Echidna Global Scholars Visiting Fellowship 2026 ($26,500 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: December 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Echidna Global Scholars Visiting Fellowship 2026. During a six-month fellowship, Echidna Global Scholars conduct particular person analysis targeted on enhancing studying alternatives and life outcomes for ladies, younger girls, and gender non-conforming folks, develop their management and proof-primarily based coverage abilities, construct substantive information on gender and world schooling points, and increase their pathways for influence.

Fellowship Details

The Echidna Global Scholars fellowship consists of three distinct phases:

• Pre-residency (in home nation): With the assist from the Center for Universal Education (CUE), students start an intensive interval of in-nation knowledge assortment and evaluation, accompanied by a sequence of digital workshops, group working conferences, and particular person advisory periods. Scholars are launched to the management ideas and instruments that would be the focus of the management improvement program all through the fellowship and start growing their influence technique—figuring out and interesting with native stakeholders from their home nation.
• Residency (Washington, D.C.): Scholars deal with increasing attain and influence by way of publication and dissemination of their analysis on Brookings’ multimedia platforms, strategic influence capability constructing, management improvement, and networking. The residency section is designed to assist students strengthen their influence by instructing greatest practices for analyzing, speaking, and leveraging analysis for coverage and key audiences, in addition to increasing students’ networks and selling visibility by way of Brookings convenings and strategic collaborations—culminating in a digital symposium on gender equality in and thru schooling analysis and coverage.
• Post-residency (in home nation): During the 2-12 months put up-residency interval, the CUE crew supplies focused assist to alumni as they implement influence plans that construct off their analysis. Through strategic advisement, group working conferences, and management improvement assist, students leverage the information, abilities, and connections constructed all through the fellowship to catalyze change of their native contexts.

Benefits

• Applicants chosen for the Fellowship will obtain a stipend totaling $26,500 USD to assist residing prices throughout the pre-residency and residency durations (topic to U.S. tax withholding and reporting). In addition, CUE will cowl the prices related to the visa course of, single-occupancy housing for the 4-month residency interval, spherical-journey journey bills, and a restricted medical insurance plan.

Eligibility

Echidna Global Scholars coming into the fellowship are mid-profession leaders with expertise in and a demonstrated dedication to enhancing studying alternatives and life outcomes for ladies, younger girls, and gender non-conforming folks in and thru schooling within the Global South.

Specific standards for eligibility:

• Substantial expertise in, ties to, and a transparent intent to return to a rustic within the Global South.
• Background in schooling, improvement, public coverage, economics, or a associated social sciences or humanities space; a Master’s diploma (or greater) is required.
• 10+ years {of professional} expertise in analysis/academia, nongovernmental, neighborhood, or civil society organizations, or authorities.
• An intimate understanding of schooling improvement points and gender.
• Ability to collaborate with others, openness to provide and obtain suggestions, and capability and need to be taught with velocity and suppleness.
• All Echidna Global Scholars should exhibit proficiency in English.

Application

In addition to a canopy letter and CV, all candidates reply a questionnaire and submit a 3-5 web page proposal for a uniquely developed analysis challenge designed to extend the proof base and enhance studying alternatives and life outcomes for ladies, younger girls, and gender non-conforming folks of their nations.

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For extra data, go to Echidna Global Scholars.