In the blog post, “Planning for Travel Funding,” we discussed finding grant and fellowship opportunities to fund dissertation research that requires you to travel to a research site. Today, we will discuss obtaining funding to attend conferences.
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Developing Your Research Training Plan
There are several graduate awards that fall into the category of “training fellowship”, with the most popular being the set of the National Institutes of Health’s F31 fellowships. These awards differ from traditional research fellowships in that they are offered to not only support research, but also to promote faculty mentorship that will enhance the student’s […]
Best Practice for Working with Recommendation Letter Writers
Letters of recommendations are a central piece of your application materials. Since they are usually confidential, you will not be able to know (or control) what recommenders say about you and your work. That being said, there are a few things you can do to maximize your chances of submitting outstanding letters of recommendations along with […]
How to Juggle Funding Applications and Multiple Other Responsibilities: The Fall Application Season
Graduate students, new and advanced, have the task of juggling many responsibilities each semester: coursework, research progress, and professional activities, with a little bit of social time mixed in. Now, while we are in the middle of summer, say your advisor comes to you and asks that you apply for a fellowship with a deadline […]
The “Thesis” Variable and the Fulbright-IIE Research-Study Grant
Series Note: GradFund recently conducted an extensive analysis of more than 100 past Fulbright applications in order to better understand what characteristics predict success. Using a number of different statistical techniques, we were able to identify three variables that consistently contributed to success: affiliation depth, literature citations, and the strength and coherence of the applicant’s […]
Literature Citations, Literature Reviews, and the Fulbright IIE Research-Study Grant
Series Note: GradFund recently conducted an extensive analysis of more than 100 past Fulbright applications in order to better understand what characteristics predict success. Using a number of different statistical techniques, we were able to identify three variables that consistently contributed to success: affiliation depth, literature citations, and the strength and coherence of the applicant’s […]
“Affiliation Depth” and the Fulbright-IIE Research-Study Grant
Series Note: GradFund recently conducted an extensive analysis of more than 100 past Fulbright applications in order to better understand what characteristics predict success. Using a number of different statistical techniques, we were able to identify three variables that consistently contributed to success: affiliation depth, literature citations, and the strength and coherence of the applicant’s thesis in […]
Describing Your Contribution To Your Field To Non-experts
When writing proposals, it’s important to inform the reviewers what impact your project will have on your field of study. For competitions where reviewers are within your field, it may be easier to explain to them how your innovative ideas differ from the current literature. However, funding competitions often use reviewers who are not experts […]
The Scholarship Breakdown
Graduate scholarships are awards that support academic expenses, such as tuition or fees, books, and research costs. They are usually smaller sums of money and are of particular importance for students completing professional and research-based master’s degrees, where little external funding may be available. They are usually provided by companies or professional societies to support […]
The Quest to Find Funding: Navigating Pivot
Hello, Doctoral Funding Mentoring Program Participants and GradFund Conversation Readers! Today, I will be introducing you to a helpful online tool, the Pivot Database. Rutgers subscribes to the service to allow students, faculty, and staff to find external funding opportunities. What is so neat about Pivot? Pivot is a robust database that provides information on […]