WWF Current and Aspiring University Faculty Fellowship 2026-2027 (up to $30,000) – YOA

Deadline: December 18, 2025

Applications are open for the WWF Current and Aspiring University Faculty Fellowship 2026-2027. To strengthen native capability in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and Caribbean, WWF’s Russell E. Train Education for Nature Program (EFN) seeks to help present and aspiring school members to pursue their PhD in-nation, regionally, or globally.

The goal of this aggressive fellowship is to advance the event of a crucial mass of excellent and nicely-educated consultants, pure and social scientists, and practitioners who will proceed to improve the training, analysis, and engagement in conservation science and management.

Focus Areas

The fellowship goals to bridge tutorial excellence and conservation analysis to present palms-on expertise, studying, and coaching alternatives. The proposed analysis matters might cowl a variety of themes. Finalists shall be recognized by way of a aggressive choice course of and scored based mostly on a set of standards together with, however not restricted to, the next areas:

• Academic and skilled contributions/potential: applicant’s dedication to their tutorial, analysis, and skilled improvement.
• Strength and high quality of the analysis proposal: uniqueness of proposed subject, relevance, and detailed plan of motion. The proposed work demonstrates an understanding of the fellowship’s rationale. The proposed analysis work highlights the intent to discover options on the interface of local weather, conservation, folks, and sustainable improvement; the proposed ac vi es are possible inside the proposed work plan and practical finances.
• Individual and collective affect: the applicant’s skill to achieve conservation analysis and management; brief and lengthy-time period impacts in addition to lasting conservation outcomes past proposed tutorial/analysis timeframe. The proposed work goals to have interaction various stakeholders, together with gender mainstreaming and involvement of native and indigenous communities. The applicant demonstrates potential to construct partnerships and lively engagement with native communities, tutorial, analysis, and practitioners.
• Project measurability: the proposed analysis has measurable outcomes and outputs.
• Collaborations: the applicant’s demonstrated potential to improve partnerships past the proposed goals and timeframe.
• Recommendation letters: the applicant meets the particular standards for the fellowship with particular examples which reveal the applicant’s skills.

Funding

• Applicants might apply for up to three years of funding and request up to $30,000 per yr. The quantity of funding authorized will range.

Eligibility

• Open to nationals of eligible nations inside World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-US precedence areas who’re already enrolled/are desirous about enrolling in a PhD program.
• Eligible nations embody: Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chile, Colombia, Dem. Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Fiji, French Guiana, Gabon, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Paraguay, Peru, Republic of Congo, Suriname, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zambia.

Application

The deadline to apply is December 18, 2025 by 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. Accepted candidates shall be notified by June 2026.

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For extra data, go to WWF Current and Aspiring University Faculty Fellowship.