Design Fellowship
A 10-month fellowship for faculty to conceptualize a project that leverages their research skills and scholarship to tackle a specific social problem.
Accepting Applications
Stanford Impact Labs is accepting applications from Stanford faculty for our 2025-26 design fellowship.
Learn More and Apply
The Stanford Impact Labs Design Fellowship (SILDF) is a 10-month fellowship for faculty from across all of Stanford’s seven schools. Every year, SIL supports a cohort of up to ten faculty to conceptualize a project that leverages their research skills and scholarship to tackle a specific social problem. The fellowship includes monthly cohort workshops, one-on-one mentoring from SIL’s professional staff, and a $50,000 grant.
“This fellowship enabled us to take a step back and critically evaluate what we believe are likely to be actually effective solutions to the social problems we care about.”
The program is designed for any Stanford faculty member who wants to establish or expand an area of impact-focused research in partnership with external collaborators. We support design fellows to engage deeply with community, public sector, and policy organizations; identify how their research can best support efforts to address a social problem; and co-design policy or programmatic solutions that are relevant, effective, and sustainable.
Through cohort sessions and one-on-one mentoring, we provide technical support and guidance on how to co-create and implement projects in partnership with external organizations; how to think about the pathway from research to impact at scale; and how to build a team able to support the practical realities of partnership and impact-oriented research projects.
To learn more, please contact Sarah Hopwood at shopwood@stanford.edu.
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2024-2025 Design Fellow; Associate Professor, Doerr School of Sustainability
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2022-2023 Design Fellow; Professor, Psychiatry
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Professor, Health Policy; 2021-2022 Design Fellow
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2021-2022 Design Fellow; Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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2021-2022 Design Fellow; Associate Professor, Economics
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Assistant Professor, Political Science; Faculty Director, Inclusive Democracy and Development Lab; 2021-22 SIL Design Fellow
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Professor, Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics; 2021-2022 Design Fellow
2020-2021 Design Fellow
2020-2021 Design Fellow; Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
2020-2021 Design Fellow; Professor, Sociology
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2020-2021 Design Fellow, Assistant Professor, Management Science and Engineering
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2019-2020 Design Fellow
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2019-2020 Design Fellow; Principal Investigator , Stanford History Education Group
2019-2020 Design Fellow; Professor, Communication; Principal Investigator , Empowering Diverse Digital Citizens Lab
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Faculty Director, Food for Health Equity Lab; 2024-2025 Investment Advisory Council; 2019-2020 Design Fellow
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