The Johns Hopkins University is seeking an Associate Director, Civic Learning for the Center for Social Concern (CSC), housed on the Homewood Campus. The CSC fosters a lifelong commitment to active citizenship by integrating education, action, and reflection into community-focused programming for Hopkins’ students within Baltimore City.

Associate Director Civic Learning

The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is accepting applications for its International Programs Fellowship at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The Fellowship is a full-time position lasting for two years and will begin in summer 2024. The Fellowship is sponsored and managed by PRB and funded through the PROPEL Health Project. The Fellow will work within USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health located in Washington, D.C., which works to advance and support voluntary family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide. The Fellowship is intended for recent graduates with a B.A. or B.S.; candidates with advanced degrees are ineligible and should not apply.

All application materials, including letters of recommendation, must be submitted by February 23, 2024.

Complete information is on the application website

Mirror Group is searching for Fellows that will use their historical archival research, policy analysis, Census and local administrative data analysis, and/or community advocacy experience to support an expansion of a local regional history project in the DC, Maryland, Virginia area (DMV) funded by a funder collaborative. The ideal candidates will have subject matter expertise, research competencies, and lived experience (including local residence) in Washington DC and/or the surrounding Maryland and Virginia counties.

These are part-time, 2-year fellowship positions from January 2024-December 2025 that require work to be performed both on-site and remotely in Washington, DC and the surrounding counties of Maryland (Montgomery, Prince George’s) and Northern Virginia (Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax).

Priority will be given to applications received by February 6, 2024.

See complete information using this Google Drive link

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (LBNL) Energy Analysis Environmental Impacts (ETA) Division has an opening for a Postdoctoral Fellow.

In this role, you will conduct research related to social and economic impacts and acceptance of large-scale renewable energy throughout the U.S., including both wind energy and solar energy.  The research will focus on procedural and distributive justice, with special consideration of both urban and rural historically disadvantaged communities.

See full details at the application website

The Racial Equity Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. Spencer will be accepting applications for projects ranging from one to five years with budgets up to $75,000.

Intent to Apply Form Deadline: May 29, 2024

Full information is on the Spencer website.

The Russell Sage Foundation’s Visiting Scholars Program provides a unique opportunity for select scholars in the social, economic, political and behavioral sciences to pursue their data analysis and writing while in residence at the foundation’s headquarters in New York City.

The foundation annually awards 15 to 17 Visiting Scholar fellowships. Applicants must be at least two years beyond the Ph.D. when applying.

Applications for the 2025-2026 year are due June 25, 2024.

For more information, check the RSF website

Call for Proposals Extended Deadline: March 4, 2024

The American Educational Research Association Fellowship Program on the Study of Deeper Learning is accepting research proposals until March 4, 2024. With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, this Fellowship supports postdoctoral and early career scholars in education research using the Deeper Learning data collected by the American Institutes for Research. These data include a wealth of information about students, schools, and teachers in the sample of Deeper Learning high schools. 

The AERA-SDL Fellowship Call for Proposals and further program information is available on the AERA website.

The Graduate Education Diversity Internship Program provides paid internship and training opportunities during the academic year. The GEDI program works to engage and support students from groups traditionally under-represented in the field of evaluation. Interns may come from a variety of disciplines including public health, education, political science, anthropology, psychology, sociology, social work, and the natural sciences. Their commonality is a strong background in research skills, an interest in extending their capacities to the field of evaluation, and a commitment to thinking deeply about culturally responsive evaluation practice. 

Applications for the 2024-2025 Graduate Education Diversity Internship Program are now open and will close March 8, 2024.

See complete information on the AEA website.

The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering two fellowships with application deadline of January 31, 2024. (See separate links below for full information.)

Fellowship 1: Science Research, Policy, and Data in Social and Economic Sciences (SES) and Public Access and Open Science. The Fellow will assist SES division leadership and program officers in analyses, communications, and related matters to assess a variety of outcomes. Activities include examinations of NSF’s merit review process, portfolio and participant balance for diversity, equity, and inclusion and accessibility and other important considerations. In addition, the Fellow will assist division leadership and program officers in a variety of public access and open science (PAOS) efforts, with a primary focus on the implementation of NSF’s 2023 Public Access Plan.

Fellowship 2: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Innovation Fellow to provide scientific, research, and program management expertise to cross-cutting SBE directorate opportunities, such as the Centers for Research and Innovation in Science, the Environment, and Society (CRISES) program. These emerging opportunities focus on the contributions that an understanding and integrated application of the SBE sciences can make to intractable problems that confront society. The SBE Fellow will have the opportunity to take a collaborative role in the further development of such opportunities and initiatives, as well as engage with programs in the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities on matters of research program oversight. These programs focus on support for student and early-career scientists, minority- serving institutions, and the study of ethical and responsible research.

Dartmouth College invites applications for the Thurgood Marshall Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship. They seek qualified applicants working in any geographies and disciplines and interdisciplinary spaces across African Diaspora, African American, African, or Africana Studies. Particular attention will be given to candidates whose work augments and complements current faculty in the Department of African and African American Studies. Applications from candidates who are underrepresented in their fields are especially welcome.

This is a two-year residential fellowship in which the fellow is focused on their research and writing. Fellows are expected to complete the dissertation at the end of their first year and then transition to a postdoctoral appointment for the second year.

Review of applications will begin February 15, 2024. See the announcement online for complete information and to apply.