THE UNIVERSITY OF
MINNESOTA-SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL invites applications for their 2018
Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development program. This program is a
three-year effort to expand and improve formal dissertation prospectus and
grant proposal development for humanities and social science doctoral students.
This program will select 12 graduate students to participate in the program,
which includes two five-day workshops and a student summer research with up to
$3,000 in funding. The application deadline is Friday, February 9. For more
information, see below.
Call for applications: 2018 UMN-SSRC Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development Program
University of Minnesota-Social Science Research Council Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development project is a three-year effort to expand and improve formal dissertation prospectus and grant proposal development for humanities and social science doctoral students at the University of Minnesota. In 2018 we will be selecting 12 graduate students to participate in the program, which includes an intensive five-day workshop in spring, followed by student summer research, and another intensive five-day workshop in the early fall prior to fall research grant proposal deadlines. Students will receive up to $3,000 in summer research funding and are required to register for a graduate seminar in fall 2018 as part of the program. The faculty facilitators work closely with the students on preparing research questions, literature reviews, identifying grant opportunities, work plans, and writing proposals and prospectuses; the students work together in peer groups as well. The goal is to increase student success in grant competitions as well as to refine a dissertation prospectus that may help the students better concentrate their efforts and reduce time to completion. The program targets students at the end of their second or third year (depending on department expectations) in graduate school, before defending their prospectus.
Applications to the program are due on Friday, February 9, 2018. More information and application instructions are available at https://ias.umn.edu/ssrc/appli
