Funding Opportunities

Forbes Dissertation Funding Awards– Call sent out in Spring/Summer via email

The PRC invites applications from graduate student trainees for the Forbes Dissertation Research Awards. These awards are designed to help PRC trainees with expenses related to data collection or data analysis. Graduate students who are currently trainees of the PRC can apply for up to $2,000 to be used for dissertation expenses. Funds cannot be used for the trainee’s salary, for a personal computer, or travel to conferences. Funds may be used for participant incentives, dataset access fees, data collection devices, etc. We anticipate making more than one award. These awards are supported by an endowment that honors Doug Forbes, a UT alumnus and former faculty member dedicated to the professional development of graduate students.

Eligibility: The applicant must be a current trainee of the PRC; they must be at the doctoral candidacy stage and have defended their dissertation proposal or be preparing to do so in the next few months.

Questions: Email PRC Training Director Bridget Goosby, bgoosby@prc.utexas.edu

W. Parker Frisbie Outstanding Graduate Student Publication Awards- Call sent out in Spring/Summer via email

Graduate student trainees of the PRC are invited to submit a paper to be considered for the 2025 W. Parker Frisbie Outstanding Graduate Student Publication Award. This award was founded in honor of the many contributions W. Parker Frisbie made in establishing the PRC as one the most highly esteemed NICHD-supported population centers in the U.S. There will likely be one or two awards for the 2025 competition to honor the best graduate student-authored paper(s) addressing pressing issues in demographic research and population science. Each awardee will receive a $500 stipend.

Eligibility: The graduate student author must be a current pre-doctoral trainee in the PRC to be considered for this Award. The paper must include both theoretical and empirical elements. Papers coauthored with faculty are eligible, but the graduate student must be the first author; any submissions for which the student is not the sole or first author must include the text of an email from a faculty co-author attesting to the student’s contribution. Published papers, in press papers, papers under review, and papers ready to be submitted to journals are all acceptable. Students who have already received this award are not eligible for this competition.

Questions: Email service@prc.utexas.edu