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The 2021-22 Working Through Upheaval: Leadership for a Diverse Society Grant is an 18-month award that supports UC PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences interested in substantively engaging with PhD alumni around issues and questions pertaining to leadership in the 21st-century. Not your traditional leadership program, this grant will foster a cohort of doctoral students in conversation with PhD alumni and others in order to explore leadership-based professional development within a higher education-specific frame.
We have great need for thoughtful leaders with vision and reach, comprehension and compassion. Those who are members of the communities and organizations they help to galvanize, can respond critically and effectively to crises, as well as opportunities, in ways that build upon and respond to the heterogeneous histories, languages, and perspectives of our society and institutional structures inhabited. UCHRI’s Working Through Upheaval: Leadership for a Diverse Society Initiative identifies three distinct, interrelated work-focused areas of California’s economy: technology, government, and the university. These spaces, both distinct and interactive, provide the grounds to examine and imagine models of leadership that humanize the impact these systems have on the lives of people. At a moment when the dangerous fallout of violent systems are all too clear for everyone to see, it is imperative that we develop both counter- and alternative modes of thinking and acting in an uncertain world, where qualities like decisiveness and an attunement to the needs of the most vulnerable can (and must) go hand-in-hand. By engaging directly with PhD alumni, faculty, and others working in key sectors of the California economy, this Initiative addresses how systems, and the imperative to humanize them, shape models of leadership.
Eligible Applicants: UC PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences
Maximum Award: Up to $750
Application Deadline: Monday, April 5, 2021
Award Announced (Expected): May 2021
Funding Source: UCHRI/UCOP
Final awards for all of our grants are contingent upon available funding. Funding must be spent in accordance with all applicable UC rules and regulations.
Applications must be submitted online via Submittable by 11:59 PM (Pacific time) on the deadline date.
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