Fellowships & Awards

Amount: $11,000

Terms and Use: Salary support, living expenses, travel related to research, datasets, hiring

Supports graduate students who are conducting research dealing with quality of life and psychological well-being

Learn more about the Angus Campbell Scholars Fund

Amount: $11,000

Terms and Use: Research funding, travel related to research (conferences and collaboration), training opportunities, memberships

Supports graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty investigating roles and relationships and their effects on physical and mental health

Learn more about the “Libby” Douvan Junior Elizabeth Scholars Fund in Life Course Development

Amount: $11,000

Terms and Use: Research and training support

Supports the research and training of junior researchers, especially women and those studying older populations

Learn more about the A. Regula Herzog Young Investigators Fund

Amount: Two terms of candidate tuition, 12 months of GradCare, and a stipend

Terms and Use: Salary support, tuition, benefits, stipend. Recipients must defend their dissertation that year

Learn more about the Robert Kahn Fellowship for the Scientific Study of Social Issues

Amount: $11,000

Terms and Use: Research support or conference travel

Supports graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty and staff conducting research on the interaction among the interviewer, the respondent, and the instrument and their effects on the quality of survey data.

Learn more about Charles Cannell Fund in Survey Methodology

Amount: $25,000

Terms and Use: Funding to be used as needed by the recipient

Supports a PhD Candidate in Psychology or Survey Methodology (alternating years)

Learn more about the Daniel Katz Dissertation Fellowship in Psychology and Survey Methodology

Amount: 50% GSRA position equivalent plus $3,000 research award

Terms and Use: Stipend, tuition, benefits, research support

The Emerging Inequality Scholar Award supports doctoral candidates to conduct innovative research on socio-economic inequality

Learn more about the CID Emerging Inequality Scholar Award

Amount: $5,500

Terms and Use: Salary support, living expenses, travel related to research, datasets, hiring

Supports scholars conducting economic research using the Health and Retirement Study, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers, or time use data

Learn more about the F. Thomas Juster Economic Behavior Research Award Fund

Amount: $11,000

Terms and Use: Funding to be used as needed by the recipient

Supports graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty conducting research using data from the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study

Learn more about the Jerald and Virginia Bachman Research Fellowship on Change in American Youth

Amount: $11,000

Terms and Use: Supports graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty to conduct research on an environmental sustainability problem that is central to their dissertation

Supports scholars conducting economic research using the Health and Retirement Study, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers, or time use data

Learn more about the Robert and Judy Marans/ Kan and Lillian Chen Dissertation Award in Sustainability and Survey Methodology

Amount: $8,000

Terms and Use: Must integrate population, economic development, and climate change, along with an international component

Supports graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty doing research at the intersection of climate change, demography, and development

Learn more about the Marshall Weinberg Population, Development, and Climate Change Fellows Program

Deadline: TBD

Amount: $6,000

Terms and Use: Graduate student working with CPS faculty, summer support

Learn more about the Philip Converse and Warren Miller Fellowship in American Political Behavior

Deadline: TBD

Amount: $6,000

Terms and Use: Graduate student working with CPS faculty, summer support

Learn more about the Roy Pierce Scholars Fund

Deadline: TBD

Amount: $6,000

Terms and Use: Research, living expenses

Learn more about the Sarri Family Fellowship for Research on Educational Attainment of Children in Low Income Families

Deadline: TBD

Amount: $10,000

Terms and Use: Dissertation support, living expenses

Learn more about the Garth Taylor Dissertation Fellowship in Public Opinion

Deadline: TBD

Amount: $6,000

Terms and Use: Professional development support, stipend, travel, courses

Learn more about the The Hanes Walton, Jr. Endowment for Graduate Study in Racial and Ethnic Politics

Deadline: TBD

Amount: $6,000

Terms and Use: Research and travel support

Learn more about the Ronald F. Inglehart Scholarship Fund

Deadline: TBD

Amount: $6,000

Terms and Use: Graduate student working with CPS faculty, research support

Learn more about The Tessler Fellows Fund

Deadline: 2/15 (TBD)

Amount: N/A

Terms and Use: Must be a PSC trainee to apply

Learn more about research and training activities supported by PSC endowments.

Deadline: Rolling

Amount: $4,000

Terms and Use: Purchase of research supplies, programmer costs, respondent payments, etc.

Learn more about the Robert B. Zajonc Scholars Fund