Selected fellows will participate in an Initial workshop to share research plans and gain from the collective experience closer to December 2015. A jury of 5 selection committee members will mentor fellows in their research journey. Fellows will attend an interim workshop, a post data collection session and Annual sharing workshop at the closure of their fellowship. CRY will sponsor travel, boarding and lodging for all these meetings. Short-listed applicants will have opportunity to share their ideas and future plans, in conversation with members of the CRY assessment team.
Possible Focus Areas
Researchers are welcome to expand and interpret themes, based on their life experiences and vision
- Explorations of the relationships of the child with other children, with the state, community and the family
- Evidences of the assertion or rejection of the role of children in decision making arenas, such as home, school, work and play spaces and governing institutions
- Gather evidence on relationships between ethnicity, inequality and conflict as witnessed and/or experienced by children
- Is the `best interest principle’, a value, a constitutional right, an interpretative advocacy instrument or a rule of law?
Grant Sizes: : Up-to 5 fellowships ranging from Rs.50, 000 to Rs.1 lakh will be awarded. Fellows are free to continue their primary occupation. Proposals above one lakh will not be reviewed. The fellowship grant will be released in installments against specific deliverables.
Dissemination:Research findings will be made available to activists, academics, development practitioners and interested general public through multiple fora, including language translations to influence the course of the debate on child rights and the best interest principle.
Ownership: While fellows will retain authorship of the final research report and content, all information and insights gathered will be available to the widest group of people, free of cost. Fellows are free to publish the insights of their research efforts, with appropriate acknowledgement to the National Child Rights Research Fellowship and CRY. Fellows
will also inform CRY about publication of their work.
