Awards

IADR Education Research Group Grant

The Education Research Group (ERG) invites proposals of up to $2,500 USD for consideration. The ERG Grant is designed to fund an educational research endeavor that leads to the promotion or dissemination of effective learning and/or teaching activities in dental education.

 

 

Award Prize/Recognition

$2,500

Key Dates

Applications Open:

Aug 05, 2025

Applications Closed:

Jan 14, 2026

Eligibility
  • Active Members of the ERG are eligible to apply. Members of the ERG Research Grant Committee and specially appointed reviewers are not eligible.
  • Typically only one grant will be awarded in a calendar year.
  • The ERG Grant is designed to fund an educational research endeavor that leads to the promotion or dissemination of effective learning and/or teaching activities in dental education.
  • Successful applicants will be asked to submit a brief report and present their findings at the IADR General Session.
  • Successful applicants will be asked to acknowledge the funding in any resulting publications.

Potential research areas include but are not limited to: educational practice; teaching and learning dynamics; teaching evaluation, curriculum design, program evaluation, and outcomes evaluation at all levels (professional and public); competency evaluation (validity and reliability); applications of new technologies, methodologies, teaching and research approaches, characteristics of institutions, educators, and students, licensing and certification, quality assurance, continuing competence, and continuing professional development.

The primary purposes of this grant are to:

  • encourage high quality educational research projects;
  • encourage feasibility studies in innovative areas;
  • promote collaborations to enhance new and existing projects and partnerships; and
  • support dissemination of good practice to a wider audience.

For the details and submission procedures about this award please visit the ERG Grant Page https://www.iadr-erg.org/erg-research-grant

2025 Recipient

Linda Sangalli, Midwestern University, Illinois

Digital Simulations to Enhance Orofacial Pain Education: Testing a Virtual Patient Learning Tool in Dental Curricula

Questions about this award?

Laura Gartshore

ERG President

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