- The IES National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) recently launched its first grant competition for doctoral students: the Special Education Dissertation Research Fellowship Program (ALN 84.324G). This competition will provide up to eight advanced doctoral students with a 1-year fellowship of up to $50,000 to support the completion of their dissertation research and to participate in IES-related training. For this inaugural competition, the dissertation research must address one or more of the following areas: education systems, educational technologies, low-incidence disabilities, or postsecondary education. The due date for this grant application is November 14, 2024. Please see the Request for Applications here: https://ies.ed.gov/funding/grantsearch/program.asp?ID=2134. If you have any questions, please contact the program officer for this competition, Courtney Pollack (Courtney.Pollack@ed.gov).
- The University of Haifa (Israel) are looking for candidates for two PhD positions in an ISF-funded project on early reading development. The project focuses on the word recognition and word learning processes of young native-speaking readers of Hebrew and Arabic using eye tracking and pupil dilation (pupillometry). The right applicants will have a background in cognitive, psycholinguistic, or developmental research (or allied discipline), an impressive academic record, a creative mind, a passion for research, academic aspirations, able to work on a team, excellent interpersonal skills, and a high level of written English. (Although native speakers of Hebrew and/or Arabic will be preferred, applicants with exceptional language learning abilities will also be considered.) Please direct inquiries to David Share at dshare@edu.haifa.ac.il or Yasmin Shalhoub-Awwad at yasmin@edu.haifa.ac.il.
- Vanderbilt University and the University of Maryland are recruiting PhD students to begin in Fall 2025. This OSEP-funded leadership grant (Project SUSTAIN: Preparing Leaders with Expertise Promoting the Uptake, Implementation, and Sustainability of Evidence-Based Practices in Special Education) will prepare highly qualified leaders in special education to be experts in the use, implementation, and sustainability of evidence-based practices in schools to strengthen the outcomes of high-needs children with disabilities. Scholars will learn to conceptualize and conduct rigorous research focused on the adoption, implementation, and sustainability evidence-based practices in classrooms, schools, and across educational systems. For more information, please contact Jason Chow (jason.chow@vanderbilt.edu) or Jade Wexler (jawexler@umd.edu).