DIC GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH

Eligibility: This award is available to students enrolled in a graduate program. It is not limited to United States applicants. Students need not be members of the DIC to apply. Unless already a member of the DIC, the recipient should become a member of the DIC.

Study: The award is to support a research project that addresses an international or cross-national criminology or criminal justice issue.

Timeline: Applications are due July 1, 2023! The DIC award committee chairperson will notify recipients.

Budget: The award maximum is $1,000. Funds cannot be used as salary or wage for the investigator or other persons. Funds are intended to support the research effort, such as travel expenses for data collection, research supplies, participant incentives, and foreign language translation services.

Deliverables: A two-page, typed, double spaced, summary of how the funds were used and the effort’s outcome is required by September 1, the year after receiving the award. Send the report to the DIC Chair.

Request for Proposal: In a maximum of four pages, typed, double spaced, Times New Roman size 11 font or larger, describe the intended international research project. Be sure to include: Title of the project; name and affiliation of the investigator; a statement of the research question/s; statement of why the topic is important; literature that supports the study; description of the research design and analysis plan; dissemination plans; budget; study timeline. In an appendix include references, a letter of support from a research mentor and the investigator’s curriculum vita.

Submission Details: Applications should be sent to the Chair of the DIC Graduate Fellowship for Global Research Committee, Erin Kearns, University of Nebraska at Omaha (ekearns@unomaha.edu). Committee members include Daisy Muibu, University of Alabama, Alessa Juarez, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Meghna Bhat, and Tsvetina Kamenova, University of Massachusetts Lowell.