Conferences and Fellowships
Annual Research Conferences
Conferences are an important part of the life of academics, aspiring academics, and others interested in participating in discussions of the latest research in education. They are also central to helping you become more visible as a scholar, and to developing a network of peers with whom you may someday collaborate or join as a colleague. Below are links to the most widely known conferences for the study of education.
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) Annual Conference: March Submission deadline: fall | |
NBER Economics of Education Program Annual Research Meetings: (i) November; (ii) May; (iii) late-July (part of Labor Studies) | Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference: early to mid-November Submission deadline: NA |
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Conference: early November Submission deadline: March | American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference: late April Submission deadline: early August |
Major Fellowship Competitions
Conducting research can sometimes be expensive. Although it is unlikely that you’ll ever secure enough research funding to conduct a project exactly the way you would like, it doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t explore all available options to support your research endeavor. For graduate students, a fellowship is a welcome prospect because it helps free you to do your best work. Below you will find several well-known, competitive fellowship awards. Keep these in mind, particularly as you approach your dissertation. HGSE students have won these and other awards. With foresight and planning, you too might be among them.
National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program
The Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. These $25,000 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world. DEADLINE: early October
AERA Dissertation Grants Program
The program seeks to stimulate research on U.S. education issues using data from the large-scale, national and international data sets supported by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, and other federal agencies, and to increase the number of education researchers using these data sets. The program supports research projects that are quantitative in nature, include the analysis of existing data from NCES, NSF or other federal agencies, and have U.S. education policy relevance. DEADLINE: January
NASFAA Sponsored Research Grant
The purpose of the Sponsored Research Grant is to support the study and development of quantifiable information that can be used to inform legislators, institutional administrators, and others who make significant decisions regarding student aid issues. Past grants have ranged from $250 to $5,000. DEADLINE: April