2022 Summer Collaborative Research Fellowship for PhD Students
Sponsored by
Stanford Impact Labs
Funding Type:
Stipend
Open To:
PhD
Summer
Applications closed
Applications closed on March 28, 2022
Approximate Offer Date:
Friday, April 8, 2022
Stanford Impact Labs is leading its annual Summer Collaborative Research Fellowship. We are inviting co-applications from PhD students alongside a faculty mentor, due March 28.
The Summer Collaborative Research Fellowship is intended to support PhD students to wok on a well-defined research project that addresses a social problem. Research projects should have the potential to lead to new policy or programmatic insights, and a strategy for how those insights will be integrated to help make progress. Fellows will work under the mentorship of a faculty member as part of a team of scholars working in a collaborative research environment, allowing them to engage in the full scope of the scientific research process, including academic publication.
Graduate fellows participate in weekly sessions led by Stanford Impact Labs to provide skills-training around engaged scholarship. Topics include understanding the problem and solutions landscape; effectively working in partnership; engaging policymakers; communicating to external audiences; and navigating impact-focused career pathways within and beyond academia. This opportunity is also intended to strengthen fellows’ interdisciplinary research community and contribute to the growing community of scholars who are motivated and prepared to drive research that yields solutions to challenging social problems.
Schedule: Fellowship sessions will be held throughout summer quarter from 12-1:30pm on June 23, June 28, July 5, July 12, July 19 and Aug 10. Fellows will be organized into small groups that will also meet weekly. Sessions will be offered in-person outdoors, via Zoom or hybrid, depending on the evolving situation and preferences of the selected cohort.
Funding: The program includes a $4,000 supplemental fellowship stipend.
Eligibility and Requirements:
Who is eligible? PhD students across all schools and disciplines
To Apply:If you are interested, please complete this short application, due March 28. Decisions will be communicated the first week of April. Applicants will be evaluated on:
Relevance of the research project in addressing a compelling social problem; applicants are encouraged to be working in, or towards partnership with practitioners (e.g. community organization, nonprofit, public sector office) as part of their research and process
Potential value-add to the doctoral student, including the collaborative research and mentoring environment in which she/he/they will be situated
Clarity of scope of work and potential benefits to the research team and project outcomes
All interested faculty are encouraged to join the Stanford Impact Labs Affiliate Network. More information is available here.