The Global Food Fellowship sponsors the academic and extracurricular study of food systems beyond Yale University’s campus. It offers the opportunity to bring place-based practice and participant observation into examining multiple levels of food systems.
All Global Food Fellowships should be grounded in a guiding question, which seeks to explore ideas that could overturn the ecological, social and economic deficiencies of today’s predominant food systems. Inquiries should engage critically with approach and methodology, reflect upon the student’s positioning in the research, acknowledge the context-dependency of the place and topic, and prioritize “principles over recipes” for food systems solutions.
Recipients are required to write a reflective post for Voices and present their work as a part of the YSFP’s knead 2 know series. All fellowships come with mentorship and support from YSFP staff and our extended community of friends and alumni.
Global Food Fellowship: Essay and Short Answer Questions
1) Describe your proposed project in detail. Define a guiding question or set of questions that will guide your work. Include a structure or timeline that anticipates the steps to completion and the number of hours for each step. [600-word max]
2) What academic frameworks and theories of change do you bring to exploring your guiding question(s)? Does this project connect with your academic course of study and/or career aspirations? If so, how? [200-word max]
3) Outline the relationships, support networks, and resources that will contribute to the success of your project. How did you form the relationships that are already in place? How will you form the relationships that are still being built? [200-word max]
4) What have you done, or will you do, to understand and prepare for what will be expected of you by the individuals and communities with which you will work during this project? Consider the expectations of various stakeholders within the organization or community you will be working with, and within the related academic discipline, regarding the impact and possible outcomes (positive and negative) of your proposed course of work. [200-word max]
Please complete these questions with attention to the word count and upload them as a single .pdf document.
Priority will be given to projects which:
engage with a non-Yale community partner, and works with them to ensure the project meets an identified need
allow opportunity for hands-on, embodied practice
could support a long-term sustainable food career goal
connect with a curricular interest at Yale
are place-based, contextualized, and applied in a way that is conscientious of one’s own position