Department deadline: December 20, 2023 Submit electronically to Laura Thomas lshirley@umich.edu
Grants are made available to students in the School of Social Work’s Joint Doctoral Program and are intended to support international research initiatives. Students are selected based on their past work, current Doctoral studies, research plans, and future career goals. Students must be in good academic standing to apply for this award.
Note: students are eligible for this award if they received a Meyer, Curtis or Kellogg Scholarship within the same year. In addition, students are eligible to apply to this grant up to two times during their time in the Joint Doc Program, but preference will be given to first-time applicants.
OGA/Global Social Work Learning Community Doctoral Grants for International Research Application
The Rosemary Sarri Endowed Scholarship was established by gifts from alumni and friends to honor Rosemary Sarri, PhD, on her retirement from her distinguished teaching and research career at the UM School of Social Work. Dr. Sarri generously matched these contributions to double the amount of the fund. This award provides two scholarships, one for students in the MSW program and one for the students in the Joint PhD Program who have interest in community change, policy and political social work, management and leadership or program evaluation and applied research. Preference is given to students with financial need.
Department deadline: December 1, 2023 Submit electronically to Laura Thomas lshirley@umich.edu
This award is given to one or more students whose research is on integrating practice, research, and ethical issues.
Department deadline: January 19, 2024 Submit electronically to Todd Huynh thuynh@umich.edu
The Barbour Scholarships were endowed at the University of Michigan in 1917 by Levi Lewis Barbour for women of the highest academic and professional caliber from countries encompassing the large region extending from Turkey in the west to Japan and the Philippines in the east to study modern science, medicine, mathematics, and other academic disciplines and professions critical to the development of their native lands. Recipients will be selected as part of the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship awarding process, as further outlined below.
Department deadline: January 19, 2024 Submit electronically to Todd Huynh thuynh@umich.edu
The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students who have achieved candidacy and are actively working on dissertation research and writing. We seek to support students working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious, and impactful.
Rackham deadline: February 15, 2024 This student-initiated application must be submitted directly to Rackham.
The Rackham Graduate School announces the 2023-24 Rackham International Research Awards (RIRA) to support doctoral and master’s students conducting degree-related research outside the United States and Puerto Rico. There is no preference for particular fields of study and Rackham and the International Institute aim to fund a diverse array of students and projects.
Rackham deadline: March 2024 This student-initiated application must be submitted directly to Rackham
The King-Chavez-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship Program is funded by the State of Michigan’s KCP Initiative. The purpose of the Future Faculty Fellowship Program is to increase the pool of academically or economically disadvantaged candidates pursuing faculty teaching careers in postsecondary education. Preference may not be given to applicants on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender, or national origin. Applications are encouraged from people with disabilities, and individuals from cultural, linguistic, geographic, and socio-economic backgrounds who would otherwise not adequately be represented in the graduate student and faculty populations.
King-Chavez-Parks Initiative, Future Faculty Fellowship Program
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