Helen M. Robinson Grant

The Helen M. Robinson Grant is a US$1,500 award given annually to assist doctoral students at the early stages of their dissertation research in the area of reading and literacy. Applicants must be Association members.

Application Information

The applicants can complete and submit their applications online using a web-based grant management system. The deadline for online submission is January 15, 2009. Applicants may apply for more than one research grant; however, you are eligible to win only one research grant per award year. All applicants must be International Reading Association members.

New Applicants

The links below are for new applicants only. If you applied last year for any of the research grants, see the Previous Applicants section below.

Previous Applicants

If you applied last year for any of the research grants, you already have a profile in the grant system. You selected a username when you created your profile (it is not necessarily your IRA number). If you need a reminder, click "forgot username" on the log in page and it will be emailed to you.

For additional information, contact the Research and Policy Division

Grant Recipients

2008
Bridget A. Walsh
Denton, TX

2007
Sarah E. Scott
University of Michigan
Understanding the knowledge demands of teaching reading comprehension: Mapping the terrain

2006
Amy M. Vetter
University of Texas at Austin
Creating spaces: Negotiating identities through talk in urban high school English classrooms

2005
Sheila Benson
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Engaging students in literacy: A multiliteracies orientation to literacy instruction

2004
Nancy N. Charron
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Talk at the terminal: The effect of an Internet pen pal program on fourth graders’ written language development and attitudes toward writing

2003
Kimberly H. Creamer
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Teaching our children to read: A literacy history

2002
Kalliopi Chliounaki
University of Oxford
The role of morphology in the development of spelling ability in Greek

2001-1997
—Not Given—

1996
Amy E. Seely-Flint University of California
The roles of intertextuality and stance: A study of meaning construction in a third grade classroom

1995-1993
—Not Given—

1992
Barbara Boone Buescher
North Carolina State University
Reasoning operations and inference sources reflected in literary journals of seventh graders

1991
Shelby Ann Wolf
Stanford University
Learning to act/acting to learn: Language and learning in the theatre of the classroom