SciComm Identities Project (SCIP) Fellowship 2025 (Fully-funded)

The SCIP Fellowship is a one-year professional development opportunity for pre-tenure faculty at U.S. institutions who identify as underrepresented racial or ethnic minorities. The Fellowship will have a different thematic focus in each of its three one-year cohorts. Each of these foci relates, broadly, to climate change. SCIP Fellows will gain science communication expertise and practice and build their professional networks in ways that may support new collaborations and research insights. The SciComm Identities Project (SCIP) aims to shift the paradigm of science communication training and create a more representative suite of academic science communicators. The SCIP fellowship is designed to test a training curriculum based on intercultural communication theories. They hope SCIP will elevate science communication activities as a valued aspect of academics’ institutional contributions. The aim for this project to increase representation of underrepresented minority scientists and engineers as science communicators and as public intellectuals in environmental news coverage to foster culturally relevant conservations about environmental issues.

Benefits of SciComm Identities Project

Fellows will receive financial and other support as follows:

• A $5,000 honorarium as an acknowledgement of the required time commitment.
• For each in-person training, reimbursement for roundtrip travel, 5 nights’ lodging, roundtrip ground transportation from local airports, and per diem for any meals not provided as part of the training. Local ground transportation will be provided during the workshops.
• An audio recorder for use in podcast development.

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Eligibility

Open to researchers who study any aspect of natural science, social science, or engineering related to the theme of that year’s cohort. The SCIP Fellowship is designed for people who:

• Self-identify as Black or African American, Indigenous or Native American, Hispanic or Latino/a/x/e, Asian or Asian American, or Middle Eastern or North African;
• Are tenure-track assistant professors at a U.S. academic institution of higher education;
• Study anything related to the year’s cohort theme. The 2025 cohort will focus on the intersections of climate change with agriculture, aquaculture, and food security.

Fellows are expected to be available and participate in all of the following workshops, unless marked optional:

• January in-person workshop – 1/5/25-1/10/25 (Tentative dates; subject to change)
• February virtual office hours (optional) – 2/12/25
• March virtual workshop – 3/12/25
• April virtual office hours (optional) – 4/9/25
• May virtual workshop – 5/14/25
• June virtual office hours (optional) – 6/11/25
• July in-person workshop – 7/13/25-7/18/25
• August virtual office hours (optional) – 8/13/25
• September virtual workshop – 9/10/25
• October virtual office hours (optional) -10/8/25
• November virtual workshop – 11/12/25
• December closing virtual meeting – 12/10/25

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