Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) Humanitarian Futures: Gender, Displacement, and Justice Fellowship 2026 – YOA

Deadline: February 9, 2026

Applications are open for the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) Humanitarian Futures: Gender, Displacement, and Justice Fellowship 2026. The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) invites functions for an 8-month analysis fellowship designed to assist mid-profession researchers exploring essential questions on the intersection of gender, displacement, and humanitarian programs. This program facilities the management and data of displaced ladies and seeks to generate analysis that challenges typical humanitarian approaches and promotes inclusive, feminist options. 

Fellows will obtain monetary assist, analysis steering, and alternatives for peer studying and collaboration with WRC workers, and a cohort of fellow researchers. 

Research Focus Areas

Fellows will pursue authentic analysis on considered one of the next themes, or suggest another subject aligned with WRC’s mission and priorities, or will clarify their very own space of analysis that’s outdoors the listing beneath. 

• Redefining Protection: How do ladies outline security, dignity, and autonomy in displacement—and how can these definitions reshape humanitarian safety and GBV frameworks?  
• Gender, Power, and Systems Change: What does a feminist, decolonial, and neighborhood-pushed humanitarian system appear like in follow? What neighborhood-constructed or culturally rooted approaches to humanitarian response are rising – and how may they provide scalable options to conventional humanitarian assist? 
• Reproductive Health and Bodily Autonomy: How are displaced and migrant ladies and women accessing and experiencing reproductive well being care in humanitarian settings, and what does true bodily autonomy appear like in disaster contexts? How can humanitarian programs higher assist neighborhood-pushed approaches to contraception, maternal well being, abortion care, menstrual well being, and knowledgeable determination-making?  
• Dignified and Gender-inclusive Self-reliance: what are the important thing limitations and enablers for displaced ladies to safe sustainable and dignified self-reliance throughout totally different displacement settings? What are greatest practices from coverage or follow that may be replicated? 
• Rights and Justice: the affect of nationwide legal guidelines, insurance policies, and authorities practices on advancing or regressing safety, justice, and self-reliance for displaced, stateless, and migrant ladies 

Benefits

Fellowship Support contains: 

• Research Stipend 
• Research assist from WRC workers  
• Peer studying and cohort assist 
• Opportunities to current findings at convenings and publish via WRC platforms 

Eligibility

They are looking for early to mid-profession ladies researchers who: 

• Have accomplished or are at present enrolled in a graduate diploma (Master’s or PhD) in a associated discipline (International Studies, Political Science, Gender Studies, Public Health, Sociology, Anthropology, and so on.) and have 3-10 years of analysis expertise 
• Have lived expertise of displacement, pressured migration, or statelessness
• Demonstrate dedication to participatory, neighborhood-centered analysis methodologies 
• Have expertise working with or conducting analysis in displacement, migration, or humanitarian contexts 
• Are fluent in English 

Women are inspired to apply even when they don’t meet all listed eligibility necessities. 

Ideal candidates can even: 

• Have expertise translating analysis into coverage affect and advocacy 
• Have sturdy abilities in writing for varied audiences and stakeholders 
• Proficient in MS Office Suite and qualitative or quantitative knowledge evaluation software program
• Bring a gender justice lens to their work

Application

Submit the next supplies by February 9, 2026:

• Statement of Interest/Cover Letter (most 800 phrases): Your assertion of curiosity ought to embody: 
  • Brief biography (200 phrases max.) 
  • Why you might be  on this fellowship (300 phrases max.) 
  • How this fellowship aligns along with your skilled objectives and private experiences (300 phrases max.)    
• CV/Resume (most 3 pages) 
• Research Proposal (most 1,500 phrases): Your proposal ought to embody: 
  • Research query(s): What do you want to discover? 
  • Significance: Why does this analysis matter? How does it advance gender justice in displacement contexts? 
  • Methodology:  What analysis strategies will you utilize? How will you middle neighborhood data and guarantee moral, participatory approaches? 
    • If proposing another analysis subject (not listed above), please present clear rationale for the way it advances WRC’s mission.   
• Two Writing Samples: Submit two examples of analysis or analytical writing (revealed or unpublished) the place you’re the sole or lead writer. These might embody journal articles or e-book chapters; coverage briefs or reviews; dissertations or thesis chapters; evaluation or commentary items. At least one writing pattern ought to reveal your means to conduct impartial analysis. Writing samples ought to complete not more than 50 pages mixed. 
• Two References: Provide identify, title, affiliation and contact particulars 

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For extra info, go to WRC Fellowship.