Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Dissertation Grants
HHS Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)
Supports dissertation research by graduate students working with a university mentor and a local Head Start or Early Head Start program. Program staff are expected to shape the project from design through interpretation and dissemination.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)The ACF project page publishes no award amount or project period; those appear only in each cycle's Notice of Funding Opportunity on Grants.gov.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.ACF's project page dates the program 1998-2024 and directs applicants to search Grants.gov for OPRE and subscribe to forecasts. Cohorts have historically been announced roughly every one to two years; no future due date is published on ACF's site.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Master's / undergraduate
- Eligibility
- Applications are submitted by the student's institution on behalf of a graduate student who has an identified faculty mentor and a partnering local Head Start or Early Head Start program. OPRE does not award grants directly to individuals or for direct services.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- head start · early care and education · researcher-practitioner partnership · dissertation research
- Apply at
- https://acf.gov/opre/project/early-care-and-education-research-scholars-head-start-dissertation-grants
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
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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