Deadline: February 9, 2025
Applications are open for the Schwartz Reisman Institute Graduate Fellowships 2025. The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI) supports and integrates world-class research across sectors and disciplines to deepen the understanding of advanced technologies, law, institutions, regulatory structures, and social values. The multifaceted research program fosters interdisciplinary ideas, insights, and understanding of how technology affects society and individuals.
The integrative research they conduct rethinks role in society, the contemporary needs of human communities, and the systems that govern them. They are investigating how best to align technology with human values and deploy it responsibly. In doing so they seek to support existing fields of inquiry as well as to identify and nurture new research agendas by introducing researchers to the concepts and framing used by different disciplines to analyze problems.
Their mission is to deepen their knowledge of advanced technologies, societies, and what it means to be human by actively integrating research across traditional boundaries and building human-centered solutions that really make a difference.
Fellowship
- The Graduate Fellows program will provide $7,500 over one year in support for up to 15 remarkable scholars at the University of Toronto.
Eligibility
- Fellows will be primarily PhD candidates at University of Toronto; however exceptional masters candidates are eligible to apply.
- They encourage applications from scholars investigating issues at the intersection of advanced technologies and society, as well as those with an emerging interest in these areas.
- Applicants who have not previously received an SRI fellowship will be given priority.
Evaluation Criteria
SRI Graduate Fellows will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
- Quality of research proposal.
- Alignment with research goals and priorities.
- Potential impact as an emerging scholar.
- Ability to engage with a multidisciplinary research community.
- Diversity of perspective.
Application
To be considered, you must fill out the online application form, which includes the following:
- A research statement (PDF) with responses to the following questions:
- Describe the area of research you are pursuing (approx. 750 words).
- Research goals and priorities, highlighting specific areas of interest you would like to explore as part of the Institute (approx. 500 words).
- Describe your interest in, and how you would approach, working with a multi-disciplinary research community (approx. 500 words). If applicable, how did a specific experience inform your interests? Do you have any experience with leading interdisciplinary and/or multidisciplinary research activities? Why is this a good time in your graduate program to engage with SRI?
- Optional: Describe how your proposed project and scholarship engages with principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (approx. 500 words).
- A copy of your curriculum vitae (PDF).
- A copy of your transcript (PDF).
- Up to three examples of your writing and research (PDF; publications preferred).
- A letter of reference from a referee describing your potential as a scholar (max. 300 words). Your referee must send this letter directly to [email protected] before the application deadline.
For more information, visit Schwartz Reisman Institute Graduate Fellowships.
