The Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (SEEKCommons) Fellowship is an initiative to bring graduate students and early-career researchers to socio-environmental research with common technologies. The SEEKCommons project is dedicated to building pathways for horizontal collaborations across Science and Technology Studies (STS), Open Science (OS), and socio-environmental researchers and community organizers.
The SEEKCommons Fellowship program is designed to:
- Encourage new integrative practices involving socio-environmental and climate action research with OS practices; and
- Provide a space for fellows and network members to collaborate on common research tools, issues, and challenges.
For 2025, the program is seeking nine fellows who are currently enrolled in a graduate program, hold a postdoctoral appointment, or are a professional practitioner working in a community-based organization and who demonstrate clear alignment with the goals and objectives of the SEEKCommons project. The program gives priority to applicants working on:
- Open technologies for data management, formats, standards, protection, and sharing strategies;
- Creating/adapting tools or workflows to support the reuse of open research technologies;
- FAIR Implementation Profiles for socio-environmental research for public benefit with orientation of CARE principles;
- Equity, collaboration, and justice in socio-environmental studies;
- STS research on responses to OS institutional mandates, data protection and sharing practices, and anti-commoning practices with the commercialization of the sciences.
The application process is open from November 7 - December 15, 2024, with successful fellows being notified by the end of January, 2025. For complete information about the program and to apply, see the Fellowship Application.
Posted by Akwasi Adusei-Amofah on December 04, 2024 at 08:18 AM MST #