Applications for the 2023 Practitioner Fellowship is now open. Apply below.
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When is Application Deadline?
14th October, 2022 at 5:00pm pacific time.
What is the Award?
The Practitioner Fellowships at the Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL) and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) support social sector leaders so that they can have time to develop ideas to benefit civil society. These might include: designing tools to protect civil society actors and advance racial justice, developing policy frameworks to govern the use of data, or prototyping tools to mitigate bias in emerging technologies. The program aims to catalyze and support a broad range of projects envisioned and led by the selected fellows. The fellowship provides time, space, expertise, and financial support to help turn ideas into prototypes or action, and fellows become part of a cohort that thrives with access to an intellectual community.
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Guidelines:
Each fellow will pursue a project or set of activities of their own design over the course of the fellowship. Applicants pursuing projects that are already in progress, as well as projects that may not be fully completed within 18 months, are eligible to apply.
Fellows are expected to engage as a cohort with the other Practitioner Fellows as well as with Stanford postdoctoral fellows, faculty, staff, and student researchers.
While we welcome applications from outside the United States, we are currently unable to support the acquisition of visas. If you are applying from outside the United States and are accepted, you will need to secure your own visa for any travel to Stanford.
What Type of Award is This?
Fellowship
Who is Eligible?
The Non-Resident Fellowship is open to applicants 18 years of age or older who meet the following conditions:
- Meet all submission deadlines and submit the application in English;
- Must be eligible to receive a stipend payment from a United States institution;
- Fellowship recipients located in the United States must have a social security number to receive the stipend payment
- Commit to spend 18 months undertaking a project addressing one of two topical tracks: Digital Civil Society, or Technology and Racial Equity;
- Commit to contribute a final written report, video or audio interview;
- Commit to attend a week-long convening of the fellowship cohort, to be scheduled in late February or early March 2023. This “fellows week” involves presentations by fellows on their project progress, and opportunities to meet other communities at Stanford. Fellows are encouraged to engage with and imagine/identify additional collective activities for their cohort.
- Please note that your initiative cannot involve a partisan political campaign or legislative lobbying efforts.
How are Applicants Selected?
The selection process will take into consideration the following criteria:
- Potential impact
- Does the project address a question or challenge that is broadly relevant across civil society?
- Will the project contribute significant new knowledge or create substantial positive change?
- Does the Fellow demonstrate a deep understanding of the issue their project addresses?
- Will the Fellow and the project benefit from engagement with an academic research community?
- Does the Fellow actively participate in networks and partnerships that will support the success of the project? Is there a clear sense of the intended users or beneficiaries and how they will be able to apply the project’s outcomes?
- Quality of project proposal
- Is the project plan thoughtful and well-articulated?
- Have potential risks and challenges received adequate consideration?
- Are goals, timelines, and deliverables realistic?
- Has the applicant identified partnerships and resources that will catalyze the project?
What is the Benefit of Award?
All fellows will receive:
- A $25,000 stipend, paid at the beginning of the fellowship, to support work on an 18-month project
- Paid expenses to attend a week-long convening on the Stanford campus for fellows to meet and develop their project plan. Fellows will present their project plan as part of a “kick off” session. This “fellows week” is scheduled to take place in late February or early March 2023.
- Mentorship from fellowship directors and access to fellowship alumni from previous cohorts
- Access to research staff to develop and extend their projects.
- Access to Stanford faculty, students, and staff to develop their projects and develop their network
- Opportunities to participate in other programming at DCSL, CCSRE, and other Stanford centers throughout the fellowship
What this fellowship is NOT:
- An opportunity to perform primarily academic research
- A residential, full-time fellowship
How to Apply:
Interested applicants should complete the online application during the application window.
During the application process you will be asked to submit:
- cover letter
- resume or CV
- brief project proposal
- contact information for two professional references
Goodluck!
