2015 Call for Proposals: iFellows Doctoral Fellowship Program
Posted June 25, 2015
The iFellows Doctoral Fellowship Program will provide a two-year fellowship of $50,000 to selected iSchool PhD students during the 2015 – 2016 academic year to pursue independent dissertation research that supports the goals of the Coherence at Scale Program. Coherence at Scale is a broad-based program aimed at coordinating and aggregating national-scale digital projects in order to promote the development of new technology environments to support advanced scholarship across disciplines. The Coherence at Scale Program is led by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and Vanderbilt University. The School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh will serve as the administrative organization for the iFellows Program. Funding support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
$50,000 for two-year dissertation research
Fields of Study
Relevant research of prospective iFellows includes but is not limited to:
- Examination of relationships among a set of Coherence-related projects
- Theoretical investigations of models of scalable infrastructure
- Distributed open repository design, linkage, and integration
- Cross-platform workflow architectures to facilitate resource sharing and reuse
- Analysis and modeling of large domain application projects
- Domain-specific information access and analysis toolkits
- Scholarly workflow analyses, representation, capture, and reporting
- New models for dissemination and sharing of scholarly work, data, and resources
- Extensible schemes for migration from analog to digital scholarly resources
- Improved information access, analysis, presentation, and dissemination
Eligibility:
- PhD student at an iSchool member institution (see www.ischools.org)
- Completed (or will complete by December 31, 2015) all course work required to develop dissertation proposal
Application
- Two-step application process: 1) Submission of Letter of Intent by deadline, 2) Submission of Full Proposal by invitation only based on Letter of Intent
- Deadline for Letter of Intent is midnight, September 15, 2015
- For more information on eligibility, guidelines, as well as the application, please visit: www.ischool.pitt.edu/ifellows
- For information on the Coherence at Scale program, visit: coherence.clir.org
Questions? Contact Stephen Griffin: [email protected]