2015 Doctoral Dissertation Grants competition - TIRF

Tue, 07 Apr 2015 17:36:13 -0400
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The deadline for TIRF’s 2015 Doctoral Dissertation Grants (DDG) competition is quickly approaching, with an application deadline set for April 22, 2015. The DDG funding is intended to support worthy applicants who have advanced to candidacy (that is, they are in the dissertation phase in their doctoral programs) and whose dissertation research plans address topics that TIRF has prioritized. Grants of up to US $5,000 will be made to successful applicants investigating any of the following topics:

Bilingualism or Plurilingualism in Business, Industry, and the Professions

Language Assessment

Optimal Uses of Technology in the Delivery of English Language Instruction

Language Teacher Education

Students’ Age and Effective English Language Education in Schools

Language Policy and Planning

TIRF is offering two types of DDGs. The first is the Foundation’s long-standing TIRF DDG that is supported by Cam-bridge English Language Assessment and many of our individual donors. The other type of grant offered by TIRF is the TIRF-British Council DDG, which is designed to support doctoral candidates from under-resourced parts of the world and/or doctoral candidates doing research which is likely to lead to the improvement of language education in developing nations. To read more about these two types of DDGs, including eligibility requirements, click here to read the call for proposals.

The application deadline is April 22, 2015. To read the call-for-proposals, please click here. For further information, please visit TIRF's website