The Science and Innovation Fellowship at the Center on the Developing Child supports the research of Harvard University advanced doctoral students whose work is related to early childhood health, learning, and behavior. Selected fellows receive a stipend and join an active, interdisciplinary learning community for one academic year. The goal of the fellowship is to support a new generation of leaders who will drive innovation that impacts the early childhood field [1] and the lives of children facing adversity.
Science and Innovation Fellowship
Open to all Harvard Doctoral Students
Join a cohort of innovators working across disciplines to impact the early childhood field and the lives of children facing adversity.
PLEASE NOTE: The Science and Innovation Fellowship at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard will be on pause for the 2022–2023 academic year and will not be recruiting a cohort.
June 16, 2021 The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University announced today that three Harvard doctoral students have been awarded Science and Innovation Fellowships for the 2021- 2022 academic year. Each Fellow will receive a grant to support her or his independent dissertation research.
The Fellowship was created with the aim of creating a new generation of leaders who will leverage science for innovation in early childhood policy and practice settings to make research actionable. The Fellowship program fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and builds each Fellow’s capacity to design, conduct, and translate research into practices and policies that will improve outcomes for children facing adversity.
The year-long fellowship experience is designed around a cohort model that prioritizes the development of a multi-disciplinary learning community. Fellows are encouraged to share learning across their respective fields and constructively question their own thinking as well as each other’s. Fellows receive training in the IDEAS Impact Framework, a science-based innovation approach to program development and evaluation. They learn strategies for effectively framing and communicating their research to non-scientific audiences, as well as how to develop effective policy design and good leadership practices. Fellows give a capstone academic roundtable to an invited group of interdisciplinary Harvard experts. This unique opportunity allows Fellows to receive different perspectives and constructive feedback on their research.
Over the past 13 years, this fellowship program has supported 53 emerging scholars whose research is focused on a range of factors that can affect early childhood development, with a view to finding novel solutions to persistent challenges.
Learn more about the 2021-2022 Science and Innovation Fellows [2]
For More Information
- Current Fellows [2]
- Fellowship Alumni [3]
- Application Requirements [4]
- Application FAQs [5]
- Apply now [6]