(for graduate students in all years/programs)
These roles may include program administration, workshop design and facilitation, communications and outreach, research, assessment, community partnership support, and/or operations support. Applicants must be enrolled as graduate students (in any program/year) at Brown University for the academic year. Applications are now closed for the summer and academic year 2024-2025. Please check back in March 2025 for available opportunities.
Graduate Proctorship in Community-Engaged Scholarship
This one-year renewable fellowship is open to doctoral students (3rd year+) with a focus on social science research related to community engagement, higher education, community development, assessment, and/or organizational change. Applications are currently closed. Please check back in March 2025 for the academic year 2025-2026 application cycle.
Graduate students currently enrolled in a master's or doctoral degree program at Brown can apply for a Royce Graduate Student Research Award of up to $5,000 through the Swearer Center. These awards support expenses related to community-engaged research, as well as the creation of a product, analysis, or other outcome that will be shared with a community partner and/or disseminated to broader public audiences. Applications for Fall awards open in July and for Spring awards open in September. Please check UFunds for applications and award information and direct questions to [email protected].
The Swearer Center invites current Brown undergraduate and graduate students, in any concentration or field, to apply for Engaged Research Mini-Grants of up to $500. These grants support expenses related to conducting and/or presenting engaged research that involves some collaboration with community members or organizations, as well as the creation of a product, analysis, or other outcome that will be shared with the community partner and/or broader public audiences.
For more resources on engaged research, see https://www.brown.edu/academics/college/swearer/engaged-research.
Please see our CFP for detailed application information. FAQ.
AY 2024 - 2025 Grant Cycles
Fall 2024 Cycle (Funds to be used during Fall 2024)
- Applications Open: July 8, 2024 @ 9am EST
- Applications Close: September 2, 2024 @ 5pm EST
Contact
With any questions, please contact Leyna "Coco" Co, Manager of Community-Engaged Learning, at [email protected].
The Swearer Center recognizes our outstanding undergraduate and graduate students with four annual student awards.
The Engaged Scholarship Award for Graduate Students recognizes a Brown graduate student (PhD, Master’s, MD or other graduate programs) who has made community-engaged scholarship integral to their graduate experience. The award honors a graduate student whose research, teaching, and service activities exemplify the idea of community-engaged scholarship, understood as collaborative inquiry between university and community partners grounded in the values of reciprocity, mutual respect, and the co-creation of knowledge and/or creative activities.
Awardees
2024: Erin Aoyama
2023: Megan Feragne
2022: Margaret Unverzagt Goddard
2021: Jocelyn Bell and Scarlett Bergam
2020: prabhdeep singh kehal and Anar Parikh
2019: Laura Garbes
2018: Meg Caven