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Fellowship Programs

NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

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NIJ is seeking proposals for funding under the Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program in social and behavioral sciences. This program provides awards for research on crime, violence, and other criminal justice-related topics to accredited universities that offer research-based doctoral degrees. NIJ invests in doctoral education by supporting universities that sponsor students who demonstrate the potential to successfully complete doctoral degree programs in disciplines relevant to...

NIJ FY 14 Tribal Program Post-Doctoral Research Associate Fellowship

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NIJ seeks proposals for research to support NIJ’s Violence Against Indian Women (VAIW) program of research and to expand the body of criminal justice policy-relevant research. Accurate, comprehensive, and current information on the incidence, prevalence, and the nature of crime and victimization in Indian Country and Alaska Native villages is critically needed to improve our understanding of the programmatic, service, and policy needs of AI...

NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

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NIJ is seeking proposals for funding innovative dissertation research under the NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) Program that provides awards for research on crime, violence, and other criminal justice-related topics to accredited academic institutions that offer research-based doctoral degrees in social and behavioral academic disciplines relevant to NIJ’s mission. NIJ invests in doctoral education by supporting universities that sponsor students who demonstrate the potential to...

NIJ FY 14 Postdoctoral Fellowship: Dating Abuse Among Adolescents and Young Adults

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NIJ is seeking proposals for postdoctoral fellows to analyze existing data or collect new data on dating abuse among adolescents and young adults. Some areas of particular interest to NIJ include, but are not limited to, the following:Testing of behavioral measures of adolescent dating abuse victimization and/or perpetrationResearch that furthers our understanding of abuse within and between relationships, and stability and changes across partners.Research that...

NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

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With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for funding doctoral research in the physical or life sciences, technology, engineering, or mathematics that is directly relevant to better preventing and responding to crime and ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal justice. Awards are made as grants to fully accredited, degree granting educational institutions in the amount of $35,000 to cover a doctoral student fellowship.