Grants and Writing Resources for Alliant International University

Over the past year, fourteen students from Alliant's California School of Professional Psychology worked at six sites in the San Diego Regional Children's Mental Health Consortium. Together they held more than 1,200 individual and group sessions for over 200 underserved children, youth and families, according to the Alliant Educational Foundation's September 2026 report. The foundation funds students too. Over the summer it approved 15 new AEF Fellows, bringing the total to 70 that fall.

Research Grants and Fellowships

The Dr. Kazumi Nishio Research Grants total $36,000 for 2026. Smaller grants go to current students in APA-accredited doctoral psychology programs, and larger ones go to researchers and faculty. Proposals must focus on Asian or Asian-American mental health, with priority for international research.

The AEF Fellows Program supports clinical psychology Ph.D. and Psy.D. students in California with multi-year scholarships, mentorship and peer connections. Faculty refer the candidates. The foundation also funds named awards, including the Stephanie Byers-Bell Scholarship for a CSPP-Los Angeles doctoral student whose dissertation focuses on racial or gender equality. Alliant's Scholarship Search portal lists institutional awards, among them an Alumni Grant of $2,500 for a new master's program or $5,000 for a new doctoral program.

Dissertation Support

Alliant's Academic Support and Tutoring Services keeps a set of online dissertation resources: videos on writing sections such as the introduction and literature review, sample dissertations, qualitative and quantitative research guides, IRB information and Qualtrics survey access. Statistics help is live. Tutors meet students over Zoom, and hundreds of video tutorials walk through hand calculations, Excel and SPSS.

Help With Writing and Research

Alliant student tutors offer live writing tutoring over Zoom through Academic Support and Tutoring Services, with Tutor.com available for online writing help as well. Self-paced resources include APA formatting templates and the Academic Writer software. Appointments are booked online.

The Alliant Library offers research consultations and dissertation clearance, with librarians available in person, by phone, by videoconference or by email. Students can search ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and request books from LINK+, a California and Nevada network of more than 30 million items. The library is also open to the public.

For a final edit before submission, our PhD-level editors work with Alliant students at every level. See our Alliant International University dissertation and thesis editing and Alliant International University essay editing pages, or write to editors@editorsforstudents.com.