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Merit Switzer Research Fellowships for Doctoral Dissertation Research

Federal funding opportunity HHS-2025-ACL-NIDILRR-SFGE-0111 from Administration for Community Living (Department of Health and Human Services).

Posted
November 5, 2024
Closed
January 14, 2025
Award ceiling
$45,000
Award floor
$40,000
Program funding
$225,000
Expected awards
5
Cost sharing
No
Instrument
Grant
Assistance listing
93.433
Category
Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Archives
September 30, 2025

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 93.433 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.

FY2025 obligated
$112M
FY2026 obligated
$0
FY2027 (to date) obligated
$0
Awards in window
174

Top recipients: University of Washington, University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, University of Illinois, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →

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Synopsis

The purpose of the Switzer Research Fellowships program is to build research capacity by providing support to highly qualified individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to conduct research on rehabilitation, independent living, and other experiences and outcomes of people with disabilities. Fellows must conduct original research that is focused on the experiences and outcomes of people with disabilities in one or more of NIDILRR’s three outcome domains: (1) community living and participation; (2) employment; or (3) health and function. The purpose of this particular Switzer Fellowship opportunity is to provide support to doctoral candidates as they conduct their dissertation research. NIDILRR plans to make five fellowship awards under this opportunity. Applicants must demonstrate their formal academic status as doctoral candidates. Fellowship awards will have one 12-month project period.

Who can apply

Only individuals are eligible to apply for NIDILRR Switzer Research Fellowship grants. Institutions and organizations may not apply. Applicants for this particular fellowship must be doctoral candidates at the time they submit their application. Because the individual person rather than the institution is the applicant for this Fellowship, the person who seeks the Fellowship must sign the forms included in the application. Representatives of institutions do not sign the application forms. Because the award is made to the individual rather than to the institution, institutional indirect costs may not be deducted from the award. Fellowship funds are taxable income. Applicants must demonstrate their formal academic status as doctoral candidates. Applicants who are not U.S. citizens must provide documentation that they are eligible to receive research funding directly from an agency of the United States government. Applicants who are not U.S. citizens must provide documentation that they are eligible to receive research funding directly from an agency of the United States government. No entities are eligible for this award, only individuals are eligible to apply. If you are a non-USA citizen, you must provide documentation that you are eligible to receive research funding directly from an agency of the United States government.

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Agency contact: Administration for Community Living · [email protected] · 202-795-7407

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