Carr Center Technology and Human Rights Fellowship 2025-2026

Deadline: January 5, 2025

Applications are open for the Carr Center Technology and Human Rights Fellowship 2025-2026. The Carr Center’s Technology and Human Rights Fellowship is a key initiative exploring how technological progress will form the way forward for human life and affect human rights protections.

They invite candidates to affix the Center for an instructional 12 months to analysis the moral and rights implications of technological developments, with a selected give attention to synthetic intelligence. Note that Technology and Human Rights Fellowships are usually not funded. All fellowship phrases are one tutorial 12 months (September 1-June 30).

Research Theme for 2025–2026 Cohort: Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy?

The 2025–2026 Technology & Human Rights Fellowship cohort might be composed of students and practitioners who work on the theme of “Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy: Who Knows, Who Decides?” We search tasks that connect with the analysis packages in Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 ebook, The Age Surveillance Capitalism, and Mathias Risse’s 2023 ebook, Political Theory of the Digital Age. They take a particular curiosity in tasks associated to the “unified field theory” outlined by Zuboff in her 2022 Organization Theory paper, “Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy? The Death Match of Institutional Orders and the Politics of Knowledge in our Information Civilization.”

This fellowship theme, collectively directed by Mathias Risse and Shoshana Zuboff, invitations candidates from numerous approaches and disciplines to affiliate with the Center for a 12 months of analysis. The fellowship 12 months can even characteristic actions centered across the theme “Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy,” together with occasions commemorating the fifth anniversary of Zuboff’s ebook.

Fellowship

• This unpaid fellowship spans one tutorial 12 months, primarily as a non-residential place. While restricted shared workplace house could also be supplied for residents, occasional entry to shared workplace amenities is feasible for these visiting the Cambridge/Boston space.
• Fellows are required to attend Cambridge, MA as soon as per semester to trade concepts, current their work to the Carr Center and the broader Kennedy School neighborhood, and take part in related displays, trainings, or workshops. Limited journey subsidies could also be offered for these in want.

Eligibility

• Fellows may be post-docs, students, lecturers on sabbatical, human rights defenders, senior leaders in worldwide organizations, or heads of human rights organizations. Fellow tasks should align intently with the analysis and programming priorities of the Center. 
• They welcome each rising and established students and practitioners whose analysis and observe are aligned with the Center’s priorities. Fellows can give attention to analysis and writing, auditing lessons, assembly school and different consultants, main research teams for college students, and taking part in different studying alternatives on the Harvard Kennedy School. 

Application

The following objects needs to be included in your utility:

• Resume/CV 
• Project proposal that outlines the background or context, the character of the issue, the time horizon for the issue, the proposed nature of your analysis venture or intervention (together with the way it suits with the Carr Center’s work), the anticipated affect, and your {qualifications} (as much as 3 pages) 
• Executive abstract of proposal (as much as 200 phrases) 
• The contact info for 2 references who can remark in your capacity to finish the proposed analysis. These people could also be contacted by the Carr Center and needn’t submit documentation except requested.
• Relevant writing pattern (as much as 5 pages) 
• An inventory of prior publications (with hyperlinks or as much as 3 attachments) 

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For extra info, go to Technology and Human Rights Fellowship.