Echidna Global Scholars Visiting Fellowship 2027 ($26,500 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: December 1, 2026

Applications are open for the Echidna Global Scholars Visiting Fellowship 2027. The Echidna Global Scholars Program on the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings seeks to catalyze and amplify the influence of native leaders working to advance gender-transformative training throughout the Global South.

During a six-month fellowship, Echidna Global Scholars conduct particular person analysis centered on bettering studying alternatives and life outcomes for ladies, younger girls, and gender-nonconforming individuals, develop their management and proof-primarily based coverage abilities, construct substantive data on gender and world training points, and broaden their pathways for influence.

Program Phases

The Fellowship consists of 4 phases:

• Kickoff and analysis design retreat (April 2027): Sets the idea for the analysis coaching, management, and strategic influence elements of this system. Time dedication is one week, throughout which the students will meet with the CUE Gender Equality in and thru Education (GEE) workforce in individual to refine their analysis proposal, figuring out a coverage downside, designing a analysis study, and planning their knowledge assortment.
• Pre-residency (June-July 2027): With the assist of the CUE GEE workforce, students start an intensive interval of in-nation knowledge assortment and evaluation, accompanied by a sequence of digital workshops, group working conferences, and particular person advisory periods. Scholars are launched to the ideas and instruments that would be the focus of the management growth program all through the Fellowship and start growing an influence technique, figuring out and interesting with native actors. Time dedication is roughly 15-20 hours per week throughout this part.
• Residency (August-December 2027): The residency interval in Washington, D.C. focuses totally on clarifying Scholars’ focus and increasing their attain and influence. The residency part is designed to assist Scholars as they strengthen abilities and practices for analyzing, speaking, and leveraging analysis for coverage contexts and key audiences and interact in a reflective and individualized management growth program. The residency additionally seeks to broaden Scholars’ networks and promote visibility by means of Brookings convenings and strategic collaborations. Over the course of the residency, Scholars will have interaction in evaluation of knowledge collected in the course of the pre-residency part and can work intently with the CUE GEE workforce to translate their analysis into an motion-oriented coverage temporary and strategic commentaries, which might be printed and disseminated on Brookings’s multimedia platforms.
• Post-residency (2028-2029): During the put up-residency, students will take part within the Gender Equality in and thru Education Research and Policy Symposium. Over the 2-12 months interval following residency, the CUE workforce gives intentional assist to alumni as they translate their analysis into motion by means of the implementation of influence initiatives of their home international locations. Through influence planning, strategic advisement and management growth work, CUE helps students as they leverage the data, abilities, and connections constructed all through the Fellowship to catalyze change of their contexts.

Benefits

• Applicants chosen for the Fellowship will obtain a stipend totaling $26,500 USD to assist dwelling prices in the course of the pre-residency and residency durations (topic to U.S. tax withholding and reporting).
• In addition, CUE will cowl the prices related to the visa course of, prices related to the kick-off and analysis design retreat, single-occupancy housing for the 4-month residency interval, spherical-journey journey bills, and a restricted medical insurance plan.  

Eligibility

• The Program selects professionals with substantial expertise in and ties to the Global South, a transparent intent to return to the Global South after finishing the interval of residency at Brookings, and a ardour and demonstrated dedication to advancing gender equality in and thru training. 
• Applicants ought to have a background in training, gender and/or girls’s research, worldwide or world growth, public coverage, economics, or a associated social sciences or humanities space, with a minimal of 10 years {of professional} expertise in analysis/academia, non-governmental, group or civil society organizations, or authorities. Candidates with expertise in each tutorial or authorities settings and group organizations are particularly inspired to apply.
• A Master’s diploma is required.
• Successful candidates could have an in-depth understanding of training, growth, and gender points, sturdy analytical and writing abilities, the flexibility to take care of and collaborate with others, openness to provide and obtain suggestions, and the capability and want to study with velocity and suppleness.
• All Echidna Global Scholars should exhibit proficiency in English.

Application

Application supplies should embrace BOTH attachments: 

• A CV or resume which ought to embrace your training {and professional} expertise, in addition to a listing of your publications, and any fellowships, honors, awards, funded analysis, or basis assist that you’ve acquired.  
• The accomplished Echidna Global Scholars Program Application, which incorporates each a written questionnaire and a analysis proposal. Click on hyperlink to entry doc and add within the “Writing sample” part. Documents should be saved with a format of Last Name_First Name_document title (for instance: Doe_Jane_CV).  

Note that letters of advice, writing samples, and transcripts are NOT required. 

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Echidna Global Scholars Visiting Fellowship.