The Patrice L. Engle Dissertation Grant

The Patrice L. Engle Dissertation Grant aims to provide support for students interested in a career in global early child development. The Grant includes US$5,000 to support dissertation research and a 2-year student membership to Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).

The developmental focus of the research should include children, prenatal to 6 years of age living in low- or middle- income countries, as defined by the World Bank.  Potential topics could include (but not limited to):

• "The effectiveness of different models of parenting support on early child development.
• Examination of how child care programmes promote child development and family involvement.  
• The effectiveness of 2-generation programmes that provide maternal and child support.
• Innovative strategies to integrate programmes that promote early child development with health or nutritional services for young children.
• Innovative strategies to integrate child development interventions with social protection services or programmes to promote maternal mental health or education.
• Innovative strategies to involve fathers and other extended family members in early child development programmes.
• Development of measurement strategies, indicators, and assessment tools for children and family interactions that can be implemented with reliability in low resource settings.
• Strategies for effective scale-up of demonstration programmes." 

Grantees are encouraged to submit an abstract to the SRCD Biennial meeting following the completion of their research. Grantees from low- or middle-income countries are encouraged to apply to SRCD for international travel funds to attend the SRCD Biennial meeting.