Fully-funded program: Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity 2023-24, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Deadline for applications: January 12, 2023
Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity is committed, as a programme, to drawing on and bringing together the insights of academic research, innovative social change strategies, and our Fellows’ own broad and rich expertise.
Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity, housed at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute, is an innovative fully-funded fellowship that brings together policy-makers, activists, practitioners, artists, and movement-builders from around the world to explore and challenge the root causes of inequality.
Our fellowship is a home for thinkers, doers and change-makers whose insights help to shape and inform the International Inequalities Institute’s research. It is a transformative community that is working toward just and equitable alternatives to today’s deeply unjust and unequal world.
There are two tracks in our fellowship: Residential and Non-Residential. Members of the Residential track undertake the MSc in Inequalities and Social Science at LSE during their active fellowship year.
The Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme is supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies via a £64 million, 20-year grant aimed at building a catalytic community of 400 fellows. It is one of seven Atlantic Fellowships worldwide working to create a global community to advance fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies.
Applications for the 2023-24 programme are now open and will close on Thursday 12 January 2023. Start your application.
Applications are now open for the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme for social change leaders who are working to tackle inequality.
Policymakers, researchers, practitioners, activists, journalists and artists from around the world are invited to apply to the 2023-24 Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Applications are open until 12 January 2023 for the innovative, inequalities-focused fellowship, which is housed at the LSE International Inequalities Institute.
Currently recruiting for its seventh cohort, this fully-funded fellowship is aimed at mid-career social change leaders from across the globe, who have 7 to 10 years of experience in challenging inequalities. Previous applicants to the programme have worked in fields such as economic and social rights, sustainability and environmental activism, tax justice and economic alternatives, women’s, minority, and disability rights, rights to education, public policy, housing and urban inequalities, labour rights, community organising, arts and culture, and peacebuilding and transitional justice.
Dr Armine Ishkanian, Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) programme and Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at LSE, said:
“The AFSEE Fellowship offers a unique opportunity for change-makers in the middle of their careers to refocus, engage in learning, develop and build skills, community and networks, and to be supported in strengthening their ability to make a significant impact in future.”
“The programme provides Fellows with the opportunity to look expansively at today’s inequalities and tomorrow’s systems change via the twin lenses of research and practice. It allows them to learn from leading scholars and practitioners working on inequalities and to also share their perspectives and experiences with academics, policymakers, and other Fellows, with the aim of creating significant, sustainable change and a more equitable world for everyone,” Dr Ishkanian concluded.
PROGRAMME DETAILS
The fellowship, which offers both Residential and Non-Residential tracks, begins with an active fellowship year that offers an intensive period of learning and skills-building carried out in LSE’s research-rich environment informed by dialogic pedagogy and co-creation.
Fellows on the Residential track spend one year in London undertaking the MSc in Inequalities and Social Science at LSE, as well as participating in the programme’s bespoke fellowship modules over the course of the year. The modules, which are led by Dr Ishkanian and AFSEE’s Programme Lead Dr Sara Camacho Felix, feature contributions from academics, practitioners, campaigners, and civil society professionals, and focus on the foundations of social and economic inequalities, policy for equity, challenging and transforming inequality, and debates around inequality.
Members of the Non-Residential track, who remain in their home countries and work contexts during the active fellowship year, develop a practice-based project and join their Residential counterparts online and in-person for the fellowship modules. After completing the programme, all Fellows join a lifelong fellowship community made up of members of all seven Atlantic Fellows programmes worldwide and receive ongoing support to learn, connect and collaborate.
Global Connections
Launched in 2017, Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity is supported by an unprecedented £64 million, 20-year grant to LSE from The Atlantic Philanthropies. It aims to build a 400-strong inspiring community of Fellows over two decades. In its first six cohorts, the programme has brought together 101 change-makers from 43 countries in Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe and North and South America. Along with the other six Atlantic Fellows programmes, Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity enables like-minded changemakers to build a global community to advance fairer, healthier, and more inclusive societies.
To increase its reach and impact, the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme has also partnered up with international organisations such as the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, COES, the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion based in Santiago, Chile, and independent international media platform openDemocracy.
Deadline: Applications for the 2023-24 programme will close at 5pm (UK time) on 12 January 2023. Start your application here.
Learn more: Download our information booklet.