Carr Center Technology and Human Rights Fellowship 2025-2026

Deadline: January 5, 2025

Purposes are open for the Carr Center Technology and Human Rights Fellowship 2025-2026. The Carr Middle’s Expertise and Human Rights Fellowship is a key initiative exploring how technological progress will form the way forward for human life and affect human rights protections.

They invite candidates to affix the Middle for a tutorial 12 months to analysis the moral and rights implications of technological developments, with a selected concentrate on synthetic intelligence. Observe that Expertise and Human Rights Fellowships usually are not funded. All fellowship phrases are one tutorial 12 months (September 1-June 30).

Analysis Theme for 2025–2026 Cohort: Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy?

The 2025–2026 Expertise & Human Rights Fellowship cohort shall be composed of students and practitioners who work on the theme of “Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy: Who Is aware of, Who Decides?” We search initiatives that hook up with the analysis applications in Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 e book, The Age Surveillance Capitalism, and Mathias Risse’s 2023 e book, Political Concept of the Digital Age. They take a particular curiosity in initiatives associated to the “unified area idea” outlined by Zuboff in her 2022 Group Concept paper, “Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy? The Demise Match of Institutional Orders and the Politics of Data in our Data Civilization.”

This fellowship theme, collectively directed by Mathias Risse and Shoshana Zuboff, invitations candidates from numerous approaches and disciplines to affiliate with the Middle for a 12 months of analysis. The fellowship 12 months can even function actions centered across the theme “Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy,” together with occasions commemorating the fifth anniversary of Zuboff’s e book.

Fellowship

• This unpaid fellowship spans one tutorial 12 months, primarily as a non-residential place. Whereas restricted shared workplace area could also be provided for residents, occasional entry to shared workplace amenities is feasible for these visiting the Cambridge/Boston space.
• Fellows are required to attend Cambridge, MA as soon as per semester to alternate concepts, current their work to the Carr Middle and the broader Kennedy Faculty group, and take part in related shows, trainings, or workshops. Restricted journey subsidies could also be supplied for these in want.

Eligibility

• Fellows may be post-docs, students, lecturers on sabbatical, human rights defenders, senior leaders in worldwide organizations, or heads of human rights organizations. Fellow initiatives should align carefully with the analysis and programming priorities of the Middle. 
• They welcome each rising and established students and practitioners whose analysis and follow are aligned with the Middle’s priorities. Fellows can concentrate on analysis and writing, auditing courses, assembly school and different consultants, main examine teams for college kids, and taking part in different studying alternatives on the Harvard Kennedy Faculty. 

Utility

The next objects ought to be included in your software:

• Resume/CV 
• Challenge proposal that outlines the background or context, the character of the issue, the time horizon for the issue, the proposed nature of your analysis venture or intervention (together with the way it suits with the Carr Middle’s work), the anticipated affect, and your {qualifications} (as much as 3 pages) 
• Govt abstract of proposal (as much as 200 phrases) 
• The contact info for 2 references who can remark in your skill to finish the proposed analysis. These people could also be contacted by the Carr Middle and needn’t submit documentation except requested.
• Related writing pattern (as much as 5 pages) 
• A listing of prior publications (with hyperlinks or as much as 3 attachments) 

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