Research

Policy Scholar application due November 1, 2023 (+Policy Fellows program application closed)

The +Policy Network sponsors two competitive funded research programs, typically awarding two or three fellowships per academic year. Issued early in the fall semester, funding lasts for one fiscal year. Applicants' proposals are reviewed and ranked by a group of stakeholders and affiliates based on their proposals' fit to the call, intellectual merit, interdisciplinary scope, likelihood of success and future potential for external funding. A key component of both research calls is the extent to and the ways in which the Fellow or Scholar extends policy-based thinking to new fields, new research teams, or develops new competencies that extend the applicant's doamin of expertise related to policy.

Policy Scholar RFP (click to download)

Contact Isabel Bradburn (isbrad@vt.edu) or Max Stephenson (mstephen@vt.edu) if considering applying, for list of mentors/collaborators and any proposal questions.

Due November 1, 2023 by 5 pm. Send application to Isabel Bradburn isbrad@vt.edu

Previous +Policy FELLOWS

AY 2018-2019

Maggie Cowell, Urban Affairs and Planning; Research team: Dr. John Provo, Dr. Scott Tate, Albert Alwang (Office of Economic
Development); Conaway Haskins (Virginia Cooperative Extension); Sarah Lyon Hill. Vibrant Virginia: Advancing community and economic development across urban and rural Virginia.

Suquin Ge, Economics; Research team: Divya Srinivasan, Maury Nussbaum, Nathan Lau (Industrial and Systems Engineering); Alex Leonessa, Alan Asbeck (Mechanical Engineering), & Zhou, Y. Whole-body Exoskeletons for Advanced Vocational Enhancement (WEAVE) (Policy supplement to NSF CONVERGENT grant).

Nicolas Goedert, Political Science. Research team: Robert Hildebrand (Industrial and Systems Engineering); Laurel Travis, (Business Information Technology); Peter Sforza, Matthew Pierson (Center for Geospatial Information Technology); Redistricting Analytics at Virginia Tech (RAVT).

AY 2019-2020

Theo Lim, Urban Affairs and Planning. Research team: John Fike, Ryan Stewart (School of Plant and Environmental Sciences); John Little, Sarah Fletcher (Compuer and Electrial Engineering); Quinn Thomas (Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation); (Morgan Rae Edwards, U Maryland Public Policy); Kyle Landseth (Langseth Engineering), Amanda Cuellar (B&D Engineering and Consulting LLC). Regional environmental planning and policy for bioenergy production and infrastructure: A linked water-energy-agricultural systems approach.

Todd Schenk, Urban Affairs and Planning. Research team: Jacob Barney, David Haak (School of Plant and Environmental Sciences); Scott Salom (Entomology); Bryan Brown (Biological Sciences). Advancing Invasive Species Science, Policy & Management.

AY 2020-2021

Melinda Miller, Economics & History. Collaborator: Matthew Gregg (Center for Indian Country Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis). Allotment and Individual Bank Accounts: Using Financial Records to Understand Land Dispossession.

Stella Schons, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation. Collaborator: Eric Wiseman (FREC); Understanding Incentives to Plant Trees in Urban Settings Using a Framed Field Experiment Approach.

Jennifer Lawrence, Political Science. Collaborator: C.L. Bohannon (Landscape Archiecture). Visualizing Policy: Making Chemical Governance Legible Through Deep Mapping.

AY 2021-2022

Jeffrey Alwang, Agricultural and Applied Economics. Collaborator: Brianna Posados (School of Plant and Environmental Sciences) Stakeholders: World Bank, Government of Zimbabwe. Remotely sensed data, climate change and poverty: A Zimbabwean study.

Maaz Gardezi, Sociology. Research team: Sumit Vij (University of Geneva, Sz); Ryan Stock (Northern Michigan University); Asif Ishtiaque (University of Michigan); Megan Schaefer. Responsible innovation and governance of climate smart irrigation technologies in the Hindu Kush Himalayas.

AY 2022-2023

Dayoung Kim, Engineering Education. Collaborators: Qin Zhu Eingeering Education) and Hoda Eldardiry (Computer Science).
Exploring AI Ethics Policy Concerns and Career Pathways of the AI Professionals with Policy Training Experience.

Previous Policy SCHOLARS

AY 2022-2023

Brendan David-John, Computer Science. Policy Mentor: Saul Halfon (Science, Technology and Society). Framing the Intersections of Policy with Security and Privacy in the Future of XR Technology.

News articles about +Policy Network's research

https://pamplin.vt.edu/news/2019/01/Policy-Strategic-Growth-Area-policy-fellows.html