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Blumenfeld Junior Fellowships

The Blumenfeld Fund supports up to three junior fellows each academic year (September to May). 

 

Hans Blumenfeld endowed a Franz Blumenfeld Peace Fund, in memory of his brother who died in the First World War. The Fund is dedicated to projects in peace education and research. Science for Peace, with its office in University College, University of Toronto, administers this fund.

To qualify, candidates must have completed, or be completing, their Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, achieved a high academic standing, and be interested in the work of at least one of the five working groups and research areas at Science for Peace. You can hold a Junior Fellowship while you pursue a graduate degree or are employed. Your work with Science for Peace will take only a few hours each week.

Blumenfeld Junior Fellows 2024-2025

Those selected will participate as a member of a working group, engage in event promotion or relations with university student clubs, and conduct research and writing on pertinent topics. Fellows are encouraged to create short and accessible research papers, which are rigorously refereed by mentors. Revised articles are published on our website and/or in another publication or online source. Junior Fellows are paid for each article that is accepted for publication. 

 

We invite applications, which should be sent to info@scinceforpeace.org . Your application should summarize your post-secondary education, include a transcript of academic standing, and explain how your interests coincide with the purpose of one of our working or research groups: nuclear weapons and their abolition, militarism and climate change, nonviolent action, critical studies of NATO, and freedom of scientific work and exchange.

 

Applications will be accepted until June 30th. The BJFs begin in September.

Blumenfeld Junior Fellows 2022-2023

Blumenfeld Junior Fellows 2023-2024

"Being a Junior Fellow at Science for Peace this past year has been a fantastic opportunity, as well as a tremendous learning experience. This was precisely the kind of opportunity that evaded me during my undergraduate studies, and has allowed me to further develop many of my academic and professional skills (namely research, writing and analysis). Furthermore, being a Junior Fellow has allowed me to collaborate with many brilliant, talented and passionate members and academics within an ideological perspective that has increasingly been lacking in our public discourse- pacifism".​

Boris Kyrychenko (2022-2023)

"Being a Blumenfeld Junior Fellow has taught me a lot about the solutions needed to make our world a safer one. As a non-Canadian student, it has been really insightful comparing Canadian environmental policy and activism with the UK’s. Working with the NVWG has taught me a great deal about non-militaristic methods of defence which can be used to greatly reduce the risk of large-scale wars or nuclear fallout".

Alfie Hoar (2022-2023)

As a second-year physics undergrad at the University of Toronto, Walter Dorn was mentored by Science for Peace's professors. The experience led him to become an expert on peacekeeping technologies with the United Nations.

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