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2025 SCIP Fellowship Application

Fellowship Application Requirements:

The SCIP Fellowship is a one-year professional development opportunity for pre-tenure faculty at U.S. higher education institutions who identify as underrepresented racial or ethnic minorities. The Fellowship will have a different thematic focus in each of its three one-year cohorts. Each of these foci relates, broadly, to climate change. SCIP Fellows will gain science communication expertise and practice and build their professional networks in ways that may support new collaborations and research insights.

This application is for consideration in Cohort 3, which will focus on faculty members in natural or social science or engineering who study any aspect of agriculture, aquaculture, and/or food security as it relates to climate change. For more information about fellowship objectives, eligibility, or obligations, please visit https://scicommidentities.org/fellowship/.

To be considered for the SCIP Fellowship, applicants must:

  1. complete the following survey and
  2. submit their current CV.

Fellows will be selected based on their stated interests and goals for leveraging the training through, for example, their research, teaching, advising, and/or public engagement. Selections will maximize the diversity of each fellowship cohort concerning race and ethnicity, geography, discipline, gender, and experience.

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Application Questions:

Section 1: Agreement to Participate

Following agreement to participate: 

  1. By typing your full name below, you indicate that you have read and understood the above information and volunteer to participate in this study.

Following info about the fellowship:

  1. Submit your CV as a PDF file

Section 2: Personal Information

  1. First Name
  2. Last name
  3. Email address
  4. Mailing address
  5. telephone number
  6. Institutional affiliation
  7. Name of college or school
  8. Name of department or program
  9. Indicate the nature of your current position. Please note that the SCIP Fellowship is only open to tenure track faculty who are pre-tenure (assistant professor level), postdoctoral scholars who have a confirmed tenure track position that will begin by August 2025, and graduate students who have a confirmed tenure track position that will begin by January 2025.
  10. Job title
  11. List the titles of courses you have taught or are teaching 
  12. Approximate number of students taught per year

Section 3: Your Research 

Please limit your answers to 250 words (1250 characters including spaces).

  1. What do you study? Briefly describe your research goals and activities. 
  2. How does your work relate to this year’s fellowship cohort theme of climate change and agriculture, aquaculture, and/or food security?

Section 4: Your Science Communication Experience 

Please limit your answers to 250 words

  1. How, if at all, do you engage in science communication? Please describe.
  2. What motivates you to engage in or want to engage in science communication? 
  3. How do your identities affect or influence your academic work? This may relate to your scholarship, teaching, and/or science communication practices outside of the classroom.
  4. If there are specific non-classroom audiences you engage with or want to engage in your science communication, please describe.

Section 5: Your Science Communication Training

  1. Have you previously participated in science communication training? If yes, include all of these events on your CV.  [yes skips to Q21, no skips to Q22, not sure skips to Q22]
  2. Briefly describe the training(s) and how it/they met or did not meet your needs. How, if at all, has your previous science communication training informed and/or changed your science communication practices? Please limit your response to 1,750 characters (including spaces).
  3. Are there reasons that you have not previously participated in science communication training? Your answer here will help us design training that will best meet the cohort’s needs. Please limit your response to 1,750 characters (including spaces).

Section 6: Personal Impacts of Fellowship

Please limit your answers to 250 words

  1. Why do you want to participate in the SciComm Identities Project (SCIP) Fellowship? 
  2. How do you expect to apply the SCIP Fellowship experience in your work? 
  3. Describe the impact(s) you anticipate this experience will have on your research, teaching, tenure narrative development and/or review, science communication, and/or other professional pursuits.

Section 7: Demographic Info

  1. Race and ethnicity. Select all that apply. 
  2. Gender (write in)
  3. Do you have a disability and/or are you disabled? (write in)
  4. Please feel free to share any other aspects of your identity. (write in)
  1. How did you hear about this Fellowship?

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Following informed consent: 

  1. By typing your full name below, you indicate that you have read and understood the above information and volunteer to participate in this study.

Following info about the fellowship:

  1. Submit your CV here as a PDF file

Section 1: Personal Information

  1. First Name
  2. Last name
  3. Email address
  4. Mailing address
  5. Telephone number
  6. Institutional affiliation
  7. Name of college or school
  8. Name of department or program
  9. Job title
  10. List the titles of courses you have taught or are teaching 
  11. Approximate number of students taught per year

Section 2: Your Research 

Please limit your answers to 150 words.

  1. What do you study? Briefly describe your research goals and activities. 
  2. How does your work relate to this year’s fellowship cohort theme of water and climate change?

Section 3: Your Science Communication Experience 

Please limit your answers to 250 words

  1. How, if at all, do you engage in science communication? Please describe.
  2. What motivates you to engage in or want to engage in science communication? 
  3. How do your identities affect or influence your academic work? This may relate to your scholarship, teaching, and/or science communication practices outside of the classroom.
  4. If there are specific non-classroom audiences you engage with or want to engage in your science communication, please describe.

Section 4: Your Science Communication Training

  1. Have you previously participated in science communication training? If yes, include all of these events on your CV.  [yes skips to Q21, no skips to Q22, not sure skips to Q22]
  2. Briefly describe the training(s) and how it/they met or did not meet your needs. How, if at all, has your previous science communication training informed and/or changed your science communication practices? Please limit your response to 250 words/1,250 characters (including spaces).
  3. Are there reasons that you have not previously participated in science communication training? Your answer here will help us design training that will best meet the cohort’s needs. Please limit your response to 250 words/1,250 characters (including spaces).

Section 5: Personal Impacts of Fellowship

Please limit your answers to 250 words

  1. Why do you want to participate in the SciComm Identities Project (SCIP) Fellowship? 
  2. How do you expect to apply the SCIP Fellowship experience in your work? 
  3. Describe the impact(s) you anticipate this experience will have on your research, teaching, tenure narrative development and/or review, science communication, and/or other professional pursuits.

Section 6: Demographic Info

  1. Race and ethnicity (check list with categories: Alaska Native, Native American, Indigenous or First Nation; Black or African American; East Asian; Hispanic or Latina/e/o/x; Middle Eastern or North African; Native Hawaiian or Another Pacific Islander; South Asian; White; Another Option. Applicants can select as many as apply, and the question will include space for writing in additional detail, if desired)
  2. Gender (write in)
  3. Do you have a disability and/or are you disabled? (write in)
  4. Please feel free to share any other aspects of your identity. (write in)