AAUW American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship 2026 ($50,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: September 30, 2025

Applications are open for the AAUW American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship 2026. The American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship will increase the variety of girls in tenure-monitor college positions and promotes gender fairness for ladies in greater training by offering funding to girls in academia to pursue unbiased analysis over the course of a 12 months.

The American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship is open to candidates in all fields of study, although these engaged in science, know-how, engineering, and math fields, or these researching gender points, are particularly inspired to apply. Established in 1888, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowships are the oldest non-institutional supply of graduate and postdoctoral funding for ladies within the United States.

Benefit

• American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships carry a stipend of $50,000. Stipends are payable to fellows solely and are disbursed in two equal funds in the beginning and the midpoint of the fellowship time period.

Eligibility

• Applicants should determine as a girl.
• Applicants should maintain a Ph.D., Ed.D., D.B.A., M.F.A., J.D., M.D., D.M.D., D.V.M., D.S.W., or M.P.H. on the time of application.
• Applicants should start their postdoctoral program on or earlier than September 1, 2026, and full it on or after May 30, 2027.
• Applicants should be working full-time on their postdoctoral analysis for the length of the award 12 months.
• Applicants should be pursuing their postdoctoral analysis at an establishment:
  • Accredited within the United States, or 
  • An worldwide establishment acknowledged as eligible to take part in U.S. federal pupil support applications, as listed on the Federal Student Aid Participating Schools checklist.

Selection Criteria

• Scholarly excellence as demonstrated by educational achievements, the power of candidates’ analysis proposal, recognition from friends, professors, and/or establishments, and different types of distinction
• Research that’s authentic in design and can make vital contributions to the related discipline
• Feasibility of the analysis plans, the funding of these plans, and the proposed timeline for his or her completion
• Applicants’ instructing expertise
• Demonstrated dedication to serving to girls and ladies by means of service of their communities, professions, or fields of analysis
• Applicants pursuing publish-doctoral research in science, know-how, engineering, or math fields; or these researching gender points (Preferred)
• Applicants who have demonstrated resilience in overcoming life challenges past their management, equivalent to socioeconomic standing, discrimination, restricted educational sources or alternatives, or different adversarial circumstances (Preferred)
• Applicants who have been the primary of their household to attain a bachelor’s diploma (Preferred)
• Applicants who lead or hail from single guardian households (Preferred)

Application

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For extra info, go to AAUW American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship.