The purpose of the Dissertation Research Award program is to assist science-oriented doctoral students of psychology with research costs. The current program offers up to fifteen grants of up to $5,000 to students whose dissertation research reflects excellence in scientific psychology. The dissertation research may be in any area of psychological research.
Eligibility
- Applicants must have psychology as the primary focus of their graduate studies (even if they are receiving training in other fields as well).
- Applicants must be graduate student members of the American Psychological Association.
- Applicants must have had their dissertation proposals approved by their dissertation committees prior to application.
- Applicants must have not yet successfully defended their dissertations at the time of the application deadline.
- Students in graduate departments other than psychology are eligible to apply for the Dissertation Research Award only if they demonstrate that they are writing a psychological science dissertation and their graduate course of study has been primarily psychological in nature.
Deadline
Fellowship Website:
https://www.apa.org/about/awards/scidir-dissertre