Applications Now Open for the 2025 SEEKCommons Fellowship

The Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (SEEKCommons) Fellowship is an initiative to bring graduate students and early-career researchers to socio-environmental research with common technologies. The SEEKCommons project is dedicated to building pathways for horizontal collaborations across Science and Technology Studies (STS), Open Science (OS), and socio-environmental researchers and community organizers.

The SEEKCommons Fellowship program is designed to:

• Encourage new integrative practices involving socio-environmental and climate action research with OS practices; and
• Provide a space for fellows and network members to collaborate on common research tools, issues, and challenges.

For 2025, the program is seeking nine fellows who are currently enrolled in a graduate program, hold a postdoctoral appointment, or are a professional practitioner working in a community-based organization and who demonstrate clear alignment with the goals and objectives of the SEEKCommons project. The program gives priority to applicants working on:

• Open technologies for data management, formats, standards, protection, and sharing strategies;
• Creating/adapting tools or workflows to support the reuse of open research technologies;
• FAIR Implementation Profiles for socio-environmental research for public benefit with orientation of CARE principles;
• Equity, collaboration, and justice in socio-environmental studies;
• STS research on responses to OS institutional mandates, data protection and sharing practices, and anti-commoning practices with the commercialization of the sciences.

The application process is open from November 7 - December 15, 2024, with successful fellows being notified by the end of January, 2025. For complete information about the program and to apply, see the Fellowship Application.