Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellowship 2027 (up to $60,000) – YOA

Deadline: June 28, 2026

Applications are open for the Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellowship 2027. The Social Science Research Council invites proposals from researchers working on the intersection of know-how and society for the Just Tech Fellowship.

The Just Tech Fellowship helps rigorous, unique, and group-grounded work that addresses urgent questions on how know-how shapes society and public life. The program is designed for researchers, artists, and practitioners whose work advances considerate, sensible, and imaginative approaches to how know-how is designed, ruled, and skilled in public life.

The fellowship welcomes candidates from a variety of fields, strategies, and profession paths. Just Tech Fellows embrace artists, journalists, group-based mostly researchers, social scientists, humanists, technologists, and others whose work expands public understanding of know-how and contributes to extra knowledgeable and accountable technological futures.

Benefits

• The Just Tech Fellowship gives a one-yr unrestricted award of up to $60,000 to help analysis, inventive follow, or group-engaged work. The fellowship interval runs from January 2027 by way of December 2027 and is designed to present fellows with the assets and suppleness to advance bold initiatives on the intersection of know-how and society.
• The program contains month-to-month digital gatherings, individualized mentoring, and one in-particular person workshop that brings fellows collectively for centered change and collaboration. Fellows have interaction with friends, exterior companions, and members of the broader Just Tech community, fostering sustained mental {and professional} connections.
• In addition to the first award, fellows could apply for seed funding to help collaborative initiatives inside or throughout Just Tech cohorts. Participation within the fellowship additionally gives ongoing entry to the Just Tech community past the award yr.

Eligibility

• Citizens of any nation could apply. Fellows should reside within the United States at some point of the fellowship yr. The Social Science Research Council doesn’t sponsor visas and is probably not listed as an immigration sponsor.
• There aren’t any formal diploma necessities. Applicants could maintain tutorial credentials or show a sustained document of analysis, inventive follow, or public-dealing with work of their subject.
• The fellowship runs from January 2027 by way of December 2027. Fellows are anticipated to take part in month-to-month digital gatherings, mentoring classes, and one in-particular person workshop, whereas making sustained progress on their proposed venture.
• Applicants ought to show engagement with substantive questions associated to know-how and society.
• Individuals at the moment enrolled as full-time college students will not be eligible to apply.

Selection Criteria

Fellows are chosen by way of a rigorous evaluate course of. Applications are evaluated in accordance to the next standards:

• Articulated Practice: A clearly outlined analysis or inventive follow and a coherent physique of labor.
• Strength of Project: A compelling venture that addresses important questions on the intersection of know-how and society. Applicants ought to clearly describe the scope of labor and what will be meaningfully superior through the fellowship yr.
• Capacity to Execute: A demonstrated skill to carry initiatives ahead and produce work to completion.
• Public Engagement: Evidence of sharing work publicly or sustaining significant engagement with related fields, audiences, or areas of follow.
• Fit with the Fellowship: A considerate understanding of how participation within the Just Tech Fellowship would strengthen the proposed venture and contribute to the cohort expertise.
• Collaboration: A severe and constructive strategy to collaboration, together with a willingness to share work in progress and take part in sustained change with friends.

Application

The final day to submit full application supplies is June 28, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. EST. This is the one application window for the 2027 cohort.

To full the net application, candidates should submit the next:

• Résumé/CV: Up to two pages.
• Personal Statement: A written assertion of up to 1,000 phrases or a recorded video assertion of up to 5 (5) minutes. The assertion ought to describe your analysis or inventive follow, your major areas of focus, and the questions that information your work. You could reference prior initiatives that illustrate your strategy and growth.
• Work Proposal: The work proposal could also be submitted as both a written doc (most 3,000 phrases) or a venture deck (up to 10 slides). The proposal ought to tackle:
  • Concept Description: Clearly describe your central thought. What query, downside, or space of inquiry is your analysis supposed to tackle?
  • Engagement with Technology: Explain how the venture engages digital or rising applied sciences in substantive methods. This could embrace the design, use, evaluation, critique, or governance of technological techniques.
  • Approach and Contribution: Describe the attitude, methodology, or strategy your venture advances. What distinguishes your strategy, and the way does it contribute to broader conversations on the intersection of know-how and society?
  • Feasibility: What sensible, conceptual, or logistical challenges do you anticipate? How do you propose to tackle them through the fellowship yr?
  • Field Context: Are you conscious of different people, initiatives, or organizations engaged on associated questions? If so, clarify how your work relates to this broader panorama.
  • Public Contribution: How does this analysis venture contribute to broader conversations about know-how and society? What types of engagement, dissemination, or analysis do you anticipate throughout or past the fellowship yr?
• Work Samples: Two work samples that replicate your analysis, inventive follow, or public-dealing with work. Please embrace transient descriptions explaining your function in every work.

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For extra info, go to Just Tech Fellowship.