2025 AED Scholarship and Grant Application Form

2025 AED Scholarship and Grant Applications
AED is pleased to offer the following scholarships and grants in 2025:
- Student/Early Career Investigator/ Clinical Trainee Travel Scholarship
- Scholarship for Clinicians and Researchers Under-Represented within the AED
- Scholarship for People from Low Income Countries
- Student Research Grants
- Scholarship for Experts by Experience
Please carefully review the full scholarship criteria and submission requirements HERE prior to submitting your application. This page contains important info about requirements for supporting materials.

If you have questions about the application form, please contact info@aedweb.org.

The application deadline is November 14, 2024.

Personal Information
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Scholarship or Grant Selection
Which scholarship or grant are you applying for? (If applying for multiple awards, please submit the application form once for each award type).*

Student/Early Career Investigator/ Clinical Trainee Travel Scholarship
Please confirm that you meet the following eligibility criteria:*

Applicant must be a current AED member.Applicant must be a full-time student in a degree program, including physicians-in-training with interest or involvement in the field of eating and related disorders, or fewer than three (3) years post-training.
Have you received this award before? Individuals who have received this award more than once, or in the prior year, are not eligible. Although individuals who have received this award once are eligible, preference will be given to applicants who have not previously received a travel scholarship.*

Yes, once, but not in the previous yearYes, more than onceNo
Personal Statement*

Please include a brief statement describing your research and/or clinical interests in the field of eating disorders, your career goals, and how the scholarship will further these goals. Those candidates coming from an under-represented and/or marginalized background (either within the AED itself, or within their home country) should include a brief statement (50 words or less) explaining how you qualify as under-represented within the AED or within your home country.
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Curriculum Vitae*

Please include a current curriculum vitae including academic degrees, appointments, recent employment history, teaching activities, clinical activities, community activities, references for any publications or presentations at eating disorder conferences, meetings, or seminars.
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Letters of Recommendation*

Please include two letters of recommendation from a faculty member from your institution or the eating disorders field. This letter should be no longer than 500 words in the length and should address the importance of nominee's suitability for the scholarship. One of these letters must come from your primary mentor.
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ICED Abstracts

If you submitted an abstract for the next International Conference on Eating Disorders, please include an electronic copy of that abstract.
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Documentation of Status*

Please include one of the following: Documentation of current training status as an undergraduate student, graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, resident or clinical trainee in a field of study of relevance to the understanding or treatment/prevention of eating disorders (student ID card or letter from supervisor), OR description of your academic appointment no more than three (3) years post training
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Scholarship for Clinicians and Researchers Under-Represented within the AED
Please confirm that you meet the following eligibility criteria:*

Applicant must be a current AED member.Applicants must be a professional (e.g., researchers, clinicians) with interest or involvement in the field of eating and related disorders.
Have you received this award before? Individuals who have received this award more than once, or in the prior year, are not eligible.*

Yes, once, but not in the previous yearYes, more than onceNo
Personal Statement*

Please describe your research and/or clinical interests in the field of eating disorders, your career goals, and how the scholarship will further these goals. Include a brief statement (50 words or less) explaining how you qualify as under-represented within the AED or within your home country.
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Curriculum Vitae*

Please include a current curriculum vitae including academic degrees, appointments, recent employment history, teaching activities, community activities, references for any publications or presentations at eating disorder conferences, meetings, or seminars.
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Letters of Recommendation*

Please arrange for two (2) letters from professional associates that address your suitability for this award.
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ICED Abstracts

If you submitted an abstract for the next International Conference on Eating Disorders, please include an electronic copy of that abstract.
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Scholarship for People from Low/Middle Income Countries
Please confirm that you meet the following eligibility criteria:*

Applicant must be from a country classified as Low/Lower Middle Income by the World Bank or from a country underrepresented in AED.
Have you received this award before? Individuals who have received this award more than once, or in the prior year are not eligible.*

Yes, once, but not in the previous yearYes, more than onceNo
Personal Statement*

In two pages or less, please tell us about yourself, including your professional interests and your current work in eating disorders. In addition, please describe the financial or political situation in your country that makes it difficult to travel to the annual conference, and please describe a clear plan for how you are planning to disseminate knowledge/skills learned at the conference.
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Curriculum Vitae*

Please include all academic degrees, appointments/employment history, teaching activities, community activities, and references for any publications or presentations at scientific meetings.
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Letters of Recommendation*

Please arrange for two (2) letters from professional associates that address your suitability for this award.
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ICED Abstracts

If you submitted an abstract for the next International Conference on Eating Disorders, please include an electronic copy of that abstract.
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Student Research Grants
Please confirm that you meet the following eligibility criteria:*

Applicant must be a current student AED member.Applicant must be a full-time student in a degree program, including physicians-in-training with interest or involvement in the field of eating and related disorders. Postdoctoral trainees and residents are not eligible.Applicant must be nominated by a non-student member of AED.
Are you applying for an AED Travel Scholarship? In the same year, students may apply for either an AED Student Research Grant or an AED Travel Scholarship, but not both.*

YesNo
Have you received this award before? Individuals who have received this award more than once, or in the prior year are not eligible.*

Yes, once, but not in the previous yearYes, more than onceNo
Curriculum Vitae*

Please include a current curriculum vitae including academic degrees, appointments, recent employment history, teaching activities, community activities, references for any publications or presentations at eating disorders conferences, meetings, or seminars.
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Research Plan*

Please include a two-page, single-spaced plan outlining the specific aims of the project, the background literature, the study procedure and methods and the timeline for completion. Within the research plan, nominees should provide a brief statement that indicates: 1) whether the research fulfills a degree requirement (i.e., a thesis or a dissertation; NOTE: the information on whether the research is for a degree is not a requirement but is helpful information for the review committee); and 2) how the funds will be spent in the conduct of the research.
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Budget*

Please include a detailed budget that lists materials and other items and their costs.
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Nomination Letter*

Please provide one (1) nomination letter from a non-student member of the AED. This letter can be no longer than 500 words in length and should comment on your research plan, your potential as a researcher, and the potential for the successful completion of the proposed project.
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Letter of Support*

Please provide one (1) letter of support from a faculty member from your institution or the eating disorders field. This letter should be no longer than 500 words in the length and should address the importance of your proposed research and contributions to this work.
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Scholarship for Experts by Experience
Please confirm that you meet the following eligibility criteria:*

Applicant must be a current AED member in the Experts by Experience membership category.
Personal Statement*

In two pages or less, please tell us about yourself, including your current work in the field of eating disorders, the funding issues that make your travel to the annual conference difficult, and a clear description of how you plan to share the knowledge and skills learned at the conference with the Experts by Experience eating disorder community in your home region.
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Curriculum Vitae*

Please include a current curriculum vitae including academic degrees, appointments, recent employment history, teaching activities, community activities, references for any publications or presentations at eating disorders conferences, meetings, or seminars.
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Letters of Recommendation*

Please include two letters of recommendation from associates, co-workers, or others who can speak to your activities in the field of eating disorders.
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ICED Abstracts

If you submitted an abstract for the next International Conference on Eating Disorders, please include an electronic copy of that abstract.
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Thank you for completing your application.

Applications will be reviewed by the AED Awards and Scientific Review Committee.

All applicants will be notified of the results between 12/16-12/20.

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2025 AED Scholarship and Grant Applications

Personal Information

Scholarship or Grant Selection

Student/Early Career Investigator/ Clinical Trainee Travel Scholarship

Scholarship for Clinicians and Researchers Under-Represented within the AED

Scholarship for People from Low/Middle Income Countries

Student Research Grants

Scholarship for Experts by Experience