the CCIR Think Tank

Building a network of knowledge

About

The mission of the CCIR Think Tank is to promote public intellectual life by connecting the public with the brightest minds in academia today. Our goal is to maximize the impact of knowledge.

Supporting Researchers

The CCIR Fellowship gives early career researchers the opportunity to share their ideas and make a real impact on the public.

Sharing Knowledge

CCIR’s podcasts give academics working on cutting-edge issues a platform to engage with a broader audience

Inspiring Students

The Re:think essay competition and our Public Lecture Initiative inspire high-schoolers to engage with intellectual life by connecting them with the leading academics of today

Fellowship

Podcasts

Essay Competition

Public Lecture Initiative

the CCIR Fellowship

A fellowship for public intellectual life

Academics can often feel like they are in a trap of talking among themselves. Though the issues that they work on are often of immense significance, and yet their work fails to reach a broader audience.

The aim of this fellowship is to provide funding and support for early-career academics — to help them become public intellectuals.

Our Fellows (2021 - 2022)

Ronja Griep

University of Cambridge

Ronja Griep is a Gates Scholar and a current Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge working in feminist political philosophy. For her CCIR fellowship, she will be leading an interview series on 21st Century Body Politics, where she will discuss the politics of bodily beauty and wellness with leading academics in philosophy, the social sciences, and beyond.

Hande Guzel

University of Cambridge

Hande is a Teaching Associate in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She has earned her PhD from the same Department, where she researched re-virginisation practices in Turkey. For her CCIR Fellowship, she will focus on the well-being of students in higher education across topics such as mental health, racism, and gender.

Become a CCIR Fellow

For the 2022 – 2023 academic year we will support 10 CCIR Fellows, providing each with upwards of £750 to undertake unique public knowledge projects. With this funding, you as a CCIR Fellow are expected to bring your expertise to the public in the best forms that you see fit—whether this be recording podcasts, writing blogs, creating video essays, organizing public lectures, hosting or attending academic conferences, running public workshops, or supporting reading groups. We want to get your knowledge out there and help you make an impact.

To be eligible, you must:

be a current PhD student or recent PhD graduate within 3 years of your graduation
have an outstanding research record
exhibit a commitment to public intellectual life

If you are interested in applying for the fellowship, please send an email to admin@cambridge-research.org with a project proposal and a CV attached.

In the project proposal, please provide an abstract about the subject of the project and a short description of its format. We would love to hear about your ideas and explore our opportunities for collaboration.

Podcasts

the Ideas & Innovation Talk Series

An interdisciplinary podcast series on technology’s impact on society. We invite leading scholars from a wide-range of disciplinary perspectives to discuss the transformations brought upon society by technology innovation.

Listen Here.

21st Century Body Politics

With leading academics in philosophy, the social sciences, and beyond, CCIR Fellow Ronja Griep will be discussing recent work on the politics and philosophy of bodily beauty of wellness with leading academics.

Listen Here.

the Future of Higher Education

Cambridge sociologist and CCIR Fellow Dr. Hande Guzel explores issues of wellbeing in higher education.

Listen Here.

the Public Lecture Initiative

Public lectures by Oxbridge professors at your school

CCIR’s public lecture initiative aims to bring our partnered Oxbridge faculty to high schools around the world. Our faculty hail from a wide array of disciplines and they are all leaders of their fields, working at the cutting edge of academic research.

The aim of this initiative is to connect the leading scholars with the brightest young minds of today—to disseminate academic knowledge, inspire public discourse and debate, and to cultivate and spark the intellectual passions of our next generation of thinkers and citizens.

As a non-profit initiative, our lectures will be provided free of charge for your students. The lectures will be conducted online, via Zoom, and will be recorded and subsequently posted on CCIR’s YouTube and Apple Podcast page.

If you would like to consider including your school or university on our lecturing circuit, please schedule a meeting with our team using the Calendly portal, or email our outreach director, Oliver, at oliver@cambridge-research.org.