Emerging Investigator in Nursing Education Research Award - NEW for 2025!

The Emerging Investigator in Nursing Education Research Award recognizes and supports promising scholars who are making significant contributions to the field of academic nursing education. This award is for novice researchers and provides financial assistance intended to help advance research, encourage innovative research directions, and develop future leaders within nursing education. 

Funding
This is an annual award of up to $5,000 to support novice researchers in nursing education.

• The application process is open to the public, but preference will be given to NLN members.
• Applicants must provide evidence that the proposed study has been approved by their IRB, where applicable.
• Proposed studies must be clearly focused on research in academic nursing education and must relate to one or more of the  NLN Research Priorities in Nursing Education 2024-2027 (PDF).   

• A complete proposal includes a Blind Review File (all identifying information of individual applicant removed) and a Budget (see form required in Budget section below)
• The proposal must be submitted electronically by a specified deadline. Incomplete proposals or proposals submitted after this time will not be accepted for review
• Applications must adhere to requirements for format, content, length limitations, and necessary supporting materials as outlined in the NLN Research Award Submission Guidelines (PDF)
• Upon completion of the research project, all Grantees are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster/podium presentation at the next available NLN Education Summit or the NLN Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)
• All recipients must submit a final Abstract (no more than 250 words)

1. Title page with applicant's name and affiliation removed
   
2. Proposal narrative (15-page limit, double spaced, includes abstract) with all identifying information of applicant removed as outlined in the NLN Research Award Submission Guidelines (PDF)
3. References cited (are not part of the 15-page limit) - must be presented using the most current APA citation style
   
4. The components of the Blind Review File must be submitted in one PDF file via the online submission system. (visit this Microsoft Support page for help to save/convert files to PDF).

Appendices

Supporting documents are uploaded separately from the Blind Review File and can retain identifying information of individual applicant.  Appendices should include the following:

• Documentation that IRB approval has been requested and/or obtained. 
• If applying as doctoral student, an appendix MUST include documentation of successful completion of proposal defense. 

Note: The NLN research grants are intended to promote and support the development of evidence for nursing education, and not to endorse specific products and/or services. The NLN will not consider grant applications that have the effect of verifying the effectiveness of specific products or to promote specific products.

Proposals for the 2025 cycle will be accepted October 7, 2024, through February 4, 2025.

The NLN Nursing Education Research Grants review process is used. All proposals are submitted for blind review by carefully selected experts in nursing education research. The submitted Blind Review File is the file that is reviewed by these experts.  Recipients are selected through a peer review process using the following NLN Grant Proposal Review Rubric (PDF). 

For questions about the submission or review process, please contact research@nln.org or search the FAQs (PDF).