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Doctoral Research Grant Program Guidelines
General Guidelines
- This program is available to doctoral students attending an accredited college or university. Candidates must provide the name of the college’s or university’s accrediting body.
- Part-time and full-time doctoral students are encouraged to apply.
- Grants will be given twice a year. The evaluation process each time will consist of one round of reviews before the final selections are made.
- Research must be completed within two years of receipt of the grant.
Funding Guidelines
- A single award up to US$22,500 or multiple awards totaling up to US$22,500.
- Payment of grant money will go to the college or university.
- Grants are to support doctoral thesis research. These grants are not a scholarship to be used for tuition and are not a stipend to be used for living expenses.
- Grant money may not be used for university overhead.
- Candidates must confirm in writing that additional sources of funding exist to enable the completion of the research or that the PMIEF Doctoral Research Grant is sufficient to complete the research.
- Grant awardees will sign an agreement committing to fulfill the research before the grant money can be released.
- Candidates cannot receive money from the PMI Sponsored Research Program and the PMIEF Doctoral Reseasrch for the same research.
Application Process
- Candidates should submit a five-page proposal, prepared according to the Submission Guidelines specifications.
- The cover page of the proposal should include the following information:
- Name of investigator (credentials, if applicable)
- Email address
- University
- Department
- Name of Thesis Supervisor
- Signature of Thesis Supervisor
- The thesis advisor should sign off on the proposal.
- Research must have a clear, specific, and delineated methodology. Preference will be given to research methodologies that do not rely strictly on surveys.
- Research must be completed within two years of receipt of the grant.
- Application must list three key search words; these terms cannot be “global” and “project management”.
Publication
- Grant recipients must acknowledge PMIEF funding in any publications about the research.
- Recipients must prepare and submit a paper to PMIEF upon completion. Alternatively, this requirement can be fulfilled with a paper submitted to PM Journal®, the PMI Research Conference, or a research track at a PMI Global Congress. A a copy of the submission must be sent to PMIEF.
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