Currently 3 active research and journalism grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in Asia. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Every entry is funded, no exposure-only calls. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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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).
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.
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.