Tag: Dissertation Grant

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The John Merck Fund: Developmental Disabilities Translational Research Program

Main Purpose: To support research that will help improve the treatment and outcomes of individuals with developmental disabilities, specifically Down syndrome and Fragile X syndrome. Interdisciplinary research is encouraged.

Benefits:

  • Ten awards are available of $1 million each ($250,000 per year for four years)

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Academic rank in a university
  • A record of research in areas relating to developmental disabilities
  • Scholarly commitment to a career in developmental disabilities research

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: Preliminary proposal due May 18, 2015, Full proposal due September 14, 2015

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Foreign Languages Health Professions Modern Languages Speech- Language Pathology and Audiology( AuD.)

Linguistics Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (Ling-DDRI)

Main Purpose: The Linguistics Program supports research regarding the human language including projects about syntax, linguistic semantics and pragmatics, morphology, phonetics, and phonology.

The program encourages interdisciplinary research, including questions such as:

  • “What are the psychological processes involved in the production, perception, and comprehension of language?
  • What are the computational properties of language and/or the language processor that make fluent production, incremental comprehension or rapid learning possible?
  • How do the acoustic and physiological properties of speech inform our theories of language and/or language processing?
  • What role does human neurobiology play in shaping the various components of our linguistic capacities?
  • How does language develop in children?
  • What social and cultural factors underlie language variation and change?”

Benefits:

  • Dissertation research grant
  • Direct costs may not exceed $12,000 plus indirect costs
  • 25-35 awards available

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Doctoral Student enrolled in a U.S. University
  • Principal Investigator must be advisor of the doctoral student or a faculty member at the U.S. university where the doctoral student is enrolled. The doctoral student will be the Co-PI.

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: July 15, 2015 and January 15, 2016

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Behavioral Sciences Counseling Education Law Psychology Psychology- Adult Development and Aging Social Sciences Sociology

Law and Social Sciences (LSS) Research Grant

Main Purpose: To support “research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between law or legal processes and human behavior.”

Research topics may include but are not limited to:

  • Crime, Violence and Punishment
  • Economic Issues
  • Governance
  • Legal Decision Making
  • Legal Mobilization and Conceptions of Justice
  • Litigation and the Legal Profession

Benefits:

  • Dissertation Grant, maximum $20,000
  • Funding for maximum of 12 months
  • Funding intended to cover costs not covered by the students’ university and is not intended to cover the full cost of the dissertation. Funding is only to cover costs directly associated with research such as:
    • Conducting field research in settings away from campus that would not otherwise be possible
    • Data collection and sample survey costs
    • Payments to subjects or informants
    • Specialized research equipment
    • Data transcription, analysis and services not otherwise available
    • Supplies
    • Travel to archives, special collections or seminars, and facilities or field research locations, and partial living expenses for conducting necessary research away from the student’s university

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Doctoral Student enrolled in U.S. academic institution, not required to be a U.S. citizen
  • Proposal must be submitted by the institution on behalf of the student

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: January 15, 2016

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Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SciSIPDDRIG)

Main Purpose: To help fund research that will “develop, improve, and expand models, analytical tools, data, and metrics that can be applied to the science policy decision making process. Proposals may also develop methodologies to analyze science and technology data, and to convey the information to a variety of audiences.”

Research topics that may be supported include:

  • “Examination of the way contexts, structures, and processes of science and engineering research are affected by policy decision
  • Evaluation of the tangible and intangible returns from investments in science and from investments in research and development
  • Study of structures and processes that facilitate the development of usable knowledge, theories of creative processes and their transformation into social and economic outcomes
  • Collection, analysis and visualization of new data describing the scientific and engineering enterprise”

Benefits: 

  • 1-3 grants are available with total funding equaling $60,000
  • Total direct costs may not exceed $20,000

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Doctoral Student enrolled in a U.S. University
  • Principal Investigator must be advisor of the doctoral student or a faculty member at the U.S. university where the doctoral student is enrolled. The doctoral student will be the Co-PI.

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: September 9, 2015

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Economics Research Grant

Main Purpose: To support research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. Multi-disciplinary and multi-investigator research is encouraged and emphasized. Funding is also available for “interdisciplinary research that strengthens links among economics and the other social and behavioral sciences as well as mathematics and statistics.”

Research in almost all areas of economics can be supported:

  • Econometrics
  • Economic history
  • Environmental economics
  • Finance
  • Industrial organization
  • International economics
  • Labor economics
  • Macroeconomics
  • Mathematical economics
  • Public finance

Benefits: This grant can be used for doctoral dissertation improvement, conferences, workshops, symposia, experimental research, data collection and dissemination, computer equipment and other instrumentation, and research experience for undergraduates.

Eligibility Criteria: 

  • Although not a requirement, proposals from junior faculty, women, underrepresented minorities, and Research Undergraduate Institutions are encouraged.
  • For Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants:
    • The dissertation advisor should be listed as the Principal Investigator and the student as the Co-Principal Investigator. It should be clear however that the proposal is written by, and the research conducted by, the student.
    • The Proposal Title should read, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: ….”

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: August 18, 2015

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Humanities Modern Languages

Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL)

Main Purpose: To support research that will contribute to the knowledge of endangered human languages.

Benefits: 

  • varies, 26-30 awards available
  • “Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases.”
  • Doctoral Dissertation Grants are available for up to 24 months

Eligibility:

  • Doctoral student
  • Dissertation that will advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages
  • The Principal Investigator must be the advisor of the doctoral student or a faculty member at the U.S. university where the doctoral student is enrolled. The doctoral student will be the Co-PI.

Additional  Information and Application Links: click here

Deadline: September 15, 2015

 

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Biology Environmental Studies

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in the Directorate for Biological Sciences (DDIG)

Main Purpose: To support research in the biological sciences, specifically in environmental biology or animal behavior.

Benefits:

  • $13,000-$16,000 research grant
  • Funds can be used for “participation in scientific meetings, to conduct research in specialized facilities or field settings, and to expand an existing body of dissertation research.”

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Student must have advanced to candidacy for a Ph.D. before the proposal deadline
  • Student must be enrolled in a U.S. institution but citizenship is not required

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: October 8, 2015

 

 

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Engineering Engineering, Electrical and Computer Physical Sciences

Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants

Main Purpose:  To support research that will “produce outcomes that address pertinent problems and issues at the interface of science, technology, and society, such as those having to do with practices and assumptions, ethics, values, governance, and policy.”

Benefits: 

  • Maximum $15,000- $18,000 dissertation improvement grant
  • Can be used for conducting field research, data collection and sample survey costs, payments to subjects, research equipment, travel, and partial living expenses if conducting research away from home university.

Eligibility Criteria:

  • For proposals, the dissertation advisor is the principal investigator and doctoral student is the co-principal investigator
  • Research must relate to science and technology

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: August 1 and February 1

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Social Sciences Sociology

Sociology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards

Main Purpose: To support doctoral dissertation research in all areas of sociology including societies, institutions, groups, and demography. “The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on:

  • Organizations and organizational behavior
  • Population dynamics
  • Social movements
  • Social groups
  • Labor force participation
  • Stratification and mobility
  • Family and social networks
  • Socialization and gender roles
  • The sociology of science and technology.

Benefits: Financial support for doctoral dissertation research. Funding can be used for data gathering, statistical or methodological training, meeting with other scholars, and field work away from student’s main campus.

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Doctoral student in sociology
  • Four Key Components of the Research Proposal
    • Based on theoretically grounded issues
    • Based on empirical observation or be subject to empirical validation or illustration
    • Research design that is appropriate for the research question
    • Research must advance understanding of social processes, structures, and methods

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: October 15, 2015

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Arts and Arts Administration Behavioral Sciences Business Administration Counseling Education Environmental Studies Foreign Languages Health Professions History Humanities Music Nursing Physical Sciences Political Science and Applied Politics Psychology Psychology- Adult Development and Aging Psychology- Organizational Social Sciences Speech- Language Pathology and Audiology( AuD.) Urban Studies and Public Affairs

The Awesome Foundation Grants

Main Purpose: The Awesome Foundation supports projects of all kinds that will  “conserve, sustain, and support the worldwide ecosystem of awesomeness. Projects have included efforts in a wide range of areas including technology, arts, social good, and beyond.” It is “a micro-genius grant for flashes of micro-brilliance.”

Benefits: $1,000

Eligibility Criteria: no specific criteria, a wide variety of people and projects have been funded.

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: ongoing, grants available monthly