Tag: Dissertation Grant

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Health Professions Humanities Physical Sciences

Biological Anthropology Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (BA-DDRIG)

Biological Anthropology Program Doctoral dissertation Research Improvement Grants (BA-DDRIG)

Main Purpose: To support doctoral students’ dissertation research in the area of human biology and ecology. This includes research regarding the evolutionary history that has shaped the biological diversity of human and nonhuman primates.

Benefits:

  • Anticipated $300,000-$400,000 per fiscal year divided into 15-20 grants
  • Proposals may not exceed $20,000 in direct costs

Eligibility:

  • Proposals must be submitted by the principal investigator (PI: faculty member serving as dissertation advisor) on behalf of the Co-PI (the doctoral student)
  • PI and Co-PI should be from the same university

Application Link and Additional Information: Click Here

Deadline: March 12, 2015, November 10, 2015, July 14, 2016, March 09, 2017, November 09, 2017, July 11, 2018, March 14, 2019, November 14, 2019, July 09, 2020- by 5 p.m. (proposer’s local time)

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Humanities Social Sciences

The Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Grants

Main Purpose: To assist students with funding doctoral or thesis research in anthropology that focuses on humanity’s cultural and biological origins, development, and variation.

Benefits:

  • Maximum award: $20,000, non-renewable

Eligibility:

  • Student currently enrolled in a doctoral program.
  • Apply jointly with dissertation supervisor or other scholar
  • Must complete all other doctoral requirements other than dissertation/thesis. Application may be submitted prior to completion but they must be completed prior to the research start date.

Application Link: click here

Deadlines: May 1 and November 1. Final decisions are made six months later

 

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History Humanities

Phillips Fund for Native American Research

Main Purpose: To provide grants for research in the areas of Native American language, history, and culture.

Benefits:

  • Average awards: $2,500, not exceeding $3,500

Time Limit: one year, however two awards are sometimes

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Young scholar who has received his or her doctorate -OR-
  • Graduate student working on a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: Monday, March 2, 2015 (annually March 1)

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Behavioral Sciences Health Professions

Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)

Main Purpose: To support research related to the nervous system, its functions, and nervous system disorders.

Benefits:

  • $100,000 to $250,000 per year

Time Limit: 3-5 years

Eligibility Criteria: Eligibility criteria is very broad. Universities, colleges, non-profit organizations, for-profit organizations, state and local governments may apply. Additional information about eligibility can be found here in section E.

 

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: October 29, 2015

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Behavioral Sciences Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Electrical and Computer Health Professions Nursing Physical Sciences Polymer Science and Engineering Social Sciences

American College of Sports Medicine Foundation Doctoral Student Research Grant

Main Purpose: To fund research conducted by doctoral students in the areas of basic and applied sciences.

Benefits:

  • Award Amount: $5,000

Time Limit: 1 year

Eligibility Criteria: 

  • Doctoral Student
  • Enrolled in program full-time
  • Current ACSM member when submitting application

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: January 15, 2016

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Behavioral Sciences Counseling Health Professions Nursing Social Sciences

EMDR Research Foundation: Doctoral Dissertation Grant Awards

Main Focus: To support research related to the effectiveness of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Benefits:

  • Maximum Award: $5,000

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Doctoral student in social work, psychology, or nursing
  • Completed all doctoral coursework
  • Have an approved dissertation proposal

Application Link: click here

 

Deadline: February 1 and July 1

 

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Behavioral Sciences Counseling Health Professions Nursing Psychology Psychology- Adult Development and Aging Social Sciences

Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality: Research Grant

Main Purpose: To fund research in the area of human sexuality. This research can be a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation, but this is not a requirement.

Benefits:

  • Award Amount: $1,000

Eligibility:

  • Student enrolled in a degree-granting program
  • Student member of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSS)
  • Research relates to human sexuality

Application Link and Additional Information:click here

Deadline: February 1 and June 1 annually

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Behavioral Sciences Counseling Psychology Psychology- Adult Development and Aging Social Sciences

Russell Sage Foundation: Small Grants Program in Behavioral Economics

Main Purpose: To encourage young scholars to conduct research in the field of behavioral economics and that contributes to the mission to improve the social and living conditions in the United States.

Benefits:

  • $7,500 (lifetime limit)

 

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Must be an advanced doctoral student -OR-
  • Post-doctorate (non-tenured) faculty member who has been out of graduate school for two or fewer years

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: applications are accepted on a rolling basis