Dissertation Research Fellowship, Grant, & Intern Opportunities
The University of California, Irvine, Grad Division and the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships provide prospective and current graduate students with information about fellowship opportunities and other available funding.
Office of Research and Graduate Studies
http://www.rgs.uci.edu/grad/finance/index.htm
Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships
http://www.ofas.uci.edu/content/
Scholarships
http://www.ofas.uci.edu/content/Scholarships.aspx
Dissertation Research Fellowships and Grant Support Opportunities and Internships are offered by:
ACT Summer Internship Programs
AERA Dissertation and Research Grant Program
AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research
AERA-ETS Fellowship Program in Education Measurement
American Association of University Women (AAUW): American Scholarships
American Association of University Women (AAUW): International Scholarships
American Psychological Association (APA) Dissertation Research Awards
Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Grants Program
Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)/Lumina Dissertation Fellowships
Child Care Research Scholars, Department of Health and Human Services
Congressional Black Caucus Fellows Program
ETS Fellowship and Internships
Ford Foundation Diversity Awards
Health and Human Services: Administration for Children and Families
Institute of Education Sciences Research Funding Opportunities
International Reading Association (IRA) Grants
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
Language Minority Research Institute (LMRI)
National Academy of Education Adolescent Literacy Predoctoral Fellowship Program
National Academy of Science: Policy and Global Affairs Fellowships
National Science Foundation (NSF) Awards
Organization for Chinese Americans
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship
Phi Beta Kappa International Student Scholarship
Phi Delta Kappa International Awards and Scholarships
President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship
Society for Research in Child Development
Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program
The Theodore R. Sizer Dissertation Scholars Grant Program
UC Accord Dissertation Fellowships
UC Irvine Eugene-Cota Robles Fellowship
UCI Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship
UC Irvine Graduate Opportunity Fellowship (GOF) Program
UC Irvine Faculty Mentor Program Fellowship
William T. Grant Foundation Awards
Outstanding Dissertation Awards are given by:
Association for the Study of High Education (ASHE) Outstanding Dissertation Award, Division J
Arts Based Educational Research SIG Dissertation Award
American Psychological Association Paul R. Pintrich Outstanding Dissertation Award
Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Dissertation Award
National Council of Measurement in Education (NCME) Dissertation Award
Phi Delta Kappan Dissertation Award
Politics of Education Association Dissertation Award
Dissertation Research Support
ACT Summer Internship Programs
ACT sponsors a Summer Internship Program, offered annually to outstanding doctoral students interested in careers related to assessment and educational studies. The eight-week program provides interns with practical experience through completion of a project, seminars, and direct interaction with professional staff responsible for research and development of testing programs and other educational services.
http://www.act.org/humanresources/jobs/intern.html
AERA Dissertation and Research Grants Programs
The goals of the AERA Dissertation and Research Grants Programs are (a) to stimulate research on issues related to U.S. education policy and practice using National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and National Science Foundation (NSF) data sets; (b) to improve the education research community's firsthand knowledge of the range of data available at the two agencies and how to use them; and (c) to increase the number of education researchers using the data sets. Underrepresented minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply. Dissertation grants are up to $15,000 for 1-year projects. Research grants are up to $20,000 for 1-year projects, or up to $35,000 for 2-year projects.
General Information: http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/
AERA/IES Dissertation Grants Program: http://www.aera.net/fellowships/?id=87
AERA/NSF Dissertation Grant Program: http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/diss_grants/DGFly.html
AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research
This fellowship provides support for doctoral dissertation research, with the goals of advancing education research by outstanding minority graduate students and improving the quality and diversity of university faculties.
http://www.aera.net/fellowships/Default.aspx?menu_id=48&id=88
AERA-ETS Fellowship Program in Education Measurement
This fellowship provides learning opportunities and practical experience in areas such as educational measurement, assessment design, psychometrics, statistical analyses, large-scale evaluations, and other studies directed toward explaining student progress and achievement. A joint initiative between AERA and ETS, fellowships in this program are for up to two years, and fellows are located at the ETS facilities in Princeton, N.J.
http://www.aera.net/fellowships/Default.aspx?menu_id=48&id=702
American Association of University Women: American Scholarships
American Fellowships support women doctoral candidates completing dissertations or scholars seeking funds for postdoctoral research leave from accredited institutions. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Candidates are evaluated on the basis of scholarly excellence, teaching experience, and active commitment to helping women and girls through service in their communities, professions, or fields of research.
http://www.aauw.org/education/fga//fellowships_grants/american.cfm
American Association of University Women: International Scholarships
International Fellowships are awarded for full-time study or research in the United States to women who are not United States citizens or permanent residents. Both graduate and postgraduate study at accredited institutions are supported. Several fellowships are available for study outside of the U.S.
http://www.aauw.org/education/fga/fellowships_grants/international.cfm
American Psychological Association (APA) Dissertation Research Awards
Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association offers two Dissertation Research Awards to provide monetary support to students who are currently preparing to conduct dissertation research. The awards provide financial support for promising educational psychology doctoral students who have submitted a study proposal and are preparing to collect their dissertation data. Two awards are given annually.
http://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/div15/#dissgrants
Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Grants Program
The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), with support from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC), sponsors a grant program titled: Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions. The goals of this program are to provide professional development opportunities to doctoral students, institutional researchers, educators, and administrators, and to foster the use of federal databases for institutional research in postsecondary education.
http://www.airweb.org/?page=818
Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)/Lumina Dissertation Fellowships
ASHA/Lumina Dissertation Fellowships aim to promote innovative scholarship by creating an intergenerational community of scholars who will examine social, institutional, and policy barriers to opportunity and student success. The fellowships are intended to advance new research questions, methodologies, and frameworks for the study of access and success that go beyond what is already known about critical topics related to, for example, college choice, financial aid, and student retention. The grant will fund eight to ten dissertation fellowships a year for a three-year period.
Child Care Research Scholars, Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) offers dissertation research support, conducted in partnership with State Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) lead agencies, regarding child care policy issues. Eligible Applicants are doctoral-level graduate students enrolled in accredited public, State-controlled, and private institutions of higher education, including Faith-based institutions of higher education, Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Tribally Controlled Land Grant Colleges and Universities (TCUs). Applicants may apply for project periods up to two years and will be awarded up to $30,000 for the first year and up to $20,000 for the second year of the project. Six individual grants are expected to be awarded. Letters of intent are due March 2, 2009, and applications are due March 30, 2009.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2009-ACF-OPRE-YE-0001.html
Congressional Black Caucus Fellows Program
The Congressional Black Caucus Fellows Program offers nine-month Fellowships for research and public policy analysis. Since its inception, more than 150 individuals have served as Fellows; many have progressed to full-time positions on Capitol Hill and in public policy organizations.
http://www.cbcfinc.org
ETS Fellowship and Internships
ETS offers several programs for scholars who either hold a doctoral degree or who are enrolled in a doctoral program in the field of educational research, measurement and related fields and who are interested in research opportunities. Areas of emphasis include the following: measurement theory, validity, natural language processing and computational linguistics, cognitive psychology, learning theory, linguistics, speech recognition and processing, teaching and classroom research, statistics, international large scale assessments. The program aims to attract women and minority graduate students to the field of education and related disciplines. Each graduate intern will receive $4,000 for the internship period. Interns will be reimbursed for limited round-trip travel from their university to Princeton, consistent with the Educational Testing Service travel policy.
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
The Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship grants awards at the Predoctoral, Dissertation and, Postdoctoral levels to students who demonstrate excellence, a commitment to diversity, and a desire to enter the professoriate. Annually the Fellowship awards approximately 60 Predoctoral Awards at $20,000 per year for up to three years, 35 Dissertation Awards at $21,000 for one year, and 20 Postdoctoral Awards at $40,000 for one year.
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/
Health and Human Services: Administration for Children and Families
Funds for Child Care Research Scholars grants are available to support dissertation research on child care policy issues in partnership with State Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) lead agencies. Funding is dependent on availability and government interest. Since 2000, grants have supported projects that add to our knowledge about the efficacy of child care subsidy policies and programs in supporting employment and self-sufficiency outcomes for parents, and providing positive learning and school readiness outcomes for children.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2009-ACF-OPRE-YE-0001.html
Institute of Education Sciences Research Funding Opportunities
The Institute of Education Sciences hosts a series of webinars related to research funding opportunities at the National Center for Special Education Research and the National Center for Education Research.
International Reading Association (IRA) Grants
IRA honors educators, authors, and others involved in reading and literacy efforts through nearly 40 awards and grants, which include small dissertation grants.
http://www.reading.org/association/awards/index.html
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
This Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability—selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise—to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in selected fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences.
http://www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html
Language Minority Research Institute (LMRI)
The University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute (UC LMRI) is a multi-campus research unit of the University of California. The major purpose of the UC LMRI is to encourage University of California researchers to undertake comprehensive and collaborative research that improves the schooling conditions and academic achievement of language minority youth by increasing understanding of the challenges they face, as well as the resources they represent for the state.
http://www.lmri.ucsb.edu/grantcall/index.php
National Academy of Education Adolescent Literacy Predoctoral Fellowship Program
The Adolescent Literacy Predoctoral Fellowship is administered by NAED with funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The program supports doctoral research aimed at improving literacy outcomes for middle and secondary school students. Fellows participate in ongoing training activities to interact with and learn from leading researchers in the field of adolescent literacy and in activities that promote building a community of scholars. Twenty fellows receive a stipend of $25,000, disbursed over a period of up to two years, to support finalizing the dissertation proposal and collecting data. Applicants should be a candidate for the doctoral degree at a graduate school within the United States.
National Academy of Science: Policy and Global Affairs Fellowships
The Fellowship Office of PGA administers predoctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowship programs in research-based fields of study.
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fellowships/
National Science Foundation (NSF) Awards
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/education.jsp?fund_type=2
NSF Education and Human Resources
http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=ehr
Organization for Chinese Americans
The Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) is the Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) partner with the Gates Millennium Scholars Program. In addition to increasing access to higher education for individuals from groups that have traditionally and historically been denied or discouraged from pursuing this path, this scholarship program provides opportunities for scholars to prepare for leadership roles in their professions and in their communities.
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans provides opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Program is established in recognition of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors and their family.
Phi Beta Kappa International Student Scholarship
Alpha Association of Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in Southern California funds and administers a scholarship program for foreign students engaged in graduate study in Southern California in academic institutions with Phi Beta Kappa Chapters. In granting scholarship awards, the academic committee considers both need and merit. The best students are awarded scholarships. Scholarship funds are not awarded to students who are not in need of the funds.
Scholarship guidelines are as follows:
- Candidates should be, as far as is predictable, in their final year of study during the 2009-2010 academic year. Evidence of registration for Fall 2009 is required before checks to awardees can be distributed.
- Candidates are expected to be pursuing a Ph.D. or the usual terminal degree in their field.
- Amount of award depends on the need and quality of the applicant.
- A completed application must include the following:
- A short essay on scholarly and professional ambitions (not necessarily limited to the space provided).
- 3 letters of recommendation from faculty members.
- A justification of need (rough estimate).
Contact Jonathan Lew, Graduate Division, 120 Aldrich Hall, ZOT 3180, jlew@uci.edu, for application information. Completed forms must be sent to jlew@uci.edu by March 20, 2009.
Additional information: http://www.pbk-socal.org/
Phi Delta Kappa International Awards and Scholarships
PDK’s graduate fellowships annually support Kappans who are pursuing graduate degrees at the master’s, specialist, and doctoral levels.
http://www.pdkintl.org/awards/gradfell.htm
President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship
The President’s Dissertation Year (PDY) Fellowship is intended for students in their final year of graduate school who are planning to pursue teaching and research appointments soon after the end of their dissertation fellowship year. This award is intended to assist graduate students with the completion of their dissertation and to enhance their qualifications as candidates for university faculty teaching and research appointments.
http://www.grad.uci.edu/diversity/cont_pdy.htm
Society for Research in Child Development
The Student and Early Career Committee (SECC) of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) bestows up to five non-renewable awards in the amount of $2,000 (maximum) for dissertation research proposals that merit special recognition and display the strong potential to contribute to the field of child development. Applicants must be SRCD members and have their dissertation proposals approved by their advisor. Submissions should be in the proposal stage (i.e., not completed). Students may apply for the award prior to dissertation committee approval, but funding will not be issued until the research project has been approved by the dissertation committee. Money is to be used for research costs or professional development related to the proposed dissertation project.
Eligibility criteria and submission guidelines: http://www.srcd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=454
Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program
The Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. These $25,000 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world.
http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/dissertation-fellowship-program
The Theodore R. Sizer Dissertation Scholars Grant Program
The Coalition of Essential Schools Theodore R. Sizer Dissertation Scholars Program aims: (1) to stimulate research on CES schools and practice; (2) to increase our understanding of the effectiveness of the ten common principles and CES practice, and (3) to encourage a new generation of scholars and educational researchers examining the CES philosophy. Researchers of color are strongly encouraged to apply. The Program invites dissertation proposals that examine the implementation and effectiveness of CES practices and/or CES schools. CES will provide up to five awards of $2000 each. In addition to the grant, award winners will receive a stipend to attend and present their research at the Fall Forum, CES’ Annual Conference.
http://www.essentialschools.org/pub/ces_docs/about/org/DSP_cfp.html
UC Accord Dissertation Fellowships
UC Accord offers fellowships for research that will support dissertation completion and inform Californians' about efforts to replace prevailing patterns of schooling inequality and disparities in access to higher education with equitable conditions and outcomes for children from all sectors of the state. Fellowship are open to UC graduate students in Humanities, Social Sciences, School of Education, and Information Studies. Applicants must be advanced to candidacy by the time funding starts.
