The AIHP PhD Research Support Grant Program is designed to provide financial support for doctoral students pursuing academic research related to the broadly defined history of pharmacy and pharmaceuticals. The Program offers grants up to $2,000 to cover research expenses not normally covered by the student’s university (as described in more detail below). The deadline for 2021 applications is March 1, 2021.
In 2021, the AIHP PhD Research Support Grant Program will give special attention to the theme of “Barriers & Margins.” The fields of pharmacy and pharmaceuticals have often witnessed social, economic, racial, gender, and other barriers that have marginalized certain segments of the population. Many of these stories remain untold. For this year’s grant competition, we particularly encourage applications from students pursuing historical projects that engage with race, colonialism, gender, or inequality as they relate to social or cultural reconfigurations in pharmacy, pharmaceutical fields, and the adjacent health disciplines.
Instructions & Eligibility
The AIHP PhD Research Support Grant Program is open to all PhD students enrolled in a university based in the United States, regardless of department or discipline. The student need not be an American citizen; nor does the research topic need to be in the field of American history.
The research must be clearly and significantly related to the history of pharmacy or pharmaceuticals, broadly defined.
Use of grant funds is restricted to direct research expenses that cannot normally be reimbursed by the degree-granting institution itself. Examples of eligible expenses include: travel and living expenses at a site removed from the home university to pursue or conduct research and actual investigative or research costs (such as costs incurred to collect, compile, record, and process data or information and costs incurred to obtain or secure access to essential sources). Examples of ineligible expenses include living expenses of the applicant at the home university or indirect expenses such as overhead or other institution-related costs.
Applicants should submit their application as a single.pdf document of no more than four pages in length that includes:
In addition to the four-page .pdf application, applicants (or the supervising facility member) should also submit by email a Letter of Support from a faculty member or supervisor.
Deadline for Application: March 1, 2021. At the discretion of the Institute, an application received after that date may be evaluated individually if any funds remain un-awarded.
Post-Award Requirements
Recipients of a grant will be asked for further information and to fulfill certain additional post-award requirements. These include:
Send your complete application materials by email to grants@aihp.org. Questions about the AIHP PhD Research Support Grant Program should be sent to aihp@aihp.org. Confirmation of receipt of the application will be sent by email.
Read a list of previous recipients of AIHP’s PhD Research Support Grant with their funded research topics.
Download a .pdf copy of the AIHP PhD Research Support Grant instructions .
The American Institute of the History of Pharmacy is documenting and preserving pharmacy stories and experiences during the COVID-19 global pandemic for the benefit of future historians and scholars. We seek to record the effects of this public health emergency on all types of pharmacy experiences. We invite you to share your pharmacy stories, photos, videos, artifacts, and other documentation of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
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