The Citizenship Lab invites applications for funding from faculty, Class of 2024, and Class of 2025 students working on or developing Signature Work (SW) projects related to citizenship.
Citizenship Lab Faculty Grants
The Citizenship Lab, part of DKU’s Humanities Research Center, invites proposals from faculty working on projects related to citizenship (broadly construed). The Lab will provide funding of up to 10,000 RMB, and the call will remain open until the available funds are exhausted. Grants may be used to cover any research expenses so long as the project involves collaboration with student researchers. Projects leading to or involving Signature Work (SW) are encouraged but not mandatory. If required, the Lab can assist in identifying students interested in conducting SW in a related field.
Applications should include an abstract-length proposal (300-500 words), a brief statement explaining the anticipated role of the student(s) in the project, and a proposed budget. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please submit your application, or any queries, to citizenshiplab@dukekunshan.edu.cn by 15 November 2023.
Citizenship Lab Student Grants
The Citizenship Lab invites Class of 2024 and Class of 2025 students working on or developing Signature Work (SW) projects related to citizenship (broadly construed) to apply for funding of up to 5,000 RMB. Grants may be used to cover any research expenses including those relating to field-based and experiential learning activities. Proposals must indicate whether you have or are seeking a mentor.
Applications should include an abstract-length proposal (300-500 words). Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Finalists may be asked to provide additional information, including a proposed budget and budget justification. Please submit your application, or any queries, to citizenshiplab@dukekunshan.edu.cn by 15 November 2023.
Addendum: Potential Research Topics
The Citizenship Lab welcomes applications on projects relating to the following topics. (This is a non-exhaustive list of topics that the Lab will consider funding.)
- Political participation or active citizenship
- Historical formation of political communities
- Extending rights beyond the human
- Environmental justice and activism
- Climate change and social justice
- Indigenous social movements
- Memory and responsibility for (in)justice
- Including future generations in present citizenship practices
- The future of citizenship
- Democratic innovations
- Digital civic participation and engagement
- Citizenship in non-democratic regimes
- Struggles for and over the rights
- Gender, racial, or class inequality
- AI, Big Data, and citizenship
- Surveillance capitalism, privacy, and freedom
- Democratizing transnational and/or global governance
- Planetary or cosmopolitan notions of citizenship
- Refugees, borders, and walls
- Home and belonging
- Global health and citizenship