Now Accepting Applications: Gatzert Child Welfare Fellowship

The Gatzert Child Welfare Fellowship is a one-quarter fellowship awarded for the writing of a doctoral dissertation that contributes to the lives of children with disabilities. The Gatzert Fellowship includes:

• One quarter of UW state tuition and fees
• GAIP insurance
• A stipend at the regular Predoctoral TA II rate (currently $3,076 per month)

The fellowship was established in the 1930s by the Bailey and Babette Gatzert Foundation for Child Welfare and may be used in Summer 2024, Autumn 2024, Winter 2025 or Spring 2025. The choice of the quarter will be left to the discretion of the student

Who Can Apply?

Students in any academic discipline whose research focuses on supporting the lives of children with disabilities are eligible. To be considered for this fellowship, the applicant must:

• Have achieved doctoral candidate status at the time of application
• Have demonstrated progress on the dissertation which indicates completion by the end of spring quarter 2025 or sooner
• Be in a tuition-based program; students in fee-based programs are not eligible
• Have not received another dissertation writing award from the Graduate School (e.g., GSEE, Presidential Dissertation, etc.)

Criteria

1. Significance of the dissertation research to supporting the lives of children with disabilities
   • Competitive applications will propose research that is focused on children with disabilities rather than research that has children with disabilities as one possible group for whom the research would apply
2. Originality of the dissertation research
3. Potential of the student to make significant scholarly contributions
4. Student is both ready and in need of a full quarter to work on writing the dissertation

2024-25 application deadline: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at noon (12 p.m. PT).

Apply via MyGrad Program through the ‘Request Award’ > ‘Request New Award’ links.