Funder: National Council of Teachers of English
Due Dates (Anticipated): September 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $5,000 per project for up to two years
Summary: Supports early-career researchers with funding and mentoring for research on literacy, writing, and writing instruction.
Key Information: Applicants must have no previous CCCC research funding, and principal investigators must be CCCC members at submission.
Description
The CCCC Emergent Researcher Award, administered through the National Council of Teachers of English, supports early-career researchers studying literacy and writing instruction within and beyond formal education. It especially supports faculty and instructors without opportunities for funded research or institutional research support. The award aims to strengthen CCCC’s public voice on writing while supporting diverse applicants, projects, perspectives, and research strategies.
Projects may investigate new questions, extend existing studies, synthesize knowledge, or confirm prior findings. Interests include language, rhetoric, writing assessment and technologies, social, racial, and linguistic justice, and writing across communities and contexts. Selected researchers or teams are matched with established scholars for mentoring from project design and methodology through writing and circulation. Research must reach both scholarly audiences and a specifically identified public audience.
