GovAI Summer Fellowship 2026 – Applied Track (£12,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: January 4, 2026

Applications are open for the GovAI Summer Fellowship 2026 – Applied Track. Seasonal Fellowships are three-month alternatives designed to launch or speed up impactful careers in AI governance and coverage. Participants within the “Applied Track” execute initiatives of their alternative in areas aside from conventional analysis. They additionally take part in an skilled Q&A and seminar sequence aimed toward creating a broad understanding of the sector and spend time forging connections with researchers and practitioners.

Fellowship Details

Seasonal Fellows within the Applied Track be part of GovAI to work on challenge(s) of their alternative in areas aside from conventional analysis. Past utilized initiatives have included organising a excessive-impression occasion, working as a challenge supervisor for coverage engagement work, creating the communications technique for a brand new AI security org, and writing a sequence of coverage memos to tell reside coverage improvement. They are probably open to a broad array of initiatives, so long as the applicant could make a case for the way the challenge would assist to set them up for an impactful non-analysis profession in AI governance. 

Each fellow is paired with a mentor from the GovAI staff or community. They spend the primary two weeks of the fellowship exploring what challenge(s) could be most dear for them to work on, with enter from their mentor, the Fellowship Team, and the broader GovAI group; and the next ten weeks executing on them.  

Alongside their initiatives, fellows will even make investments time in upskilling on AI governance and widening their skilled community. GovAI will arrange a sequence of Q&A classes with AI governance consultants, weekly seminars aimed toward creating topic-matter data, workshops for constructing related abilities,  work-in-progress conferences that facilitate peer-to-peer suggestions, and social occasions. Fellows will even be inspired to debate observe-on profession alternatives with the GovAI staff and community.

Benefits

• Summer Fellows will be part of for 3 months, between 8 June and 28 August, within the workplace in London, UK. Fellows will obtain a stipend of £12,000, plus assist for travelling to London.
• While in London, they supply Fellows with lunch on weekdays and a desk within the London workplace. This is meant to be a full-time and in-individual function. They are capable of sponsor 3-month momentary work visas. For profitable candidates who require a visa, observe that you will want to stay in your nation of visa application for a while whereas the visa application is underway.

Eligibility

• They strongly encourage you to apply in case you are curious about utilizing your profession to assist choice-makers navigate the transition to a world with superior AI, in roles wherein analysis shouldn’t be the primary responsibility. Some of the most in-demand roles within the discipline at present are operations and communications employees, analysis and program managers, and coverage engagement professionals.
• They are curious about candidates from a broad set {of professional} backgrounds, together with these with expertise in authorities, academia, trade, startups, media, or civil society. There aren’t any particular necessities for the function, though they count on that probably the most promising candidates will usually have related skilled expertise in roles involving, for instance, communications, coverage, subject advocacy, occasions, analysis administration, program administration, operations, fundraising, or analysis. 

When assessing functions, they are going to be searching for candidates who’ve the next strengths or present constructive indicators of having the ability to develop them:

• Relevant experience: Skills or data which might be more likely to be helpful for non-analysis roles in AI governance. As talked about above, we expect that related experience can take many various varieties. 
• Quality of labor: The means to carry out on the highest stage of their space of experience. We are searching for indicators of excellence.
• Judgement: The means to prioritise between totally different initiatives, and good intuitions in regards to the feasibility of various initiatives.
• ‍Team match: Openness to suggestions, dedication to mental honesty and rigour, consolation in expressing uncertainty, and a severe curiosity in utilizing your profession to contribute to AI governance.

Application

The application course of consists of a written submission within the first spherical. Selected candidates will then full an roughly 20-minute automated evaluation that serves as a pathway to the second spherical, which features a paid distant work check. In the ultimate spherical, they are going to invite candidates to a distant interview. 

Applications for the Summer Fellowship are actually open. The deadline for functions is 23:59 GMT Sunday 4 January, 2026.

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For extra info, go to GovAI Summer Fellowship.