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.
Call for Applications: 2023-2024 Design Fellowship
Applications are now open for the 2023-2024 Stanford Impact Labs Design Fellowship. Applications are due June 6.
Apply Here
The Stanford Impact Labs Design Fellowship (SILDF) is a 10-month fellowship for faculty from across all of Stanford’s seven schools. Every year we work with 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 fellowship is designed for any 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.
“The biggest accomplishment from the fellowship was being able to define and articulate my social problem and the path to impact.”
To learn more about the Design Fellowship, please contact Sarah Hopwood (shopwood@stanford.edu).
2022-2023 Cohort

2022-2023 Design Fellow; Associate Professor, Doerr School of Sustainability

2022-2023 Design Fellow

2022-2023 Design Fellow

2022-2023 Design Fellow

2022-2023 Design Fellow; Professor, Engineering

2022-2023 Design Fellow

2022-2023 Design Fellow; Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education

2022-2023 Design Fellow

2022-2023 Design Fellow
2021-2022 Cohort

2021-2022 Design Fellow; Assistant Professor, Economics

2021-2022 Design Fellow; Professor, Health Policy

2021-2022 Design Fellow

2021-2022 Design Fellow; Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences , Stanford School of Medicine

2021-2022 Design Fellow; Associate Professor, History

2021-2022 Design Fellow; Faculty Advisory Board Member; Associate Professor, Economics

2021-2022 Design Fellow; Assistant Professor, Economics

2021-2022 Design Fellow; Assistant Professor, Political Science; Lab Director , Inclusive Democracy and Development Lab

2021-2022 Design Fellow; Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education

2021-2022 Design Fellow; Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education

2021-2022 Design Fellow; Professor , Stanford School of Medicine
2020-2021 Cohort

2020-2021 Design Fellow

2020-2021 Design Fellow; Faculty Advisory Board Member; Assistant Professor, Engineering

2020-2021 Design Fellow; Faculty Advisory Board Member; Professor, Sociology

2020-2021 Design Fellow; Professor, Engineering

2020-2021 Design Fellow, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law

2020-2021 Design Fellow; Assistant Professor, Economics

2020-2021 Design Fellow; Assistant Professor, Engineering , Stanford Impact Lab on Equitable Access to Education

2020-2021 Design Fellow; Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education

2020-2021 Design Fellow; Professor, School of Medicine
2019-2020 Cohort

2019-2020 Design Fellow

2019-2020 Design Fellow

2019-2020 Design Fellow

2019-2020 Design Fellow, Faculty Advisory Board Member

2019-2020 Design Fellow; Assistant Professor, School of Medicine , Food for Health Equity Lab

2019-2020 Design Fellow; Harry and Norman Chandler Professor, Communication , Empowering Diverse Digital Citizens Lab

2019-2020 Design Fellow; Assistant Professor, Sociology , Changing Cities Research Lab

2019-2020 Design Fellow

2019-2020 Design Fellow