Opportunity Overview
Open now. The American Psychological Foundation is accepting applications for the K. Anders Ericsson Dissertation Research Grant through October 30, 2026 at 11:59 PM Hawaii Time (HT). One $11,000 grant is available.
Purpose and Eligibility
The grant supports dissertation research in expertise and skill acquisition, with preferred emphasis on the expert-performance approach, deliberate practice, process-tracing methods, and research designed to understand superior skill. Applicants must be graduate students who are in the process of completing their dissertations.
Application Requirements
APF lists the required materials as a dissertation abstract, dissertation timeline, detailed budget and justification, and CV. APF directs applicants to the GivingData portal for the controlling formatting and content instructions. APF’s public program page does not identify a matching-fund requirement.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 78/100. The program is relevant to Kentucky doctoral psychology, health-professions education, behavioral-health training, patient-education, and workforce-learning research when the dissertation directly addresses expertise, deliberate practice, or skill acquisition. Recent APF-funded examples include culturally responsive psychotherapy training, prostate-cancer patient education and psychological engagement, and deliberate-practice training for community mental-health workers.
N9+ Fit: 5/100. A technology-enabled dissertation could be responsive when it is genuinely centered on expertise or skill acquisition, but this is a research award rather than an equipment-procurement or remote-exam funding program.
Next Action
Kentucky candidates should confirm dissertation-stage eligibility, research-topic alignment, budget eligibility, current GivingData instructions, and any institution-specific sponsored-research requirements. New outreach requires authoritative recipient verification, CRM opt-out review, and sent-history deduplication.
Official sources: APF K. Anders Ericsson Dissertation Research Grant and APF Program FAQs.