2025 PhD Scholarships
The deadline has been extended until November 4, 2024 at 11:59pm ET
Program Description
CAPCSD is committed to addressing the PhD shortage in communication sciences and disorders and offers this scholarship program for students pursuing a PhD and who are committed to an academic career in communication sciences and disorders. These scholarships support PhD students in the dissertation phase of their doctoral program and applicants must intend to pursue an academic career in CSD. Funds may be used to support dissertation expenses and/or the applicant’s personal expenses while completing the dissertation. CAPCSD will fund up to ten (10) scholarships of $12,000 each for successful scholarship awardees.
Eligibility Requirements
Award Amount
- Only students at CAPCSD member institutions with membership paid in full no later than September 15, 2024 are eligible to be nominated.
- When nominating an applicant for a PhD scholarship, member programs must consider students who will have advanced to candidacy (ABD) by June 15, 2025 and will not defend their dissertation earlier than January 1, 2026. Scholarship awardees must provide proof within the letter of support from their dissertation advisor that they fall within this eligibility window. Awardees unable to meet these requirements cannot defer the scholarship to the next funding cycle.
- Member programs can nominate only one applicant for this scholarship. Programs with multiple potential applicants should devise their own internal review process to select one applicant. We encourage programs to review this evaluation rubric for assistance in determining their most qualified students. We encourage programs to review the evaluation rubric for assistance in determining their most qualified student. The selected graduate student will submit their own application.
Up to ten (10) $12,000 scholarships.
Application Information
Applicants must complete all sections of the online application form and upload the required application materials.
Application materials are to be uploaded as a single PDF file with the required components provided in the following order:
- Cover Letter
- Dissertation Research Plan
- Optional Graphs/Tables/Charts to Support the Research Plan
- Reference List
- Curriculum Vitae
- Letter of Support
Specific instructions for each application component are as follows:
- Cover Letter (must be Arial 12-point font, single-spaced, one-inch margins, and a maximum of two pages long). The cover letter written by the applicant should provide the following:
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- A brief introduction of the research project.
- A description of the applicant’s academic career goals as well as what they have done to date and what they plan to do in the next two-to-three years to secure an academic position (for example, efforts in the areas of teaching, research and scholarly activity, grants, service).
- The date of progression to candidacy and expected date of graduation.
- A short explanation of how a CAPCSD scholarship would facilitate completion of the dissertation research project.
- Dissertation Research Plan (1000-word limit). The Dissertation Research Plan should include information organized into five bolded and underlined headings, as follows:
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- Background
- Specific aims/objectives
- Methods and outcome measures
- Analysis plan
- Timeline (the timeline should include IRB approval, participant recruitment and data collection, data analysis, dissertation defense, and graduation date)
- Optional Graphs/Tables/Charts. Graphs, tables, and charts should only be included if they directly support, and are referred to in, the Dissertation Research Plan.
- Reference List. The reference list should include references for all original works cited in the Dissertation Research Plan.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Letter of Support (two pages maximum). This letter should by written by the applicant’s dissertation advisor and include a detailed description of the (1) applicant's performance in their program/lab to date, (2) strength, feasibility, and importance of the dissertation project, and (3) strength of the applicant’s future potential for an academic career. The letter should also confirm that the applicant will have passed to the candidacy stage (ABD) by June 15, 2025 and will not defend their dissertation prior to January 1, 2026.
Basis for Evaluation
- Each component of the application will be reviewed and assessed according to this evaluation rubric.
Application Timeline
Application system is now open and will close on November 4th at 11:59pm ET
Awardees will be notified by April 2025
Questions?
Contact Megan Woods - mwoods@capcsd.org