This document summarizes funding resources for graduate students at UCSB, including internal and external fellowship opportunities. It provides an overview of the UCSB Source and Pivot databases for finding funding, lists some example education-focused extramural fellowships for early-stage and dissertation students, and outlines additional central awards and options for funding support through employment, departments, or financial aid. Resources for developing strong funding applications are also mentioned.
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Finding Graduate Student Funding Tools and Resources
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Finding Graduate Student
Funding
Education Department October 2012
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Finding Funding Tools
UCSB Source
UCLA Grapes
Pivot
Keywords: Education (And subfields), Counseling/Guidance (under
Social Sciences), Psychology (clinical), Cultural or Population
Studies (adolescents, ethnic groups, minorities, etc.)
UCSB Graduate Division
GradPost(gradpost.ucsb.edu)
Video Tutorials
Department Specific Funding List links
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Sampling of Education Extramural
Fellowships: Early Years
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship:
$30,000/3 years, STEM education/learning
Fulbright: study abroad, ~1 year
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Sampling of Education Extramural
Fellowships: Dissertation Stage
AAUW Dissertation Fellowships: women in final dissertation year, $20,000
APA Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Student Fellowship: child
psychology, $25,000 award (4) and $5000 for runners-up (2)
APA Esther Katz Rosen Fellowship: $25,000, work relevant to psychological understanding
of gifted children/youth
Ford Dissertation Fellowship: $21,000, engagement with students from diverse
backgrounds and using diversity of human experience as resource
UC/ACCORD Dissertation Fellowships: $20,000
This year: 1) critical transitions in underrepresented students lives, conditions for enhancing college
opportunities for underrepresented students, making higher education more accessible
National Academy of Education Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program: $25,000,
relevant to improvement of education (history/theory/practice formal/informal education)
American Educational Research Association
Minority Fellowship Program: minority graduate students working on dissertation, $12,000 stipend
and $1000 travel support for AERA conference, Nov
Dissertation Grant: research making use of large-scale data set, up to $20,000
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Central Awards
By Application
Brython Davis: children of U.S. Navy or Marine Corps members (possibility
for multi year), $6667/quarter
Affiliates Graduate Dissertation Fellowship: doctoral candidate,$3000 Fall
stipend
James Kline: promote international understanding, $1500-$2500
Humanities and Social Science Research Grant: doctoral candidates, up to
$2000
For details of the awards, visit: http://graddiv.ucsb.edu/financial/cont.htm
By Department Nomination
Many full-year fellowships
Discuss with department
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Other Options for Funding
Student Employment (GradPost)
TA-ships/reader (other departments too!)
Financial Aid (nathan.cook@sa.ucsb.edu)
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Resources for Applications
Funding proposal library
Workshops (writing, specific fellowships, etc.)
Peers and departments
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Questions?
Contact me at fundingpeer@graddiv.ucsb.edu
Stop by the Graduate Student Resource Center/Grad Post
headquarters
Dissertation grants—like STEM relevant work*Spencer—can see examples of what have funded in past*Accord does not cover tuition/fees*AERA—other internship-based fellowships (some post PHD)http://www.aauw.org/learn/fellowships_grants/american.cfm
Affiliates---say environmental focus but have been given to humanities beforehttp://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/funding-opportunities/