No application fee. No retreat cost. A week of intensive poetry workshops at a university campus in Pennsylvania with some of the most respected voices in contemporary Black poetry. The Cave Canem Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2027 Fellowship. The deadline is 6 October 2026. The retreat runs from 6 to 13 June … Read more

Only 1 percent. That is the acceptance rate for the UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship in recent years. Out of every hundred doctoral researchers who apply, 99 do not make it. That number is not here to discourage anyone. It is here because understanding why most applications fail is the most useful thing a prospective applicant … Read more

Multiple sclerosis affects more than 2.8 million people worldwide. The science behind it remains one of the most active research frontiers in neurology. ECTRIMS has opened applications for its 2027 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme. The fellowship funds one or two years of mentored research training at a European laboratory or clinic. It is open to … Read more

Some fellowships fund research. Some fund tuition. This one funds long term documentary work that changes how people see the natural world. Vital Impacts has opened its 2027 Environmental Photography Fellowships and Mentorships to photographers worldwide. Seven funded awards total $50000 across the program. Ten mentorship places sit alongside them. For the first time, one … Read more

Most people who care about climate change already know the science. Temperatures are rising. Emissions matter. Tipping points exist. The information is everywhere. The gap between awareness and action stays wide. GaiaLink’s Climate Communication Fellowship starts from a different diagnosis. The problem is not missing information. The problem is that climate communication fails to reach … Read more

Some careers quietly shape an entire field. Decades of research that others build on. Doctoral students who go on to lead their own departments. Policy work that changed education systems. Teaching that continues to influence how scholars think. The Comparative and International Education Society recognizes exactly that kind of career through the CIES Honorary Fellows … Read more

The biggest problem in AI right now is not capability. It is measurement. No reliable method exists to assess whether an AI model can perform valuable professional work in law, finance, accounting, scientific research or consulting. Academic benchmarks measure what is easy to test. They do not measure what matters in practice. Mercor aims to … Read more

The African Hub on AI Safety, Peace and Security under the Artificial Intelligence for Development Programme is offering a Master’s Fellowship in AI Governance and Harm Mapping. The AI Governance Master’s Fellowship supports an emerging African researcher to study how artificial intelligence related harms are experienced across African contexts and to identify governance gaps that … Read more

Villa I Tatti the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies invites applications for the Wallace Fellowship. The residential fellowship supports postdoctoral scholars who study how the Italian Renaissance has been understood, interpreted and transformed in the modern era especially from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Up to four fellowships are awarded each year. … Read more