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KIMCHI MEMORIAL GRADUATE AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT

KIMCHI MEMORIAL GRADUATE AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT

Purpose
In memory of the life and accomplishments of Dr. Anat Kimchi (Criminology and Criminal Justice graduate student), the Kimchi Memorial Graduate Awards Committee will be selecting the fourth Annual Kimchi Memorial Award recipients from among graduate student applicants in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
The Kimchi funds may be used for expenses related to summer research support, professional conference travel, data collection/access, academic training, or to defray the costs of achieving key academic milestones in the graduate program. The focus of these awards is on research related to racial inequality, social justice, punishment and recidivism research, and other areas of scholarship in the study of formal institutions of social control in society.
For example, award monies might be utilized to support various activities that are related to these areas of research, such as:

  • Travel to upcoming academic or policy-related conferences
  • Summer research stipends (e.g. to complete/submit paper for publication)
  • ICPSR or other data training workshops
  • Paying for data access for a student dissertation or related work
  • Purchasing specialized software needed for research purposes
  • Key activities tied to programmatic milestones (e.g. finishing dissertation)

Award Eligibility
University of Maryland Criminology & Criminal Justice doctoral students who have completed their master’s thesis are eligible to apply for the Kimchi Memorial Graduate Awards. Preference will be given to students who have advanced to candidacy. The Award Committee is comprised of 3 full-time faculty members and 1 current graduate student. Graduate students serving on the committee are ineligible to receive the Kimchi Award during their tenure on the committee.

Proposal Structure
To be considered for a Kimchi Memorial Graduate Award, applicants must submit a written project proposal to the Kimchi Award Committee. Applicants can submit a travel/data award, research award, or both. Travel/data proposals should be no more than 3 double-spaced pages. Research proposals should be no more than 5 double-spaced pages. The application process is the same for both but research proposals should be more detailed than travel proposals.
For both types of awards, applicants should provide a summary of the proposed project, including a discussion of the importance of the planned activity and its potential impact on criminal justice research, policy and practice. Proposals should include: a description of the research problem; discussion of relevant literature (other studies that address the topic and use the same or related data); and a detailed description of the methodology, including prior experience with the data or analytic method. The proposal should also clearly describe the project’s dissemination strategy (e.g., publication, dissertation, white paper, policy brief, agency report, paper presentation at a professional conference) and discuss whether it is related to the goals of a specific criminal justice or related agency. Successful applications will consider the feasibility of the study (i.e., how likely it is that the project will be successfully executed) and how the proposed project fits into the broader substantive research areas defined below under Award Criteria. A CV should be attached along with the completed application. For more information about the Kimchi Award, please see: https://go.umd.edu/kimchiaward.

Award Criteria
The committee anticipates being able to support 1 research award that totals no more than $3600, plus up to 2 travel/data awards, each not exceeding $540 in a given year. Travel/data funds can be used to support travel to a national conference, offset costs of a statistical or other training workshop, or help pay
for data access or other specialized research costs. Students who receive a Kimchi Award are expected to use the funds to support the proposed activity. Award amounts may vary depending on individual projects and fund priorities and no award may be given some years. Key criteria that should be used to
structure the written proposals include:

  1. Scholarly Importance and Potential Impact of the Research
    • Novelty and importance of the research topic
    • Potential to make meaningful research contribution to discipline
  2. Substantive Relevance of Proposed Topic Areas
    • Preference will be given to proposals related to:
      ▪ Racial and/or social justice
      ▪ Community corrections (e.g. probation, parole, etc.)
      ▪ Prosecution, sentencing or imprisonment
  3. Data and Methods
    • Projects should involve high-level quantitative data analysis
    • Integration of multiple or complex data sources
    • Application of rigorous and sophisticated analytical approaches
  4. Justice Policy and Translational Criminology
    • Extent to which research might impact policy
    • Potential to enact meaningful change in criminal justice system
    • Additional efforts directly related to translational criminology
  5. Overall Quality and Level of Development in the Proposal
    • Quality of writing, organization, and connections to prior work
    • Quality of description of data and methods
    • Completeness of research ideas and feasibility of project

Application Timeline
Student may apply for funds to support projects that will occur at any point during the upcoming year (i.e. Summer, 2025– Spring, 2026). Completed proposals must be submitted to Jessica Townsend (jessicat@umd.edu) with the Subject Line: Kimchi Graduate Award by 5pm on Friday, February 28, 2025. The committee anticipates making final award announcements by Mid-March, 2025.

Spring 2025 Laura Bassi Scholarship

The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines.

The scholarships are open to every discipline and are awarded thrice per annum: December, April, and August. All currently enrolled master’s and doctoral
students / candidates are eligible to apply, as are academics in the first five years
of full-time employment. There are no institutional, departmental, or national
restrictions.

Spring 2025 Deadline
Deadline: 31 March 2025
Results: 10 April 2025

How to Apply
Applicants are required to submit a completed application form along with their CV using the application portal on the Editing Press website by the relevant deadline. For more information about the Scholarship, including the application form, previous awardees, and a brief description of the remarkable figure of Laura Bassi, see: https://editing.press/bassi

NIBRS Animal Cruelty Data Research Award

Promoting the Analysis of NIBRS Animal Cruelty Data
AWI’s Center for the Study of NIBRS Animal Cruelty Data is pleased to offer two $5,000 grants for master’s and doctoral students to utilize National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) animal cruelty data in their research

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Application Deadline

  • Completed application forms and accompanying materials must be submitted by February 28, 2025.


Application Requirements

  • Analysis of NIBRS animal cruelty data must play a central part in the proposed research project. Datasets for analysis can be downloaded here (the raw data can also be obtained from the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer or the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research’s National Archive of Criminal Justice Data).
  • Applicants must submit the following:
    • Completed application form
    • Resume/CV
    • Letter(s) of support from their institution

Additional Information

  • Award notifications will be sent in March 2025.
  • Award recipients must agree to submit a written summary of the results of the project at its conclusion. This summary may be edited for potential publication in the AWI Quarterly magazine.
  • Award recipients must agree to submit their results for publication in a professional journal or presentation at an appropriate conference.
  • For additional information, please contact claire@awionline.org.

2025 ICPSR Summer Program

$150,000 in scholarships available

Scholarships for the 2025 ICPSR Summer Program are now open! These scholarships cover one of our General Sessions, where you can curate your own schedule of methods training to fit what you need for your research and goals.

View our full list of scholarships that we offer, along with scholarships offered in partnership with other organizations.

The deadline to apply for a scholarship is Friday, February 28.

The General Sessions are available either in person or online, live or asynchronously. All materials for the Sessions are available through December 31, 2024, including recorded class meetings.

Courses in these Sessions are the equivalent of a semester-long class; you’ll be amazed at how quickly you pick up new skills and advance your knowledge in data analysis!

Required application materials may differ between scholarships, but generally to apply you will need:

  • Cover letter stating research interests and how the Summer Program will contribute towards your degree or research goals
  • Current CV
  • One letter of recommendation

KIMCHI MEMORIAL GRADUATE AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT

Purpose
In memory of the life and accomplishments of Dr. Anat Kimchi (Criminology and Criminal Justice graduate student), the Kimchi Memorial Graduate Awards Committee will be selecting the fourth Annual Kimchi Memorial Award recipients from among graduate student applicants in Criminology and Criminal Justice.

The Kimchi funds may be used for expenses related to summer research support, professional conference travel, data collection/access, academic training, or to defray the costs of achieving key academic milestones in the graduate program. The focus of these awards is on research related to racial inequality, social justice, punishment and recidivism research, and other areas of scholarship in the study of formal institutions of social control in society.

For example, award monies might be utilized to support various activities that
are related to these areas of research, such as:

  • Travel to upcoming academic or policy-related conferences
  • Summer research stipends (e.g. to complete/submit paper for publication)
  • ICPSR or other data training workshops
  • Paying for data access for a student dissertation or related work
  • Purchasing specialized software needed for research purposes
  • Key activities tied to programmatic milestones (e.g. finishing dissertation)

Award Eligibility
University of Maryland Criminology & Criminal Justice doctoral students who have completed their master’s thesis are eligible to apply for the Kimchi Memorial Graduate Awards. Preference will be given to students who have advanced to candidacy. The Award Committee is comprised of 3 full-time faculty members and 1 current graduate student. Graduate students serving on the committee are ineligible to receive the Kimchi Award during their tenure on the committee.

Proposal Structure
To be considered for a Kimchi Memorial Graduate Award, applicants must submit a written project proposal to the Kimchi Award Committee. Applicants can submit a travel/data award, research award, or both. Travel/data proposals should be no more than 3 double-spaced pages. Research proposals should be no more than 5 double-spaced pages. The application process is the same for both but research proposals should be more detailed than travel proposals.

For both types of awards, applicants should provide a summary of the proposed project, including a discussion of the importance of the planned activity and its potential impact on criminal justice research, policy and practice. Proposals should include: a description of the research problem; discussion of relevant literature (other studies that address the topic and use the same or related data); and a detailed description of the methodology, including prior experience with the data or analytic method. The proposal should also clearly describe the project’s dissemination strategy (e.g., publication, dissertation, white paper, policy brief, agency report, paper presentation at a professional conference) and discuss whether it is related to the goals of a specific criminal justice or related agency. Successful applications will consider the feasibility of the study (i.e., how likely it is that the project will be successfully executed) and how the proposed project fits into the broader substantive research areas defined below under Award Criteria. A CV should be attached along with the completed application. For more information about the Kimchi Award, please see: go.umd.edu/kimchiaward.

Award Criteria
The committee anticipates being able to support 1 research award that totals no more than $3600, plus up to 2 travel/data awards, each not exceeding $540 in a given year. Travel/data funds can be used to support travel to a national conference, offset costs of a statistical or other training workshop, or help pay for data access or other specialized research costs. Students who receive a Kimchi Award are expected to use the funds to support the proposed activity. Award amounts may vary depending on individual projects and fund priorities and no award may be given some years. Key criteria that should be used to
structure the written proposals include:

  1. Scholarly Importance and Potential Impact of the Research
    o Novelty and importance of the research topic
    o Potential to make meaningful research contribution to discipline
  2. Substantive Relevance of Proposed Topic Areas
    o Preference will be given to proposals related to:
    ▪ Racial and/or social justice
    ▪ Community corrections (e.g. probation, parole, etc.)
    ▪ Prosecution, sentencing or imprisonment
  3. Data and Methods
    o Projects should involve high-level quantitative data analysis
    o Integration of multiple or complex data sources
    o Application of rigorous and sophisticated analytical approaches
  4. Justice Policy and Translational Criminology
    o Extent to which research might impact policy
    o Potential to enact meaningful change in criminal justice system
    o Additional efforts directly related to translational criminology
  5. Overall Quality and Level of Development in the Proposal
    o Quality of writing, organization, and connections to prior work
    o Quality of description of data and methods
    o Completeness of research ideas and feasibility of project

Application Timeline
Student may apply for funds to support projects that will occur at any point during the upcoming year (i.e. Summer, 2025– Spring, 2026). Completed proposals must be submitted to Jessica Townsend (jessicat@umd.edu) with the Subject Line: Kimchi Graduate Award by 5pm on Friday, February 28, 2025. The committee anticipates making final award announcements by Mid-March, 2025.

BRIDGE Award and Funding opportunity

The American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS; APA Division 41) Broadening Representative Inclusion, Diversity, And Global Equity (BRIDGE) committee is dedicated to facilitating activities and developing opportunities within the psychology and law division that embrace, respect and value diversity. They are committed to the recruitment and retention of culturally and linguistically diverse students into psychology and law related doctoral programs, and faculty into psychology and law related academic and professional positions. The committee comprises academicians, researchers, clinicians, practitioners, graduate and doctoral students representing a diversity of backgrounds and expertise in the field. They have three awards programs that may be of interest:

  1.  The Diversity Research Award supports research by graduate students who come from diverse backgrounds or work examining issues of diversity in psychology and law.
  2. The Access Path to Psychology and Law Experience (AP) program supports research involvement for undergraduates and terminal Master’s students from diverse backgrounds with the goal of preparing them for graduate training in psychology and law.
  3. The Travel Award supports student travel to the AP-LS annual conference, which will be held March 13-15, 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

For more information on the awards, please visit https://ap-ls.org/awards/

The deadline for the application is January 15, 2025.  They also encourage students to attend their annual conference to meet with faculty and students of Division 41.   For more information regarding BRIDGE please contact the Chair, Dr. Christopher Bishop (bishopC@trinity.edu) and Co-Chair Dr. Jason Lawrence (jmlawrencephd@gmail.com).

OPRE Forecasted Notice of Funding Opportunity for Dissertation Research

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has long supported rigorous dissertation research by advanced doctoral students addressing policy relevant issues. We are excited to announce that the Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation (OPRE) has forecasted funding opportunities for fiscal year 2025 for dissertation research on key topics of interest to ACF.

Please visit grants.gov for the Child Care Dissertation GrantsHead Start Dissertation Grants, and Behavioral Interventions Scholars forecasts to view descriptions, estimated application due dates, and to subscribe to email notifications regarding these award opportunities visit the ACF website to view previously awarded projects under Child CareHead Start, and Behavioral Interventions Scholars Grant Programs. We encourage regular visits to ACF’s Grants home page for information about applying.

Note: These forecasted award opportunities are contingent on available funds and the continued interest of the federal government.

Student Research Funding Opportunity | ADPCCJ

The Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice announces support for doctoral student dissertation research and professional development. Dissertation research examples (not exhaustive) include money for incentives, travel for research or data collection, and transcription services. Examples of professional development support include participation in an ICPSR workshop, attendance at a specialized workshop that focuses on a particular kind of software or statistical analysis, and acquisition of and training in a data set or a similar activity. Self-payment (i.e., salary) and conference travel are not supported. Continue reading