http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/asis/grapes/detail.asp?recordno=531
UC Irvine Eugene-Cota Robles Fellowship
The Eugene-Cota Robles Fellowship offers two years of centrally-funded support which includes payment of student fees and a stipend of $12,500/year. Two additional years of support are awarded by the program. Nominees for this fellowship are required to have an "interest in an academic career in teaching and research."
http://www.grad.uci.edu/diversity/entering_crf.htm
UC Irvine Faculty Mentor Program Fellowship
The Faculty Mentor Program (FMP) forms an important link in the continuum of support for academically promising graduate students. This award assists recipients in acquiring and developing advanced research skills under faculty mentorship. It is designed to improve mentoring for UCI doctoral students who are not yet at the dissertation stage and have not yet advanced to candidacy and is expected to increase the number of students who complete their Ph.D. degree and successfully acquire a faculty appointment.
http://www.grad.uci.edu/diversity/cont_fmp.htm
UCI Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship
The Graduate Dean is pleased to announce a new fellowship for students nearing completion of their dissertations. The Dean will make 10-12 of these one-quarter awards for AY 2008/2009. This award has been developed as a complement to the Frances Benton Fellowship, which is effective spring quarter, and is being offered to free students who are nearing the filing stage of their dissertation from teaching employment.
http://www.grad.uci.edu/finance/graddean/index.htm
UC Irvine Graduate Opportunity Fellowship (GOF) Program
The Graduate Opportunity Fellowship is designed for the domestic applicant who has experienced educational disadvantage in their education. The fellowship offers three years of support. The first year, funded centrally, pays student fees and a stipend of $10,000. The program provides two additional years of support.
http://www.grad.uci.edu/finance/graddean/index.htm
William T. Grant Foundation Awards
The William T. Grant Foundation focuses on improving the lives of youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States by providing grants primarily for high-quality empirical studies.
http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/index.htm
Outstanding Dissertation Awards
Association for the Study of High Education (ASHE) Outstanding Dissertation Award, Division J
ASHE recognizies a doctoral student who, through his or her dissertation work, has advanced our overarching values in higher education; made innovative use of methods, extending the approaches available to conducting research in our field; integrated research and theory grounded in a variety of intellectual traditions into his or her own research; and suggestsed particularly insightful implications for improving practice (for Ed.D. dissertations), or generates and/or extends theory in potentially useful ways for researchers and practitioners (for Ph.D. dissertations).
Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) SIG Dissertation Award
The Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) special interest group for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) sponsors the ABER Outstanding Dissertation Award for the best Doctoral Dissertation that explores, is an exemplar of, and pushes the boundaries of arts based educational research. The award is intended for students who have graduated in the year preceding the award. One award is granted per year.
http://groups.google.com/group/ABER-SIG/browse_thread/thread/16be670e6a7a7c61
American Psychological Association Paul R. Pintrich Outstanding Dissertation Award
Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association offers the Paul R. Pintrich Outstanding Dissertation Award to recognize excellence in doctoral dissertation. The doctoral dissertation research must have been completed within the past two years. One award is given each year.
http://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/div15/#dissgrants
Conference on College Composition and Communication James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award
The CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee honors a graduate whose dissertation improves the educational process in composition studies, or adds to the field's body of knowledge, through research or scholarly inquiry.
http://wwwdev.ncte.org/cccc/awards/berlin
National Council of Measurement in Education (NCME) Brenda H. Loyd Dissertation Award
The Brenda H. Loyd Award honors an outstanding dissertation in the field of educational measurement.
http://www.ncme.org/about/awards/loyd.cfm
Phi Delta Kappan Dissertation Award
The PDK dissertation award recognizes the outstanding educational dissertation completed by a Kappan in the year of the award.
http://www.pdkintl.org/awards/gradfell.htm
Politics of Education Association Dissertation Award
The Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Politics of Education, the PEA Dissertation Award, is designed to foster and support graduate student research and publication on political processes and outcomes in organized education grades preK-16, from the United States and abroad. One aim is to highlight and reward scholars studying political issues in education, as distinct from the interdisciplinary approaches taken by policy studies. The PEA Awards Committee welcomes any nominated dissertation that addresses the politics of education, including, but not limited to, those that focus on questions of democracy, voice, governance, inequality/equality, power, authority, political accountability, interest group interactions, coalitions and agency at any level of analysis (federal/national, state/provincial, local).