Opportunities for BU Alumni and Post Doctoral Fellows
Are you an alumni or a post doctoral fellow with BU Arts & Sciences studying social science? Take a look at our opportunities to enhance your research and post education options.
Check back here for our full roster of opportunities open to graduate students.
Job Opportunities
Spring 2025 Opportunities
BU Inclusion Catalyst Grants Sparking Community Inclusion Catalyst Grants support collaborative and creative programs and initiatives that generate learning and stimulate efforts that foster inclusive and equitable communities at Boston University. The Inclusion Catalyst Grants program provides up to $1,000 to Boston University students, faculty, and staff who require financial support to realize their creative programs and initiatives fully.
How to Apply
Please complete the form below to request partnership on programming for the ’24-’25 academic year.
🗓️ Application Deadline: on a rolling basis until Friday, May 2, 2025.
All funds must be used by May 31, 2025.
Posted 10/4/24
Gerda Henkel Stiftung Forced Migration To support internationally oriented, multidimensional research on forced migration. Proposals that incorporate intersectional perspectives and issues are highly desirable, and cooperation with local knowledge-producers, including people with lived experience of displacement in countries of origin or asylum, researchers and civil society actors (particularly in the “Global South”), is strongly encouraged. Projects should focus on theoretical and practical questions, particularly within the following research areas: (i) Forced migration infrastructures, (ii) South-South (im)mobilities, (iii) Multiple displacements, (iv) Displaced people’s agency, and (iv) (Supra-)state influences on displacement processes.
Funding: up to $96,000 stipend over 2 years, no IDC.
· Faculty Awards: €3,720 ($4,000)/month
· Postdoctoral Awards: €2,760 ($3,000)/month
· PhD Awards: €1,920 ($2,000)/month
Additional funding is available for children and additional travel and material aid provided as needed.
🗓️ Application Deadline: May 5, 2025
Posted 12/6/24
Gerda Henkel Stiftung General Research Grants
Purpose: To support research projects within the fields of archaeology, history of art, historical Islamic studies, history, history of law, history of science, prehistory, and early history.
Eligibility: Applications may be made by postdoctoral candidates or scholars with postdoctoral lecture qualification. Postdoctoral researchers must have received their PhD within the last 10 years. Dissertation must have already been published at the time the application is made, and the topic of the proposed research project must clearly differ from the topic of the PhD thesis. Any prior Gerda Henkel Foundation must have been granted at least 5 years earlier.
Funding: up to $96,000 stipend over 2 years, no IDC.
· Faculty Awards: €3,720 ($4,000)/month
· Postdoctoral Awards: €2,760 ($3,000)/month
Additional funding is available for children and additional travel and material aid provided as needed.
🗓️ Application Deadline: May 26, 2025
Posted 12/6/24
Summer 2025 Opportunities
NEW Esperantic Studies Foundation Marjorie Boulton Fellowships
- Applicants must be admitted to candidacy for a research doctoral degree at an accredited university.
- Research project must contribute significantly to the field.
- Applicants must be no more than five years beyond receiving their Ph.D.
- Must propose an original, significant research project (either an extension of the dissertation or a new research program).
Rolling Deadlines
Social Science Research Council Program: Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowships
Purpose: To support post-doctoral fellows conducting policy-relevant causal research to develop and evaluate cost-effective, scalable policy solutions that improve the effectiveness and equity of criminal justice practices in the U.S.
Eligibility:
Funding: $240,000 over 2 years, plus a $30,000 supplement for benefits, research expenses, and travel.
🗓️ Application Deadline: Rolling; Fellowship begins in September 2025.
If you have reviewed the Crowdfunding Policy and believe BU Crowdfunding is right for your project, please submit an application below. The Application Details section provides an outline of what is needed to submit a project.
Need more info before applying? Review the posts in our application phase category for helpful resources before submitting a project.
🗓️ Application Deadline: Rolling
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Other Supports
Faculty & Staff Community Networks
Faculty & Staff Community Networks (FSCNs), or employee resource groups (see list below), are identity-based organizations led by BU faculty and staff with the goals of building connections and fostering a sense of belonging among their respective community members and allies. The overarching mission: to catalyze a deeper sense of unity among individuals from underrepresented communities and their allies and to ensure that the University remains an institution where differences are understood to be a source of mutual power, insight, and effectiveness. As such, our FSCNs are open to all members of the communities they serve (and their allies). The missions of FSCNs cannot be designed to advance specific political viewpoints or ideologies.
- Faculty & Staff of Color Alliance
- First-Gen Faculty & Staff Community Network
- Jewish and Israeli Faculty & Staff Community Network
- LGBTQIA+ Faculty & Staff Community Network
- Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian Alliance
- Staff and Faculty Extend Boston University Disability Support (SAFEBUDS)
Any BU faculty or staff member can start a new FSCN! Click here to learn more about our existing communities or to express interest in starting a new FSCN.
Click here to view all upcoming FSCN events.
Free Mental Health Screening The Chief Health Office, in collaboration with Student Health Services and Employee Wellness, invite students, staff, and faculty to take a free, on-line, mental health screening. This depression and anxiety screening takes just two minutes to complete. We encourage you to take the anonymous online screening that shares feedback and resources. Take the online screening.
IS&T Instructor-Led Training Opportunities: In Person & Online IS&T is offering training courses that cover a variety of topics that will help you reach your goals. We are happy to announce that some trainings are being offered in-person again in addition to the virtual trainings. Secure your spot in a class by signing up through our training website today!! View our full list of instructor led trainings or browse our calendar of offerings and signup for a training., including: BUworks, Educational Technology (Adobe, Blackboard, Qualtrics, etc.), Research Computing (Python, MATLAB, R, Stata, etc.), WordPress/Website