OPEN Fellowships 2024-25: call for applications now open, deadline 14 October
OPEN Fellowships offer up to £20,000 to foster sustained collaboration between research and policy partners.
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:
- Enable researchers and policy professionals to share evidence and support its use in decision-making;
- Improve researchers’ and policy professionals’ understanding of how research can inform policymaking, and develop the skills to catalyse that process; and
- 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
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