NSF: Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences and Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field and archival research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Funds may be used for valid research expenses which include, but are not limited to, conducting field research in settings away from campus that would not otherwise be possible, data collection and sample survey costs, payments to subjects or informants, specialized research equipment, analysis and services not otherwise available, supplies, travel to archives, travel to specialized collections and facilities or field research locations, and partial living expenses for conducting necessary research away from the student's university.

Amount: $7,500 or less
Deadline(s):

Proposals due at anytime -- Decision Risk and Management (Target Date)
February 15 and October 15 – Sociology (Target Date)
January 18 and August 18 -- Economics (Target Date)
Proposals due at anytime -- Archaeology (Target Date)
January 1 and August 1 -- Cultural Anthropology (Target Date)
January 15 --Political Science (Deadline Date)
January 15 and July 15 --Linguistics (Target Date)
January 15 and July 15 --Perception, Action and Cognition (Target Date)
January 15 and August 15 --Law and Social Science (Target Date)
February 1 and August 1 -- Science and Technology Studies (Target Date)
February 1 and August 1 -- Societal Dimension of Engineering Science and Technology (Target Date)
February 9 and August 16 – Physical Anthropology (Deadline Date)
February 15 and October 15 – Geography & Regional Science (Deadline Date)

For further information, visit: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05574/nsf05574.htm