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.

All Fellowship and Grants Programs:

African Peacebuilding Network Fellowships

The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) individual and working group fellowships support the local innovation of new knowledge with the potential to illuminate and support peacebuilding initiatives on and around the African continent.
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Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowships

The Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowships support post-doctoral fellows who are pursuing policy-relevant causal research designed to innovate and evaluate cost-effective and scalable policy solutions that advance the efficacy and equity of criminal justice practices. Fellows receive salaries of $120,000 with benefits and annual salary increases for up to three years.
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Arts Research in Communities Fellowships

The Arts Research in Communities fellowships support embedded ethnographic research in partnership with community arts organizations, enabling new insights about how to support thriving arts ecosystems.
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Data Fluencies

The Data Fluencies Project provides research grants to Ph.D. students actively enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States and Canada to explore data-centric practices that advance socially beneficial outcomes.
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Inter-American Foundation Research Fellowships

The Inter-American Foundation Research Fellowships support rigorous, field-based, and actionable research on the economic and social impacts of community-led development programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Just Tech Fellowships

The Just Tech fellowships support diverse cohorts of researchers and practitioners as they imagine and build technological futures that advance human well-being.
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The Mercury Project

The Mercury Project is a $25M funding consortium supporting evaluations of interventions designed to cost-effectively build vaccination demand around the world, supporting over 100 social and behavioral scientists and practitioners working in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States.
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Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowships

The Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa fellowships support doctoral students in Africa as they explore, develop, and evaluate innovative solutions to local challenges.
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Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Program

The Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal (RSDR) Program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) aims to bring knowledge of the place of religion and spirituality into scholarly and public conversations about renewing democracy in the United States and around the world.
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Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network Grants

The Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network (SSMN) serves the over 1,800 alumni of the Sloan Scholar graduate fellowship programs. To support scholars’ professional success after graduation, the SSMN provides includes a strategic mix of workshops, grants, and networking and mentoring opportunities, both in person and virtually.
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Women in Economics and Mathematics Research Consortium

The Women in Economics and Mathematics Research Consortium, a partnership with the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP), supports evaluations of interventions designed to cost-effectively grow the talent pipeline in economics and mathematics.
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