Lyle Spencer Research Awards LOI guidelines

Advancing Understanding of Education Practice and Its Improvement

The Lyle Spencer Research Awards program supports intellectually ambitious research oriented to improving the practice of education, independent of any particular reform agendas or methodological strictures. This program encourages proposals initiated by scholars across a variety of disciplines and fields in an effort to create much-needed space for creative and ambitious research projects that promise to advance our understanding of educational practice and its improvement. This program was introduced in 2014 as the successor to the Foundation’s longstanding Major Research Grants program. Read more…

Deadlines

The review process for the Lyle Spencer Research Awards begins with a Letter of Intent (LOI) application, which is accepted once a year. The next deadline for LOIs is 5 p.m. Oct. 2. Applicants can expect a decision on their LOI by the end of December.

Contact the

Office of Research and Graduate Education

if you are interested in pursuing this funding opportunity.