AGESW Pre-Dissertation Fellows Program
Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGESW)
Early-doctoral fellowship in gerontological social work: a $1,200 stipend plus paid registration for the Gerontological Society of America annual meeting, one-year AGESW and GSA memberships, ten hours of professional development and ongoing mentoring.
- Indicative award
- $1k stipend (stipend)$1,200 stipend toward the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting, with registration fees covered and AGESW plus GSA memberships included. Requires $600 in confirmed institutional support; it is a training/travel stipend, not project research funding.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Mar, JunNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Annual cycle: applications open 1 March and close 1 June. The 1 June 2026 deadline for the 2026 cohort has passed; expect the same window in 2027.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate
- Eligibility
- Open to students enrolled in a US social work or related PhD programme who are in their first or second year of doctoral study and hold an MSW. The programme director must confirm $600 of matching institutional support for conference attendance.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- gerontology · doctoral training · research mentoring
- Apply at
- https://agesw.org/about-agesw/pre-dissertation-initiative/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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