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Welcome to the GradFund Blog

Welcome to the GradFund Blog

Follow the GradFund Blog for current advice and insights on best practices in applying for research support, written by the GradFund Fellowship Advising Team.

Strategies for Finding Smaller Awards

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Fellowship Advisor

This blog post examines strategies for finding funding opportunities beyond the common focus of Ph.D. students – the one-year or multi-year fellowship.

Filed Under: Advice, Announcements, Cross Stage Support, Dissertation Research, Humanities, Social Sciences, Understanding Award Types Tagged With: Research, research fellowships, Searching for Funding, small grants and fellowships

Applying for External Funding While you’re Funded

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Fellowship Advisor

Having funding from your university for your graduate degree should be a motivation to apply for external funding. In this blog, Dawn Wells-Macapia lists a few reasons why you should apply for fellowships and grants while you are still within your funding package.

Filed Under: Advice, Announcements, Biological Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Cross Stage Support, Humanities, Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering, Proposal Writing Advice, Social Sciences, Visual, Performing and Creative Arts Tagged With: appointments, planning ahead, planning your applications

Guest Blog Post Series: Building Community Power as We Re-imagine Our Future

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

Laurent Reyes, a researcher focused on civic engagement within communities of color in the United States, writes in this post about her work and the benefits of applying for external and internal funding opportunities.

Filed Under: Cross Stage Support, Dissertation Research/Writing, Dissertation WritingCompletion, Predoctoral/Postdoctoral, Success Stories Tagged With: explaining you work, RW Johnson, Social Work, success stories

Guest Blog Post Series: Funding International Fieldwork with a Fulbright

Posted on November 16, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

Will Aguado, a Ph.D. candidate in the Human Evolutionary Sciences track of the Anthropology Ph.D. program at Rutgers, describes his research experiences and the benefits of applying for a Fulbright IIE as a researcher doing fieldwork. He ends the post, providing advice for other students applying for external funding.

Filed Under: Announcements, Biological Sciences, Dissertation Research, Fulbright, Funder and Award Spotlight, Proposal Writing Advice, Social Sciences, Success Stories Tagged With: fieldwork, Fulbright IIE, research abroad, research fellowships

Guest Blog Post Series: Hooks in the Host Country: Making proper Use of the Affiliation Letter

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

Fulbright award winner, Emmanuel Aprilakis, describes his research in Classics, and how he made use of GradFund services to improve his application. He also provides advice to other students on the main steps to take to make grant and fellowship applications more competitive.

Filed Under: About GradFund, Announcements, Dissertation Research, Dissertation Research/Writing, Fulbright, Funder and Award Spotlight, Humanities, Predissertation, Proposal Writing Advice, Social Sciences, Success Stories Tagged With: archival research, Fulbright, humanities funding, international research

Guest Blog Post Series: Reinventing Oneself and How I Used Funding Applications as Opportunities to Develop My Graduate Training

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

Rutgers’ Ph.D. Candidate in History, Eri Kitada, shares her research and speaks on the skills that applying for external fellowships during graduate school can give you and the benefits of grant writing beyond academia.

Filed Under: Announcements, Cross Stage Support, Humanities, International Students, Proposal Writing Advice, Revise Tagged With: advice, history, international students

Guest Blog Post Series: Enabling Multi-Country Fieldwork with Funding

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

PhD candidate in Sociology at Rutgers University, Niina Vuolajarvi who works on the connections between migration, sex work, and precarity, describes her research and experience with external funding and provides students with advice on how to apply for fellowships and awards.

Filed Under: Advice, Announcements, Cross Stage Support, Dissertation Research, Dissertation Research/Writing, Dissertation WritingCompletion, Fulbright, Humanities, International Students, Postdoctoral, Proposal Writing Advice, Social Sciences, Success Stories Tagged With: advice, fellowship application, fieldwork, international research, international students, success stories

Guest Blog Post Series: Success Comes with a Second Set of Eyes

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

In this post, Rutgers History Department’s Ph.D. student Bren Sutter explains how receiving feedback from a trusted friend or colleague on your application materials help your narrative to be clearer and more convincing.

Filed Under: Advice, Announcements, Dissertation Research, Dissertation Research/Writing, Humanities, Proposal Writing Advice, Revise, Success Stories Tagged With: fellowship application, Seeking and Receiving Feedback

Guest Blog Post Series: Grant Applications, Archival Research and Developing a Strong Dissertation Project

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

In this post, a graduate student in the Department of History at Rutgers, Catherine Babikian, describes how applying for grants and fellowships allowed her to carry the necessary archival research to complete her dissertation.

Filed Under: Advice, Announcements, Dissertation Research, Dissertation Research/Writing, Humanities, Predissertation, Predoctoral/Postdoctoral, Proposal Writing Advice, Revise, Success Stories Tagged With: archival research, humanities funding

Title: Guest Blog Post Series: Grant Writing as Dissertation Writing – Advice from an Archival Researcher

Posted on October 12, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

Theater researcher, Nicole Sheriko, describes how applying for external funding has enabled her to advance her research and provides advice for other graduate students applying for grants and fellowships.

Filed Under: Advice, Archive, Cross Stage Support, Dissertation Research/Writing, Dissertation WritingCompletion, Humanities, Proposal Writing Advice, Social Sciences, Success Stories Tagged With: ACLS/Mellon, applying for multiple awards, humanities funding

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