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Abe Fellowship: International multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern

Overview

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) announce the annual Abe Fellowship Program competition. Funding for the Abe Fellowship Program is provided by CGP.

The Abe Fellowship is designed to promote international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. Applications are welcome from scholars and nonacademic research professionals. The aims of the program are to foster high quality research in the social sciences and related disciplines, to build new collaborative networks of researchers around four thematic foci of the program, to bring new data and new data resources to the attention of those researchers, and to obtain from them a commitment to a comparative or transnational line of inquiry.

The Abe Fellowship Research Agenda

Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals for research in the social sciences and related disciplines relevant to any one or any combination of the four subjects below. The themes are:

• Threats to Personal, Societal, and International Security

Especially welcome topics include food, water, and energy insecurity; pandemics; climate change; disaster preparedness, prevention, and recovery; and conflict, terrorism, and cyber security.

• Growth and Sustainable Development

Especially welcome topics include global financial stability, trade imbalances and agreements, adjustment to globalization, climate change and adaptation, and poverty and inequality.

• Social, Scientific, and Cultural Trends and Transformations

Especially welcome topics include aging and other demographic change, benefits and dangers of reproductive genetics, gender and social exclusion, expansion of STEM education among women and under-represented populations, migration, rural depopulation and urbanization, impacts of automation on jobs, poverty and inequality, and community resilience.

• Governance, Empowerment, and Participation

Especially welcome topics include challenges to democratic institutions, participatory governance, human rights, the changing role of NGO/NPOs, the rise of new media, and government roles in fostering innovation.

Eligibility

1. This competition is open to all national researchers who can demonstrate strong and serious long-term affiliations with research communities in Japan or the United States.
2. Candidates must hold a PhD or the terminal degree in their field, or have an equivalent level of professional experience.
3. Prior language training is not a prerequisite for this fellowship. However, if the research project requires language ability, the applicant should provide evidence of adequate proficiency to complete project.
4. Projects proposing to address key policy issues or seeking to develop a concrete policy proposal must reflect nonpartisan positions.
5. Past recipients of the Abe Fellowship are ineligible. You may hold only one fellowship sponsored by the Japan Foundation, which includes the Abe Fellowship, during any one Japanese fiscal year. Fellowship awards are contingent upon receipt of funding from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.

Fellowship Terms

1. Terms of the fellowship are flexible and are designed to meet the needs of researchers at different stages in their careers. The program provides Abe Fellows with a minimum of 3 and maximum of 12 months of full-time support over a 24-month period. Fellowship tenure must begin between April 1 and December 31 of a given year. Fellowship tenure need not be continuous, but must be concluded within 24 months of initial activation of the fellowship.

2. Abe Fellows will be expected to affiliate with an American or Japanese institution appropriate to their research. Fellowship funds may also be spent on additional residence and fieldwork in third countries as appropriate to individual projects.
3. Fellows will be required to attend specific Abe Fellowship Program events.

Applications

The application deadline is September 1 annually. Applications must be submitted online. For further information, please contact the program directly at abe@ssrc.org.

In the US

Abe Fellowship Program

Social Science Research Council

One Pierrepont Plaza, 15th Floor

Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA

Email: abe@ssrc.org

Tel: 212-377-2700 / Fax: 212 377-2727

In Japan

Abe Fellowship Program

SSRC Tokyo Office

c/o Japan Foundation

Center for Global Partnership

4-4-1 Yotsuya

shinjuku-ku

Tokyo 160-0004, Japan

Email: ssrcABE@gol.com

Tel: 3-5369-6085 / Fax: 3-5369-6142

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