ASHA's Academic & Research Mentoring (ARM) Network

The ASHA Academic Affairs and Research Education team offers programs that facilitate pursuing, launching, and advancing academic and research careers in communication sciences and disorders. Together, the goals of these programs are to increase the number of PhD faculty and advance the generation of research needed to support evidence-based practice. See also ASHA Award Programs for Students and ASHA Mentoring Programs.

Pursuing a PhD/Academic-Research Career

Promoting the Next Generation of Researchers: Program that recognizes and encourages undergraduates who are presenting their research at the ASHA Convention

Students Preparing for Academic Research Careers: Award that supports undergraduate and clinical-entry degree students in implementing proposed mentored teaching and research activities

Student Research Travel Award: Travel award that supports students who are presenting their research at the ASHA Convention

Audiology/Hearing Science Research Travel Award: Travel award that supports audiology and hearing science doctoral students and postdocs attending the ASHA Convention and introduces them to ASHA’s offerings in hearing science and research career development

Launching an Academic-Research Career

Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Award

NIDCD-supported travel award that supports graduate students, postdocs, and early-career faculty in attending the Research Symposium at the ASHA Convention and engages them in mentored activities before, during, and after the Convention

Mentoring Academic-Research Careers: Year-long program that provides PhD students, postdocs, and early-career faculty with remote mentoring on self-identified academic-research career development topics

Advancing Academic-Research Careers: Award that supports early-career faculty in implementing proposed mentored teaching and research activities

Pathways: NIDCD-established conference followed by year-long remote mentoring that assists candidacy-level PhD students, postdocs, and early-career faculty in building strong foundations for an independent clinical research career

Advancing an Academic-Research Career

Lessons for Success

NIDCD-supported conference that trains candidacy-level PhD students, postdocs, and early-career faculty in grantsmanship skills and other research career competencies

Grant Review and Reviewer Training: Program that trains eligible scientists to effectively review research grants

Clinical Practice Research Institute: Program that supports eligible scientists in planning and preparing a federal clinical practice research grant proposal

Dissemination and Implementation Science Travel Award: Travel award that supports eligible scientists in attending a conference and preparing an implementation science research grant proposal

ASHA's Academic & Research Mentoring (ARM) Network

Pursuing a PhD/Academic-Research Career

Launching an Academic-Research Career

Advancing an Academic-Research Career

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