2025 SEEKCommons Fellowship

The SEEKCommons Fellowship is an initiative to bring graduate students and early-career researchers to socio-environmental research with common technologies.

The Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (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 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.

Priority Topics for Fellowships

Priority will be given to applicants with community-based projects 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 commercialisation of the sciences.

Eligibility

In order to be eligible for this SEEKCommons Fellowship program, you must:

• Be currently enrolled in a graduate program, or hold a postdoctoral appointment, or be a professional practitioner working in a community-based organisation;
• Demonstrate clear alignment with the goals and objectives of the SEEKCommons project. This will be assessed via your application materials.

Of the nine fellowships offered in each cohort, at least one will be reserved for:

• An indigenous STS fellow working on the priority topics listed above under “potential research topics”
• An applicant that engages with the research questions elaborated in partnership with OSHWA or Tor Project.

Benefits

SEEKCommons Fellows will benefit from these offerings:

• Stipends: $8,000 graduate students, $12,000 post-docs and professionals
• Mentorship from SEEKCommons project and network members
• Training in OS, STS, and Socio-environmental research topics
• Participation in virtual meetings and annual SEEKCommons convenings
• Access to computing infrastructure (via SEEKCommons Lab)

How to apply

The deadline for applications is December 15, 2024. To learn more and apply, please click here.