Good Science Project–Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing Fellowship 2025 (up to $5,000) Deadline: 15 November, 2024

Applications are open for the Good Science Project–Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing Fellowship 2025. Each year, the United States government spends billions of dollars to support scientific research. How that money is distributed has an enormous influence on how science in this country is practiced—and how science is practiced makes a difference in all of our lives.

The Good Science Project–Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing Fellowship aims to improve science journalism and science itself by providing reporting grants for feature-length magazine articles on the funding and practice of science in the United States. Grants will support articles that reveal flaws in current science policy, practice, or funding and identify ways these challenges might be overcome.

Areas of Interest

• Obstacles that prevent high-impact scientific ideas from receiving funding.
• The role of government funding in incentivizing scientists to share data and arrive at accurate, reproducible findings.
• The challenge of recruiting more talent to biomedical scientific research and the role of scientific funding in addressing this challenge.
• The influence of bureaucratic requirements on the daily life of scientists.
• Obstacles presented by groupthink and the difficulties of obtaining funding for research that challenges a dominant paradigm.
• The attributes of high-quality research and how we might avoid wasting resources on low-quality research.

Grant

• A grant of $5,000 will be awarded to selected applicant.

Eligibility

• Open to journalists of all nationalities, representing a diversity of backgrounds.
• Articles must be completed within six months of receiving a grant, regardless of publication status, and should be at least 3,000 words long.
• Full-time journalists may apply for grants but should explain how a grant will make it possible to cover a story that their publication would not otherwise cover. International applicants are welcome to apply, but proposed articles should address scientific funding in the United States.

Application

The deadline to submit an application is 11:59 p.m. ET on November 15, 2024.

To apply, email goodscience@jh.edu with the following items attached as PDF documents:

• A well-researched story pitch of 1,000 words or less that includes a brief explanation of your qualifications to cover the story
• A resume that includes your name, email address, phone number, and mailing address
• Two samples of published work that demonstrate your ability to research and report a magazine feature article (Applicants who do not have two samples of published work may submit a letter explaining why they believe they are qualified to write the article.)

For more information, visit Science Writing Fellowship.