Deadline: 12-Jul-21
The Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) is delighted to launch the call for applications for the Fellowship Programme to begin in September 2021.
SSHAP is looking for future leaders in social science to be able to apply their knowledge in humanitarian emergencies in locally relevant ways. At its core, SSHAP’s vision is to encourage emergency responses that are effective, adaptive, contextually informed and based on social and interdisciplinary science and evidence.
The fellows will play a vital role in realising SSHAP’s vision. Throughout the duration of the fellowship, the programme will pair social scientists with practitioners in the same region to facilitate and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange.
The fellows will also have the benefit of working closely with leading thinkers and practitioners from within the SSHAP partnership between the Institute of Development Studies, Anthrologica and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The fellowship will include:
- 1:1 mentoring with a SSHAP expert
- Tailored professional training programme (which may include context analysis, communications skills, stakeholder mapping, vulnerability assessments)
- Opportunities to learn from peers and share experiences
- Platform to shape discourse and dialogue
- Support in developing an operational briefing to be published and promoted via SSHAP channels
Funding Information
- Each fellow will receive an honorarium of £2000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a national of and currently living in a lower- or middle-income country.
- Be either:
- a social scientist with research experience or
- a public health or humanitarian response practitioner in a position to influence design and/or rollout of humanitarian activities.
- Social scientist: you are a social scientist with a deep understanding of your country’s social and political context. You are well networked; you are in touch and have collaborated with other social scientists in your geographical region. You have the knowledge to map the social science capacity of your region, as you know who the key players are. With the skills developed in this fellowship you will be able to make your social science research useful for humanitarian action.
- Humanitarian practitioner: you are an experienced humanitarian practitioner (working for a local or international NGO, UN Agency, or other humanitarian agency) and you are responsible (or have been) for planning humanitarian activities or carrying out surveys and other forms of research to influence activities. You are well networked: you are part of regional humanitarian networks and you know who the key players in your geographical region are. With the skills developed in this fellowship you will learn how to best use social science to design activities and research more effectively.
For more information, visit https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/blogs-and-news/apply-now-for-the-next-sshap-fellowship/