DEADLINE EXTENDED: The 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program

The application deadline has been extended to Monday, March 23
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Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program, which offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the future-focused research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.

The Pardee Center conducts interdisciplinary, policy-relevant and future-oriented research that can contribute to long-term improvements in the human condition. The Center is especially interested in rigorous analysis relating to longer-range human development. We especially encourage proposals for research that has the potential to identify actions that can be taken today to make our collective global tomorrow better.

The 10-week fellowship (May 26 – July 31, 2020) includes a financial stipend of $6,000, structured interaction with Pardee Center affiliated faculty and research fellows, and a collegial atmosphere that fosters peer support and intellectual growth. Summer Fellows occupy workspace provided at the Pardee House while they conduct independent research and produce a substantive research paper that may be considered for publication by the Pardee Center. Fellows are expected to work at the Pardee House each Monday through Friday for the duration of the Fellowship and to participate fully in Pardee Center activities and all Summer Fellows’ events.

The Graduate Summer Fellowships are open to all Boston University graduate students from all its Schools and Colleges. First-year master’s and early to mid-stage doctoral students, including ABDs, are especially encouraged to apply. (Students completing degrees in May 2020 are not eligible.) Research proposals that link directly to the student’s own and/or BU faculty’s ongoing research are especially desirable.

Proposals for any topic related to the Pardee Center’s longer-range global human development research mission will be considered. Winning proposals will be interdisciplinary in nature with a clear sense of the topic’s importance and policy relevance to the longer-range future. We are especially interested in topics related to the great challenges of our time (such as, but not limited to, the future of human and sustainable development, democracy, information and new media, social and economic inequities, technological and business innovation, climate change and environmental degradation, human and international security, etc.). Successful proposals will clearly convey how the research is related to improving quality of life, especially of the most marginalized; clearly articulate how the research is relevant to the longer-range future; and explain why and how it can be completed in a 10-week period. Applications are encouraged from ALL fields, including the social and natural sciences, humanities, arts, business, public health, engineering, etc.

The deadline for applications has been extended, and is now close of business on Monday, March 23, 2020. Candidates will be notified of the outcomes by late April. Detailed application instructions are available here.

Questions regarding the Summer Fellowship Program may be directed to gsfellow@bu.edu. A list of frequently asked questions can be found here.