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.
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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