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Cross Stage Support

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

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

Guest Blog Post Series: Do Your Best and Ignore the Rest: My Advice for Navigating Fellowship Applications

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

Are you in the earlier stages of your Ph.D. program and planning to apply for external funding? In this post Graduate Student, Amanda Williams provides students with advice on how to manage several applications during your pre-dissertation years.

Filed Under: Advice, Announcements, Biological Sciences, Cross Stage Support, Dissertation Research, Planning When to Apply, Predissertation, Predoctoral/Postdoctoral, Proposal Writing Advice, Success Stories Tagged With: advice for early graduate students, NSF-GRFP, STEM, writing advice

Guest Blog Post Series: It is Worth Applying Twice

Posted on September 17, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

Trying to decide if you should reapply for that fellowship or award? Tamar Lichter, Ph.D. student in Mathematics at Rutgers provides you with a few reasons why you should try again.

Filed Under: Announcements, Cross Stage Support, Early Graduate, Funder and Award Spotlight, Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering, Predoctoral/Postdoctoral, Proposal Writing Advice, Success Stories Tagged With: Funder Spotlight, NSF-GRFP

Guest Blog Post Series: How to Structure a Dissertation Research Grant Proposal

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

Ph.D. history student and winner of the SSRC International Research fellowship offers advice on what goes into a dissertation research proposal.

Filed Under: Advice, Announcements, Biological Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Cross Stage Support, Dissertation Research, Dissertation Research/Writing, Dissertation WritingCompletion, Humanities, Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering, Proposal Writing Advice, Social Sciences, Success Stories, Visual, Performing and Creative Arts Tagged With: dissertation research, grant application, proposal structure, proposal writing, student perspectives

Inside the Mind of a Fellowship Advisor: Understanding the Application Review Meeting

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

This post describes the GradFund Application Review meetings from the perspective of a Fellowship Advisor.

Filed Under: About GradFund, Announcements, Biological Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Cross Stage Support, Humanities, Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering, Social Sciences, Visual, Performing and Creative Arts Tagged With: GradFund appointments, GradFund services, Meeting with GradFund, working with an advisor

The Power of Specificity: How to Incorporate Expertise Into your Grantwriting

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

This post looks at ways to emphasize what is unique about your academic and scholarly background in your grant applications, instead of relying on generalized statements.

Filed Under: 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: describing your work, experience, previous research

Applying for Interdisciplinary Awards in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

This post explores a few ways to approach the concept of ‘interdisciplinarity’ while applying for funding in the humanities and social sciences.

Filed Under: Announcements, Cross Stage Support, Humanities, Proposal Writing Advice, Social Sciences Tagged With: diversity, interdisciplinary funders, writing for multiple audiences

The Personal is Political…and Fundable? Navigating the personal and the academic in funding applications

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

This post provides some tips for finding the most effective ways to select and present personal narratives within funding applications.

Filed Under: Advice, Biological Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Cross Stage Support, Humanities, Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering, Proposal Writing Advice, Social Sciences, Stage of Study, Visual, Performing and Creative Arts Tagged With: advice, integrating funding applications into your graduate career, Personal Statement

Consider these RSA Library Fellowships

Posted on July 27, 2020 by rutgersgradfun

The Renaissance Society of America offers a variety of library fellowships for scholars working in any field who require short term residential access to archival materials. This post provides a short guide through some of these fellowships.

Filed Under: Announcements, Archive, Cross Stage Support, Disciplinary Focus, Dissertation Research, Dissertation Research/Writing, Early Graduate, Funder and Award Spotlight, Humanities, Predissertation, Visual, Performing and Creative Arts Tagged With: archival research, dissertation research, humanities funding, library

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