The School of Global Environmental Sustainability is accepting applications for its Sustainability Leadership Fellows program, which prepares future innovators and thought leaders with science communications and career development training.
The Sustainability Leadership Fellows program helps early career scientists have a greater impact, reach broader audiences and think more expansively about their work and its role in the world. This program will enhance scientists’ careers and will help them effectively communicate, collaborate and lead.
The program is open to all disciplines and colleges. The deadline to apply is March 12, 2019.
Program provides Fellows with:
- Training to effectively communicate science to the public and media
- Techniques to enhance leadership, time management and other professional skills
- Strategies for academic engagement in public and political discourse
- Skills, approaches and tactics to translate knowledge to action
- Techniques for collaboration, leading teams, building effective networks and transdisciplinary synthesis
- Membership in a growing network of motivated early career researchers from across disciplines at CSU.
Over the course of the academic year, fellows receive a series of skill-building trainings and workshops, as well as access to special events and networking opportunities.
Sustainability Leadership Fellows report improved proficiency and confidence in science communication and leadership skills as well as exposure to new tools and perspectives. The competitive program accepts 20 sustainability-oriented advanced PhD students and early career postdoctoral fellows from across campus and disciplines each year.
2019-2020 will mark the School’s ninth cohort, with 160 Fellows trained.
For more information, please contact Senior Research and Engagement Officer Aleta Weller.
