Deadline: 2 March 2017
The Social Security Administration’s (SSA’s) Analyzing Relationships between Disability, Rehabilitation and Work (ARDRAW) Small Grant Program is a one-year $10,000 stipend program awarded to graduate-level students to conduct supervised independent research designed to foster new analysis of work, rehabilitation, and disability issues, which may develop innovative and fresh perspectives on disability. ARDRAW replaces the 5-year grant called the Disability Determination Process Small Grant Program, with a new focus on research relevant to SSA’s work incentives and employment supports – specifically rehabilitation, work and the disability program.
Research Areas
- Working conditions of SSA beneficiaries
- Work accommodations and needs of SSA beneficiaries
- Non-competitive employment for SSA beneficiaries
- Vocational and other types of service use by SSA beneficiaries
- Non-SSA assistance provided to SSA beneficiaries
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be masters, doctoral, or post-doctoral-level part-time or full-time graduate students pursuing studies in accredited programs at the time of the award (Fall semester of 2017) with an academic emphasis in topics of interest to disability programs, including, but not limited to, public health, social work, economics, occupational medicine, vocational and rehabilitation counseling, public policy and administration, sociology, psychology, education, medicine, employment, and law.
- At the time of stipend award, awardees must be citizens or non-citizen nationals of the United States, or must have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence.
- Members of minority and historically disadvantaged groups are encouraged to apply.
- Students are required to disclose if they are receiving any other federal funding for their research.
- Applicants may submit more than one proposal for consideration per year, but can receive only one stipend award per year.
Expectations and Deliverables
If chosen for this grant, each award recipient will be expected to:
- Participate in a welcome teleconference with other grant recipients, mentors, PRI, and SSA.
- Submit a detailed work plan followed by quarterly progress reports summarizing status of research activities
- Submit a letter of approval from his/her academic institution’s IRB
- Participate in quarterly conference calls with faculty mentor and PRI
- Submit a 10-15 page draft written research project
- Submit a 10-15 page final written research project
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit ARDRAW Small Grant Program.