Deadline: 15 September 2016
With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the American Educational Research Association (AERA) has launched call for proposals for its Dissertation and Research Grants Program. The program seeks to stimulate research on U.S. education issues using data from the large scale, national and international data sets supported by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, and other federal agencies, and to increase the number of education researchers using these data sets. The program supports research projects that are quantitative in nature, include the analysis of existing data from NCES, NSF or other federal agencies, and have U.S. education policy relevance.
AERA invites education-related dissertation and research proposals using NCES, NSF, and other federal databases.
Grant Categories
- Dissertation Grants are available for advanced doctoral students and are intended to support the student while writing the doctoral dissertation.
- Research Grants are available for faculty at institutions of higher education, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral-level scholars.
Note: Applications for both the grants are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics.
Award Information
- Awards for Dissertation Grants are up to $20,000 for 1-year projects. Grants are not renewable. In accordance with AERA’s agreement with the funding agency, institutions may not charge indirect costs on these awards.
- Awards for Research Grants are up to $20,000 for 1-year projects, or up to $35,000 for 2-year projects. In accordance with AERA’s agreement with the funding agencies, institutions may not charge indirect costs or overhead on these awards.
Focus Proposals
Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals that:
- Develop or benefit from new quantitative measures or methodological approaches for addressing education issues
- Include interdisciplinary teams with subject matter expertise, especially when studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning
- Analyze TIMSS, PISA, or other international data resources
- Include the integration and analysis of more than one data set
Eligibility Criteria
Dissertation Grants
- Applicants for Dissertation Grants may be U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents enrolled in a doctoral program.
- Non-U.S. citizens enrolled in a doctoral program at a U.S. institution are also eligible to apply.
- Applicants should be advanced doctoral students at the dissertation writing stage.
- Underrepresented racial and ethnic minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply.
Research Grants
- Applicants for Research Grants may be U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents.
- Non-U.S. citizens working at a U.S. institution are also eligible to apply.
- Applicants must have received the doctoral degree by the start date of the grant.
- Underrepresented racial and ethnic minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply.
How to Apply
Proposals must be submitted electronically via the given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit AERA Call for Proposals.