National PERISHIP Awards, University of Colorado Denver

USA. Eight PhD dissertation fellowships are available to support research on any aspect of natural and human-made hazards, risks, and disasters. Two fellowships of up to $10,000 sponsored by Swiss Re will be awarded in 2007/8 to Ph.D. candidates to support dissertation work in the physical sciences on natural hazards, risk and disasters.

In addition, funding from NSF will provide up to an additional 6 fellowships in any relevant field of the natural and physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, specialties in engineering, or interdisciplinary programs such as environmental studies. The grants are flexible and can be used for data collection, travel for field work, or for presentation of findings at meetings, purchase of software, data entry assistance, statistical analysis services, or a combination of these or other similar purposes (but, NOT for stipends or tuition).

Program Background

The National Periship Awards; Dissertation Fellowship in Hazards, Risk, & Disasters Program is administered by a partnership between The Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center and The Public Entity Risk Institute with funding from Swiss Re and the National Science Foundation.

The 2004 fellowships were funded by the National Science Foundation, which established the program. In 2006, Swiss Re sponsored 2 fellowships for work in the physical sciences and the National Science Foundation and provided funding for 6 fellowships across all disciplines for work in any relevant field of the natural and physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, specialties in engineering, or interdisciplinary programs, such as environmental studies.

The dissertation grants are awarded through a merit-based, competitive process. Award recipients will be expected to finish the dissertation for which they award was made, supply two hardbound copies and an electronic copy for the libraries of the granting organizations. Further, each fellow will write a short (12-page) summary of the applied significance of the research findings in plain language.

Application materials for the 2007/8 fellowships must be received in digital form (.pdf only, as a single file) by 5:00pm EST on February 1, 2008, to periship@riskinstitute.org. Hardcopy applications will not be accepted. Awards will be announced in May, 2008.

For further details, please visit: http://www.cudenver.edu/periship/