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Applications for 2025 round accepted: March 19 - April 30, 2025

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The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research announces its 31st annual prize for the best PhD dissertation on employment-related issues. The Institute has sponsored dissertation awards each year since 1995.

A first prize of $2,500 is being offered. Up to two honorable mention awards of $1,000 may also be given.

Eligible persons for the 2025 prize are those whose dissertation was accepted during the 24-month period from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025. The deadline for submission is July 19, 2025.

UNESCO calls on young women and men under the age of 35 to apply for the 2023 Silk Roads Youth Research Grant. The grant aims to mobilize young researchers for further study of the Silk Roads shared heritage. Twelve grants of USD10,000 will be awarded per research project. 

Deadline for submitting proposals is 31 May 2023.

The research needs to address specific issues relating to: 

The Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) considers arts and science as complementary approaches to knowledge acquisition. Both approaches can benefit from a deeper mutual understanding. With the program “art in progress”, the HWK strives to foster dialogue between the arts and sciences. To this aim, artists who engage with science and research in the context of their work, be it in an artistic-practical or a methodological-analytical way, are supported.

• Download the complete 2025 Application Guidelines
• Read “Bolstering our Commitment to the William T. Grant Scholars Program,” a note on the increase in funding from $350,000 to $425,000 for new awards

Applications are invited to the USF’s International Fellowships for urban scholars from the Global South. Each award will cover the cost of a visiting sabbatical period at a host university of the candidate’s choice, for the purpose of writing-up the candidate’s existing research findings in the form of publishable articles, book chapters, and/or books. The proposed work should be completed under the guidance of a chosen Mentor in the candidate’s field of study.