OPEN Fellowships 2024-25: call for applications now open, deadline 14 October

Are you a researcher interested in spending time working closely with, or in, an organisation within the policymaking community? Or perhaps you’d like to host a policy professional within your department or faculty?

OPEN Fellowships of up to £20,000 foster sustained collaboration between research and policy partners to:

1. Enable researchers and policy professionals to share evidence and support its use in decision-making;
2. Improve researchers’ and policy professionals’ understanding of how research can inform policymaking, and develop the skills to catalyse that process; and
3. Broaden and deepen the networks of both partners.

Researchers at Oxford in any discipline can apply.

Potential partners include policy professionals employed by an organisation with an explicitly policy-relevant mission, e.g., devolved, national or supra-national assemblies; civil services; statutory bodies with responsibilities that are sectoral (e.g., regulators), regional (e.g., local councils) or subject-matter-related; international or intergovernmental organisations; and some non-academic civil society organisations.

If you would like to discuss an idea for a proposal, please do get in touch with the OPEN team. 

Deadline for applications is noon UK time 14 October.

Click here for more information and to apply