldi is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University. He holds a BA and MA in Psychology from Carleton University. His research in the Carleton University Happiness Laboratory on the causes and consequences of human-nature interactions is funded through a Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. In collaboration with colleagues from Canada and around the world, Colin has published in several other journals including the International Journal of Wellbeing, the Journal of Environmental Psychology, the Journal of Social Psychology, the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, and the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science. The awarded article would not have been possible without his coauthors Raelyne Dopko and John Zelenski.