TU-UW AOS DEI Exchange Program (Humanities/Social Science Majors only)

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TU-UW AOS DEI Exchange Program (Humanities/Social Science Majors only)

Aim & Purpose

TU-UW Academic Open Space (AOS) created a collaborative program for promoting education and research. We have been focusing on research and education in the fields of materials science, aerospace engineering and disaster science since we started in 2017. Since the second phase started in 2022, we have been promoting new areas such as supporting startups and enforcing DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in our program. Now we announce that we accept applications from the graduate students who major in humanities/social science for our first TU-UW AOS Exchange Program focusing on DEI.

Program Guideline

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply, you must:

  1. Be a Tohoku University graduate student who majors in humanities/social science (regardless of sex/gender and nationality).
  2. Have a research subject that is related to gender, sexuality, diversity, multiculturalism, DEI, etc. Your fieldwork activities, interviewing other researchers or stakeholders, and collecting data/resources in Seattle need to be reflected in your research.
  3. Have a presentation in Japanese and English after completing the program.
    ※We are expecting you to participate in the exchange program that will be held in the following year, which means it is ideal if you are a graduate student in Tohoku University at the time of the event.

Program Summary

  1. Program period : 5 days 3 nights
  2. Location : Seattle, WA, USA
  3. Program：You can create and propose a plan for collecting data/resources, participating in a symposium/seminar/research meeting, interviewing researchers/stakeholders, doing fieldwork, etc.
    ※Although you will receive support from AOS and DEI Center, your active participation in making a plan will be expected during coordinating a schedule with UW.
  4. In addition, AOS might propose a specific plan such as meeting the UW researchers, and we want you to participate in the proposed activities as much as you can.

Selected Applicant

One

Application Form

You need to apply from Google Form and submit all the documents below.

Google Application Form
Application FormShould be filled in English
Required Documents（１）Your research theme/summary in English (You can add a JPN version)
（２）A recommendation letter from your academic advisor (in Japanese or English)
（３）A copy of your student ID
（４）Your 3-day plan in Seattle
Attention（１）For applying for this program, you need to get an approval from your academic advisor.
（２）If more than one applicant apply from the same research office, the academic advisor needs to indicate the rank of the applicant in each recommendation letter.
（３）All the documents that you submitted will not be returned.
（４）You will be asked to submit other supplementary materials during or after the selection process as needed.
（５）If there is a significant change in your application after the selection, your selection may be canceled.
（６）One application per person

Deadline

5pm on Oct 15, 2023

Result will be announced

Around November, 2023

Contact

2-1-1 Katayama, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577
DEI Center, Tohoku University
tel：022-217-6092
e-mail：dei-center@grp.tohoku.ac.jp
website: http://dei.tohoku.ac.jp/

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