[Sehefac] Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (SEEKCommons) Fellowships for grads and early career

[Dana Simmons]

Hello SEHE affiliates.
Friend of SEHE Kyle Harp Rushing (UCR PhD) sent us the announcement below
for 9 fellowships for grad and early career scholars working on
socio-environmental issues. See below. Kyle offered to talk to students
interested in the program; just let me know and I'll put you in touch. Note
that the due date is coming up soon (December 15).
The application is here: https://seekcommons.org/fellowship-application.html

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 an initiative to bring graduate students and
early-career researchers to socio-environmental research with common
technologies. Our 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.
We are seeking 9 fellows for the 2025 SEEKCommons Fellowship. More details
below:

Application Form Open: Nov. 7–Dec. 15, 2024
Successful Fellows notified: Jan. 31, 2025
Fellowship begins: Feb. 10, 2025
Fellowship ends: Nov. 10, 2025
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 commercialization
of the sciences.

Partnering Organizations
Applicants can present a project to collaborate with one of our partnering
organizations:
Tor Project
Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA)
Please follow the links above to learn more about the research questions
that our partners would like to respond with the help of SEEKCommons
Fellows.

Eligibility Requirements
In order to be eligible for this 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
organization;
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.
Please review our SEEKCommons Fellowship FAQ for additional eligibility
information.

Fellows’ Responsibilities
To successfully participate in the fellowship program, fellows will be
expected to be actively involved in cohort activities, including:

Participation in once-monthly virtual cohort meetings (total of 9);
Participation in, at least, 7 virtual workshops during the duration of the
fellowship, with the option to join additional workshops;
Engagement with mentors during the process of design, implementation, and
completion of the proposed project;
Participation in annual in-person SEEKCommons Network convening (travel
funding provided).
Work with SEEKcommons team and network members to curate content for the
Resource Hub;
Document research work through public, multimedia formats (i.e. blogs,
video, social media) so the benefits of the fellowship are shared publicly
and widely;
Preparation of a final research product (i.e. peer-reviewed publication,
software package, hardware project, white paper, website, data portal,
conference poster/presentation). Post-docs will be required to pursue, at
least, one peer-reviewed publication;
Participation in entry and exit surveys conducted by the SEEKcommons team.
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)
Applications due by Dec. 15, 2024

SEEKCommons is a collaboration between partners at: University of Notre
Dame, University of California Davis, University of Michigan, University of
Virginia, and the HDF Group. The project is made possible by a National
Science Foundation FAIROS RCN grant (Award 2226425). This award was jointly
supported by the NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic
Sciences and the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure.

-- 
Dana Simmons
Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment and
Health Equity
Cooperating Faculty, Department of History
University of California, Riverside
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