The Dingwall Dissertation Fellowships in the Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Foundations of Language are for doctoral candidates who are specializing in the cognitive, clinical, and neural foundations of language. The objective of these fellowships is to allow the recipients to devote their full time to the completion of their doctoral dissertations. The funds may be used for living expenses, health insurance, equipment, travel, or any other purpose related to the completion of the doctoral dissertation.
Scholarship Details
- Funds may be used for living expenses, health insurance, equipment, travel, or other dissertation-related expenses.
- The fellowship is intended for doctoral candidates specializing in language's cognitive, clinical, and neural aspects.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nominees must be doctoral candidates focusing on language's cognitive, clinical, and neural foundations.
- The nomination must be made by the Department/Program Head or Graduate Director.
Application Process
- Department/Program Head or Graduate Director nominates the candidate with a letter describing the selection process and nominee's qualifications.
- Nominee submits a dissertation proposal summary (500-1,000 words), preliminary data, an official graduate transcript, a curriculum vitae, and a bibliography of published works.
The nominee will be selected by a process to be decided upon by their program or department. The nomination should be made in a letter from the Department/Program Head or Graduate Director that briefly (1) describes the selection process, (2) summarizes the considerations that led to the selection of this particular doctoral candidate as the program’s nominee, and (3) describes the nominee’s additional funds, if any, including amounts, sources, purposes (such as travel expenses, research costs, living expenses, etc), and any requirements for duties to be performed.
