Collaborating Mentor Opportunities at SESYNC The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) seeks Collaborating Mentors interested in mentoring incoming SESYNC Postdoctoral Fellows and co-developing socio-environmental synthesis research projects with them. The mentor may be affiliated with any organization or institution. Fellows are in residence at SESYNC full- time, but are provided travel funds to interact with their mentor and attend conferences.
Fellows will use synthesis methods to address a problem arising from, or associated with, the relationship between humans and nature. Synthesis is a research approach that accelerates knowledge production by distilling or integrating existing data, ideas, theories, and/or methods to draw more reliable or generalizable conclusions and to reveal novel areas of study. Regardless of approach, fellows’ projects take advantage of existing data/information; SESYNC does not fund the collection of new field or survey data. Priority will be given to projects that have the potential to advance understanding of socio-environmental systems, but the information synthesized may be primarily social or environmental in nature, or some mix. To learn more and apply, please visit http://sesync.us/mentors2019.
