Doctoral Training Grants

Institutional Grants

• These grant types are offered by the educational institution that the student is accepted at. They can be funded by the federal or state government and are administered by the particular department or faculty taking the student. For example, at the University of California at Los Angeles, the Eugene V. Costa-Robles Fellowship provides $20,000 per year of financial support to four-year PhD students who want to eventually work as university or college lecturers or researchers. Should the student need to extend his studies, the department will be responsible for providing additional financial support. Other grants include the Graduate Opportunity Fellowship Program, UCLA Competitive Edge and Dr. Ursula Mandel Scholarship.

  UCLA Graduate Division

  1237 Murphy Hall

  Box 951419

  Los Angeles, CA 90095-1419

  (310) 825-3819

  gdnet.ucla.edu

Funding from Private and Charitable Organizations

• Medical charities such as the American Cancer Society (ACR) or interest groups such as the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) provide grants for doctoral training in specific subjects. The ACR supports cancer-related research through the provision of Research Scholar Grants, Mentored Research Scholar Grants, or traditional Doctoral Training grants and scholarships. These are for subjects such as oncology social work, cancer prevention, epidemiology or health policy that lead to the award of a PhD degree. These provide amounts such as $20,000 per year for two years, with the potential for an additional two years of funding. The IARR supports students in subjects such as communications, human development and family studies, psychology and gerontology.

  American Cancer Society

  PO Box 22538

  Oklahoma City, OK 73123-1538

  866-228-4327

  cancer.org

  IARR

  Department of Human Development & Family Studies

  Texas Tech University

  Mail Stop 1230

  507 College of Human Sciences

  Lubbock, TX 79409-1230

  [email protected]

  iarr.org

Grants.gov

• Grants.gov is a comprehensive and exhaustive online database containing details of thousands of federal government grants. These are managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and administered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies including the Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense and Department of Education. For example, through the NIH, financial aid is offered in the form of the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD and Other Dual Doctoral Degree Fellows, while the National Science Foundation offers the Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Projects for Developing Global Scientists and Engineers. The Department of Education offers the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program while the Environmental Protection Agency provides Fellowships For Graduate Environmental Study.

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  200 Independence Avenue, S.W.

  HHH Building

  Washington, DC 20201

  800-518-4726

  grants.gov