Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2025 ACL NIDILRR SFGE 0111
The Merit Switzer Research Fellowships for Doctoral Dissertation Research is a discretionary federal grant opportunity from the Administration for Community Living (ACL), through the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). Its core aim is to strengthen research capacity in disability and rehabilitation by supporting highly qualified researchers, including researchers with disabilities, who are doing original work centered on the lived experiences and real-world outcomes of people with disabilities. The fellowship is specifically designed to help doctoral candidates carry out dissertation research that contributes practical knowledge to the field.
Projects funded under this program must focus on the experiences and outcomes of people with disabilities within at least one of NIDILRR's three major outcome domains: community living and participation, employment, or health and function. In other words, proposals should be clearly rooted in disability-related outcomes and should be framed in a way that aligns with rehabilitation, independent living, and related areas. This is not a general dissertation funding source; it is targeted to dissertation research that advances understanding and evidence in these disability outcome areas.
Eligibility is limited to individuals only. Universities, research centers, nonprofits, and other organizations cannot apply, and the award is made directly to the person rather than to an institution. Applicants must be formal doctoral candidates at the time they submit the application and must be able to document that doctoral status. Because the individual is the applicant, the individual must sign the required application forms; institutional representatives do not sign on the applicant's behalf. A key practical implication is that institutional indirect costs (overhead) cannot be taken out of the award, since the grant is not issued to the institution.
The fellowship provides up to $45,000 (the award ceiling) for a single 12-month project period, supporting the completion of dissertation research activities during that year. NIDILRR expects to make five awards under this specific competition. Funding received through the fellowship is taxable income, so recipients should plan accordingly for tax reporting and potential withholding or estimated tax payments.
Citizenship is not strictly limited to U.S. citizens, but non-U.S. citizens face an additional documentation requirement: they must provide proof that they are eligible to receive research funding directly from a U.S. government agency. The opportunity materials emphasize that point, and it is a condition for eligibility for applicants who are not U.S. citizens.
Key administrative details include the funding opportunity number HHS-2025-ACL-NIDILRR-SFGE-0111, CFDA number 93.433, and an original application closing date of January 14, 2025. The funding activity category is Science and Technology and other Research and Development, and the instrument type is a grant. Overall, this opportunity is best suited for doctoral candidates whose dissertation work squarely addresses disability experiences and outcomes in one of NIDILRR's priority domains and who want one year of direct, individual-level federal support to complete that research.Apply for HHS 2025 ACL NIDILRR SFGE 0111
- The Administration for Community Living in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Merit Switzer Research Fellowships for Doctoral Dissertation Research" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.433.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-11-05.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-01-14. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $45,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Individuals.
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