Deadline: 12 May 2014
United States National Institute of Justice is accepting grant applications for Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. The call aims to provide grant to graduate candidates to complete dissertation research.
The program provides awards for research on crime, violence, and other criminal justice-related topics to accredited academic institutions that offer research-based doctoral degrees in social and behavioral academic disciplines relevant to NIJ’s mission.
Students who demonstrate the potential to successfully complete doctoral degree programs in disciplines relevant to the mission of NIJ and who are in the final stages of graduate study are supported under the program.
Eligibility Criteria –
- Applicants sponsoring doctoral students are eligible to apply only if the doctoral research dissertation has direct relevance to providing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to better prevent and control crime and ensure the fair and impartial administration of criminal justice in the United States.
- Only degree-granting educational institutions in the United States are eligible to apply.
- Applying institution must be fully accredited by one of the regional institutional accreditation agencies recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
- Applying institution must apply as the sponsoring institution for the doctoral candidate conducting criminal justice-related research in a discipline relevant to NIJ’s mission.
- The doctoral student (selected by eligible institution) must have completed all required course work, must have passed qualifying comprehensive exams and must be advanced to candidacy by the university to be eligible for the fellowship program.
For more information, please visit grants.gov and search for funding opportunity number NIJ-2014-3739. Click Full Solicitation and read the document thoroughly.
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