Awards & Grants

Elva Knight Research Grant  |  Est. 1982

The International Literacy Association (ILA) Elva Knight Research Grant provides a grant up to US$5,000 biennially for promising research that addresses significant questions for the discipline of reading/literacy research and practice. The grant is intended to provide researchers with the opportunity to develop important perspectives on the reading/literacy field.

This award will be offered again in August 2025.

Guidelines

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Past recipients

2024

tobias-kroll

Tobias Kroll, Texas Tech University
Cognitive-Linguistic and Auditory Subskills in Struggling Elementary-Age Readers

 

2023

No award given

2022

No award given

2021

No award given

2020

Alisha Nguyen

2019

Shea Kerkhoff

 

Complete list of past recipients

 

For additional information, contact ILAAwards@reading.org.