GEOG 5161, Research Design in Human Geography

Notes and Study Materials

Aspiring Academics Website

Babbit, Victoria, Elizabeth Rudd, Emory Morrison, Joseph Picciano, and Maresi Nerad.  2008.  Careers of Geography PhDs: Findings from Social Science PhDs—Five+ Years Out.  Seattle: University of Washington, Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education.  http://depts.washington.edu/cirgeweb/c/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/ss5-geography-report.pdf (accessed December 29, 2008).

Geography Faculty Development Alliance

National Science Foundation, Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide, http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/papp/
National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Science, SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants, http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/grs/suppdiss.jsp
National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Science, Samples of Successful Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/grs/propsamples.jsp

Solem, Michael N., Kenneth E. Foote, and Janice J. Monk.  2009.  Aspiring Academics: A Resource Book for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculy.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

1. Patricia Solís, Activities for AA Chapter 11, Preparing Competitive Research Grant Proposals  and Coherency Matrix for Second Activity
2. Iain Hay and Mark Israel, Activities for AA Chapter 12, Private People, Secret Places: Ethical Research in Practice
3. Jan Monk and Ken Foote, Activities for AA Chapter 13, Academic Publishing

AAG Grants and Awards, http://www.aag.org/cs/grantsawards (Other awards are sponsored by specialty groups, so check their pages, too)
Society of Women Geography, http://www.iswg.org/
CU Graduate School awards,  http://www.colorado.edu/GraduateSchool/funding/awards.html
CU Geography, http://geography.colorado.edu/grad_program/funding_opportunities, http://www.colorado.edu/geography/blanken/Spring 2010 Call/Graduate Award Call 2010.html
Fulbright, http://www.iie.org/
Social Science Research Council (SSRC), http://www.ssrc.org/
Funding Resources to Support Research in Geography by Sarah J. Halvorson, U of Montana

Others? Please let me know and I will add them to this list.