The Connected Learning Lab (CLL) at the University of California, Irvine, invites applications from emerging scholars for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to engage in research-practice partnerships and youth participatory action research aimed at expanding career opportunity for marginalized youth in the U.S.

Link to application form and more info: https://connectedlearning.news/PostdocFellowDLN 

We are seeking scholars with deep connections and background with marginalized communities, committed to social justice, with research interests in career equity. The two-year fellowship offers an award of $70,000 per year for salary and benefits, with additional support for research and travel expenses, and professional development offered by the CLL in youth participatory action research and socially engaged scholarship. The fellowship involves matchmaking with mentors, host institutions, and organizations, and selected fellows will need to be located near their host institution and/or partner organizations.

This fellowship offers a unique opportunity to be part of shaping a new network of researchers and practitioners in its inaugural and startup years. We invite scholars who embrace a spirit of innovation, experimentation, and collaboration and are committed to research in the service of educational practice and equity.

This fellowship program is part of a broader set of initiatives centered on how identity, culture, and social relationships drive career gaps and opportunities for youth from economically and racially marginalized communities. We look in particular at how to best tap the assets, identities, culture, and communities of marginalized youth in expanding career opportunity.

Background information

Anchor funding for the fellowships is provided by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Equitable Futures project. The program is administered by the CLL, a research institute at the University of California, Irvine, dedicated to studying and mobilizing new learning approaches in equitable, innovative and learner-centered ways. The BMGF and CLL will be partnering with a broader network of funders, universities, and organizations in support of this fellowship.