Burning Questions Fellowship Awards 2020
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Last Updated On : 15-04-2020 Posted By : Rajnika
The Burning Questions Initiative (BQI) of Tiny Bean Fund is providing Burning Questions Fellowship Awards 2020 for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers around the world. The fellowship aims at addressing the negative impacts of global industrial food animal production especially in low and middle-income countries. Young researchers, early career professionals and research teams will get fellowship benefits, research facilities, training and mentorship to undertake independent projects for 4 months under this program.
Burning Questions Fellowship Awards 2020
DeadlineClosed Eligibility Applicants must follow the below-given eligibility criteria to apply for this fellowship. They must be:-
- PhD degree holder or enrolled for PhD at a recognized academic institution, OR
- Independent scholars and researchers from large prominent research organizations, OR
- Early career as well as senior academics working towards a similar cause, OR
- A team of two to four researchers that has at least one person with a PhD/doctoral degree
- Willing to conduct progressive research in feasible solutions for tackling the negative impacts of global industrial food animal production
Benefits The fellowship program provides following benefits to selected fellows:-
Category
Eligibility
Award detail
Category 1:
Single individual enrolled in a PhD/doctoral university program
USD 15,000
Category 2
Single selected fellow with a PhD/doctoral degree
USD 20,000
Category 3
Team of researchers (2-4 members)
USD 25,000
Documents Following documents are required to apply for this fellowship:-
- Personal information and short curriculum vitae (CV)
- Guidance Memo stating complete project guidelines and research background of proposed solutions
- Statement of Purpose (Personal Statement)
- These succinct documents in plain language (“Guidance Memos”) are made available to them within months of their completion
- Guidance Memos are documents prepared specifically to assist front-line persons who are the end-users, written from the perspectives of academics
How can you apply? To apply for this fellowship, applicants should follow the below-mentioned steps:-
Step 1: Visit the applications instructions manual and read the complete application instructions.
Step 2: Prepare an ‘Applicant’s general information’ statement.
Step 3: Prepare ‘Guidance memos’ in the prescribed format.
Step 4: Also prepare a personal statement as suggested in instructions.
Step 5: Submit all these documents together via email to min@tinybeamfund.org.
Important Dates
Starting Date : 09th March 2020
Application Deadline : 11th May 2020
Selection Criteria
The fellowship entries will be judged on the following four criteria:-
- The relevance of the applicant’s choice of issues and solutions
- Effectiveness of Guidance memo in helping industrial and professional stakeholders of the dedicated field
- The coherence of applicant’s research plan with guidance memos
- Quality of application
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Terms and Conditions
- The fellowship is awarded twice every year. The first round is Spring/Summer and the second is Fall/Winter.
- A total of 3 awards are available for each round.
- The topics covered in the Guidance Memo must be relevant to the 'burning questions'.
- The applicants are also required to create an annotated bibliography of 3 to 15 publications having relevance with the content of Guidance Memo.
- Also, the applicants need to write a short personal narrative on the experience of working on the Guidance Memo.
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Contact Details
Email: min@tinybeamfund.org
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