Innovation in Social Research Fellowship
- Applicants must have completed all requirements for Ph.D. candidacy (or equivalent degree in a professional school).
- Applicants must have been admitted to candidacy and must provide a written letter confirming candidacy from the thesis advisor or student's graduate chair. Must be eligible to accept the fellowship and after receiving the fellowship funds must plan to finish within a year.
- Candidates within the social and behavioral sciences departments or inter-school, interdisciplinary programs with such departments will be given preference; other applicants will be considered, however.
The Innovation in Social Research Fellowship is designed to support a candidate to complete dissertation research and writing. 2012 will be the last year ISR will offer the fellowship.
The purpose of this fellowship is to promote innovative empirically grounded, social scientific analysis of important intellectual or practical issues pertaining to human behavior or social life. The proposed research should challenge conventional wisdom, use innovative/novel techniques and/or cross-disciplinary boundaries in new and unusual ways. In addition, the award should facilitate such analysis in active association with an ISR research project or program area.
Nomination materials should include (1) an up-to-date original transcript, (2) two or three letters of nomination from the department chair, dissertation advisor or committee members stating the strengths of the nomination and vouchsafing the candidate's eligibility, (3) a brief [two to three page] description of the project, its title, and its intellectual relationship to an ISR project or archived data including identification of the dissertation advisor and/or committee, (4) an up-to-date Curriculum Vitae.
In most instances the term of the award will be limited to twelve months. If departmental, collegiate or extramural monies complement the ISR award, the term may be extended up to a total of 24 months, but we discourage this.