Carr-Ryan Center Technology and Human Rights Fellowship 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: February 22, 2026

Applications are open for the Carr-Ryan Center’s Technology and Human Rights Fellowship 2026-2027. The Carr-Ryan Center’s Technology and Human Rights Fellowship has lengthy been a key initiative exploring how technological developments form the way forward for human life and influence human rights protections. Under the management of the Center’s Director, Mathias Risse, this program introduced collectively between 10 and 15 digital fellows annually. It hosted the webinar collection Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology, in addition to many conferences and convenings.

As of the Academic Year 2024/25, the Fellowship shifted towards an in-depth deal with among the most important challenges of the know-how-human rights axis in our time. These are summarized in three questions: Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy? Who is aware of? Who decides?” Since 2024 the Center embraced this multi-12 months effort,gathered distinctive experience amongst its first two Fellowship cohorts, and has turn into a great home for the pursuit of latest solutions to the brand new questions that outline this frontier area.

Fellowship Activities

The cohort meets just about twice a month for in-depth discussions that draw on Fellows’ analysis initiatives. Each Fellow can be anticipated to affix an on-campus convening as soon as every semester for a variety of programmed occasions and actions. These are supposed to advance group improvement via mental trade and shared work-in-progress as initiatives transfer into their closing levels on their solution to publication. Travel subsidies are supplied.

While on-campus Fellows can also take part in auditing lessons, assembly school and different specialists, main scholar study teams, and participating within the myriad studying alternatives on the Harvard Kennedy School and adjoining establishments inside the University.

Eligibility

• They search initiatives that connect with the analysis applications in Professor Zuboff’s 2019 guide, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, her 2022 paper, “Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy, the Deathmatch of Institutional Orders,” and Professor Risse’s 2023 guide, Political Theory of the Digital Age.
• Past Fellows have been put up-docs, students, lecturers on sabbatical, human rights advocates, senior leaders in worldwide organizations, and established professionals from many distinct fields (legislation, healthcare, journalism, training, and extra) who share a deep dedication to the Fellowship’s mental priorities.
• They welcome early profession, mid-profession, and extra senior theorists, researchers, and practitioners whose work aligns with the Fellowship’s priorities and function.

Application

Project proposals needs to be outlined in as much as 3 pages and embrace the next parts:

• Background, context, and time horizon of the analysis downside.
• Alignment with Carr-Ryan Center priorities.
• The anticipated influence of your work and your {qualifications} for this analysis mission.
• Executive abstract of proposal (as much as 200 phrases)
• The contact data for 2 references who can remark in your capability to finish the proposed analysis. These people could also be contacted by the Carr-Ryan Center and needn’t submit documentation until requested.
• Relevant writing pattern (as much as 5 pages)
• A listing of prior publications (with hyperlinks or as much as 3 attachments)

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For extra data, go to Carr-Ryan Center’s Technology and Human Rights Fellowship.