Fellowship and Grants Administration:
Supporting necessary knowledge

Since 1923, the SSRC has awarded more than twenty thousand fellowships and grants to researchers around the globe. Council fellowship and grants programs are strategic—they target specific problems, promote individual and institutional change, and expand networks.

The Social Science Research Council has an extensive history of working with funding partners to design and administer fellowship and research grant programs that foster the production of new and relevant knowledge. We craft fellowship goals, selection criteria, and calls for proposals; design publicity and marketing materials; recruit applications from large domestic and international talent pools; secure leading experts to serve on peer review panels; convene grantees to share findings and implementation insights; engage fellow cohorts in mentoring, learning, and community-building activities and provide efficient and responsive application processing, peer review management, award administration, and outcome reporting.