Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (in-person at CBPS office)

Award: INR 25,000 per month stipend, plus access to office space, internet and the CBPS library. The fellowship does NOT cover housing, transportation or any other financial support. No application fee.

Duration: One year (1 August 2026 to 31 July 2027)

Deadline: 31 May 2026

One-year research fellowship at the Centre for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS), a non-partisan public policy research institution in Bengaluru, mentoring early-career researchers across CBPS's focus areas: education, gender, governance, health and nutrition, public finance, livelihoods and social security. Fellows work alongside CBPS research staff in a collegial academic environment with in-house talks, seminars, workshops and public events, joining ongoing research projects with mentor guidance. ELIGIBILITY: primarily geared toward scholars who have recently completed their Bachelor's or are in the final year of an undergraduate programme; applications especially encouraged from historically underrepresented groups (class, caste, gender, religion, linguistic affiliation, first-generation scholars); scholars from various disciplines and methodological approaches welcome. Apply by emailing a Statement of Purpose (max 1,500 words), CV/resume in MS Word format, and two letters of reference to fellows@cbps.in. Fellowship awards announced 3 July 2026.

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Location: Beijing, China (on-site engagement at PKU expected)

Award: 200,000 CNY annual stipend, paid monthly before tax. Fellows are responsible for their own income tax. No application fee.

Duration: One year, part-time, running 2026 to 2027

Deadline: 31 May 2026

Part-time research fellowship at the Berggruen Institute's Research Center at Peking University, working within one of three core themes (Frontier Science, Technology and Philosophy; Creative Futures; Ancient Wisdom and Planetary Governance), with strong overlap for AI policy, philosophy of technology and computational practice. ELIGIBILITY: open to applicants from any research background; selection is based on the proposal's fit with the Center's themes.

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Location: Fully remote; applicants must be early-career human rights professionals based in the Asia Pacific region

Award: AUD 200-400 per month depending on the fellow's location. This is a low-stipend research fellowship; the work itself is full-time over three months.

Duration: 3 months full-time, 15 June - 11 September 2026 (remote)

Deadline: 25 May 2026

Inaugural 2026 SEAP Fellowship Programme from Nationality for All (NFA) for early-career human rights professionals based in the Asia Pacific region. Two full-time, three-month remote fellows will support the updating and verification of the Second Edition of the Statelessness Encyclopedia Asia Pacific (SEAP) - a regional knowledge resource on statelessness, nationality rights, legal identity and exclusion in the Asia-Pacific region. The three sub-regions (Southeast Asia, East Asia, Central Asia) are divided between the two fellows. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: factchecking and additional desk research on existing SEAP country factsheets; updating SEAP website and report content; integrating and verifying citations across SEAP outputs. TIMELINE: Month 1 onboarding and factchecking; Month 2 website and report updates; Month 3 citation integration. ELIGIBILITY: early-career human rights professionals based in the Asia Pacific region with strong desk research, writing and organisational skills; background in human rights, law, public policy, international relations or related disciplines; knowledge of citizenship rights, statelessness and legal identity systems is desirable but not mandatory. Persons with lived experience of statelessness will be prioritised. APPLY: send CV, cover letter and one original writing sample to info@nationalityforall.org with subject line 'Application - SEAP Fellows 2026' by 25 May 2026 (EOD Bangkok time).

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