These questions are provided for you to familiarize yourself with the application and prepare your responses ahead of time.

Fellowship Eligibility:

The SciComm Identities Project (SCIP) Fellowship is open to researchers who study any aspect of natural science, social science, or engineering related to the theme of that year’s cohort.

Eligible applicants must:

  • Self-identify as Black or African American, Indigenous or Native American, Hispanic or Latina/e/o/x, Asian or Asian American, Middle Eastern or North African
  • Be tenure-track assistant professors at a U.S. academic institution of higher education
  • Study anything related to climate change, generally, and the year’s cohort theme, specifically. The 2024 cohort will focus on research that addresses issues related to water and climate change.

Application Questions:

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)