Apply Now: 2022 – 2023 Stanford Impact Labs Design Fellowship
Applications are open for the 2022-2023 Stanford Impact Labs Design Fellowship. Roughly ten faculty members from across the university will be selected to receive $50,000 and a year of mentoring and training to generate new research, ideas, and practical solutions for pressing social problems. Both junior faculty and tenured professors participate.
The Stanford Impact Labs Design Fellowship is the first in our series of staged and sequenced investments to create more impact labs that bring leaders in government, business, nonprofits, and the university together to tackle concrete social problems with new evidence and practical solutions.
The one-year, $50,000 investment supports training and mentoring for faculty who want to conceptualize new impact labs. They participate in a year-long program alongside ten or so other junior and tenured faculty from across the university. Fellows learn from Stanford Impact Labs' professional staff, outside experts that join the workshops, and from each other. Funding often pays for a portion of a research assistant’s time, and allows teams to conceptualize an area of problem-focused research, build partnerships with external collaborators, and plan to launch impact labs.
To date, we've supported three cohorts of design fellows. Faculty names, departments, and research topics follow in the chart below. Further details are included in the investments section of our website.
You can read more about the experience faculty have had moving science towards public impact and what new fellows can expect in the program. Ramesh Johari, from Stanford's Department of Management Science and Engineering, shares more about his experience in the program. He explored how telehealth and new technologies can improve diabetes care and make it accessible for more patients--regardless of race or wealth. Johari says, "What really surprised me was how quickly I was able to start engaging with the problem I care about. The fellowship structures your thinking so you realize as quickly as possible that you don’t have to be stuck on the how do I get started question."
We'll host the next information sessions on Zoom on April 27. Applications are due June 6, 2022 and will be reviewed by a panel of Stanford Impact Labs staff, faculty, and external practitioners with expertise and experience in the social issues proposed.
Please read the full application, share with anyone you think might be interested, and apply! View the table here.
