Ruth B. Noller Research Grant

Ruth B. Noller Research Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Creative Education Foundation
Amount: US $2,400
Last Updated: November 29, 2025

Summary

The Ruth B. Noller Research Grant, offered by the Creative Education Foundation, supports innovative research in creativity and education. This grant honors Ruth B. Noller's contributions to understanding creative thinking, including her famous creativity formula. Recipients will receive a $2,000 award, a framed citation, and travel support for CPSI 2026. Eligible candidates must have a bachelor's degree and be engaged in relevant research, aiming to share findings through peer-reviewed platforms.

Overview

Creative Education Foundation Mission The mission of the Creative Education Foundation is to spark personal and professional transformation by empowering people with the skill set, tool set, and mindset of deliberate creativity. Vision Our vision is to unlock the creative genius in everyone. The Creative Education Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization of leaders in the field of creativity theory and practice. Every day, principles fostered by CEF programs are helping someone, somewhere in the world, develop new products, make business operations run more profitably, restructure organizations and agencies to become more effective and less encumbered, reinvigorate economies, make improvements in our schools, revitalize communities, and replace ineffective methods and systems with new, more workable ones. We convene businesses, governments, NGOs, and individuals to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity for women and girls, reduce childhood obesity, create economic opportunity and growth, and help communities address the effects of climate change. Ruth B. Noller Research Grant The Creative Education Foundation is pleased to announce a creativity research grant program, honoring the pioneering work of creativity researcher and educator Ruth B. Noller. The Ruth B. Noller Research Grant fosters and supports emerging, paradigm-shifting research with high potential for impact in the field of creativity, creative education studies, and/or creative thinking by recognizing an individual or team engaged in such research. Noller was widely known for cultivating the scientific understanding for creative thinking. Noller is most famous for developing the creativity formula ƒa (KIE) – the interaction between Knowledge, Imagination, and Evaluation generates Creativity. Noller’s groundbreaking work served as the stimulus for future research in creativity. The successful applicant will receive a $2,000 cash award, a framed citation from CEF, free registration to CPSI 2026 and a travel allowance of $400 to defer costs to attend CPSI 2026.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Candidates must have a minimum of bachelor degree level of academic work, with a demonstrated capacity for conducting research.Candidates must be currently working on, or soon to commence, a research project that aligns with the purpose of this grant.Candidates must be willing and able to disseminate their findings through recognized peer review journals, such as, but not limited to, the Journal of Creative Behavior.Candidates must be willing to present their work to a future Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI), either virtually or in person.