NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026 (up to $70,000) – YOA

Deadline: November 13, 2025

Applications are open for the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026. The NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship helps early profession students working in crucial areas of training analysis. Through skilled improvement, funding, and mentorship from senior students, the fellowship enhances the profession and analysis alternatives of the man.

As a extremely aggressive initiative, this fellowship yearly identifies and helps 25 of essentially the most distinctive researchers conducting postdoctoral research related to training. This non-residential fellowship helps students who promise to make vital contributions to the sector of training and advances the careers of the recipients. Scholars might conduct their analysis at their home establishment or at one other analysis website that they’ve organized.

Award

The fellowship contains three key parts:

• Fellows obtain $70,000 for one educational 12 months, distributed in two installments.
• Fellows take part in three skilled improvement retreats facilitated by National Academy of Education (NAEd) members and different distinguished students. These retreats supply normal and specialised discussions to improve the fellows’ analysis capabilities and educational development.
• Fellows select an NAEd member or one other esteemed scholar as a mentor, offering steerage and assist all through the educational 12 months.

Eligibility

To obtain the fellowship, candidates should:

• Have acquired their PhD, EdD, or equal analysis diploma between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2024. These dates are correct for the upcoming application cycle. If you’ll full your doctorate this 12 months (2025), you’re eligible to apply subsequent 12 months.
• Not maintain tenure standing on the time of the application deadline.
• Have a demonstrated document of analysis expertise in training and the mission should be in training analysis.
• Submit a person application as they won’t settle for group purposes.

Application

Application deadline is November 13, 2025 – 5:00 pm ET.

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For extra data, go to NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship.