Graduate students are encouraged to seek external funding to supplement their graduate education. This page is a great place to start. 

 

Finding Fellowship Opportunities

• Click here to see a spreadsheet of 50+ external fellowships for Social Sciences students.
• Click here to see all internal fellowships offered by UCI Grad Division.
• Click here for other ways to find travel funding. 
• Pivot ProQuest is a useful search engine for finding fellowships and grants

 

Writing a Winning Application

Hands-on assistance:

1. One-on-one fellowship mentoring at UCI

2. UCI Writing Center Appointments

3. UCI events calendar for webinars and workshops

Writing advice:

1. Grant writing tips from Holly Hapke (UCI)

2. The art of writing proposals (Social Science Research Council)

3. How to organize a research proposal (Scribblr)

Resume/CV/cover letter writing resources:

1. Academic CV samples

2. Harvard guide to resumes and cover letters

3. Action words and how to use them