The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics – also known as the Albert Einstein Institute – is inviting experienced science journalists to apply for residencies at the Potsdam, Germany location. The residencies are open to journalists in any medium, freelance or in-house, and go for up to two months. “The goal is to strengthen the communication between journalists and scientists and to offer journalists the opportunity to learn more about the institute’s research areas.” The Institute will provide office space, a 3,500 Euro/month stipend, and will assist with travel costs if necessary. More details can be found here, applications are due June 11, 2018.
Category: Fellowships
The Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, in partnership with the Mayo Clinic, offers a one-week medical journalism fellowship “comprised of a week of interactive discussions, hands-on learning and experiential activities designed to bolster the knowledge and skills that top professional journalists need to cover medicine”. There are 15 all-expenses-paid fellowships available to experienced medical journalists from around the world, to attend from May 13-18, 2018. Applications close soon, on 1 April 2018. Details are available here.
Applications for the nine-month fellowship program with the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT are due by February 28, 2018. The fellowships are offered to just ten science journalists each year from around the world, and enable participants to attend field trips, seminars and training sessions, develop a course of study, and produce a research project while residing in the Boston/Cambridge area from August-May. For more information, visit the fellowships application site, and you can also read more about applying for a fellowship in this article.
Applications are now open for the Copyright Agency Limited Cultural Fund’s annual grants for Australian writers, publishers and artists.
The IGNITE grants provide up to $5000 to an individual to enable them to “to acquire knowledge, to undertake mentorships, internships, residencies, leadership opportunities, and strategic promotional opportunities.” In 2017, I was fortunate enough to receive one of these grants, which supported me to attend the World Federation of Science Journalists conference in San Francisco (which you can read about here), so I would strongly encourage science writers to consider applying. Applications close 20 April 2018.
The CREATE grants, which offer $10,000, $15,000 or $20,000, are aimed at mid-career or established writers, and are intended to encourage the creation or development of new work. Applications close 18 June 2018.
The Cultural Fund also offers fellowships for authors – including one for non-fiction writing – to the tune of $80,000. Applications close 24 September 2018.
The Vermont Law School’s Environmental Law Center is offering fellowships to full-time online, print and broadcast journalists (including freelance) who report on the environment to attend a two-week course at the facility in June/July this year.
The course enables attendees to “learn from experienced litigators who have won major cases and from policy experts in climate change, energy and other key legal areas. After class, you can meet for on- or off-the-record conversations with these thought-provoking experts.” The fellowships, which appear to be open to international candidates, include a US$1,250 stipend, free housing, free books, and a tuition waiver. Applications for the 2018 program close on March 5. Details are available here.
The Marine Biological Laboratory at the University of Chicago is inviting applications for its Science Journalism Program fellowships for science, health and environmental journalists.
The environmental hands-on research program involves a ten-day program of “field and laboratory science immersion at the MBL in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, a world center for marine, biomedical, and environmental science, and at an environmental field research site on Cape Cod.”
The biomedical hands-on research program offers “exposure to the fundamental techniques and concepts of cell and molecular biology that provide the basic elements underlying many approaches to modern-day biomedical research” at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Four individuals from each group will also be selected to spend four days at the University of Chicago and attend the Science Innovation Summit there. The fellowships cover travel, room and board, lab fees and all activities associated with the program. Applications close 1 March 2018, and details can be found here.
The World Federation of Science Journalists is offering five international scholarships for journalists to attend the Kavli Prize week in Oslo (1-6 September, 2018). The Kavli Prize has been awarded every two years since 2008 in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. The prize consists of 1 million US dollars in each field, and a gold medal presented by the King of Norway.
The winners of the journalism scholarships will get the opportunity to interview the laureates and have access to all the events, including the award ceremony and the banquet. The scholarships cover travel, registration fees and accommodation, with support from The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, The Kavli Foundation and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. Entries close Monday 15 January, and application details are available here.
Applications are open for the University of Rhode Island’s Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting’s annual Science Immersion Workshop for journalists. The fellowships provide tuition, room, board and travel support to ten journalists, enabling them to experience “hands-on experience and expertise from leading scientists and policymakers who are working to project the impacts of climate change, identifying adaptation measures, and investigating the most effective ways to communicate these challenges.” This year’s workshop runs from June 10-15, 2018. Applications close February 12, 2018, details are here.
The Metcalfe Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting is accepting applications for its 20th Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists, June 10-15, 2018. There are ten positions available, and it’s open to journalists from around the world. Applications close February 12, 2018.
“Do you have the knowledge and context to bring your news audience accurate, science-based stories about hurricanes, hazardous drought conditions, coastal storms, flooding and other extreme impacts caused by climate change? Would you like the tools, resources and understanding to investigate and break stories on important environmental issues?”
For more information and applications, visit the site.