Call for Fellow Nominations for the AIED DEIA Mentoring Fellowships 

(Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility)

AIED Society is providing “AIED DEIA Mentoring Fellowship” to encourage greater participation from academics and researchers from communities that are currently underrepresented in AIED conferences and the AIED community.

The underrepresented communities include but are not limited to:

• Countries with limited historical participation in AIED, especially those in Asia, Africa, Central America and South America.

• Minority groups, such as ethnic minorities, gender and sexual minorities, religious minorities.

• Groups with functional diversity or special needs.

• Indigenous people.

Nomination: Nominations are being solicited from members of underrepresented groups as defined above.

• The nominations could be self-nominations or nominations by AIED researchers who are already working with potential nominees from underrepresented groups.

• The nomination package should include:

  1. a portfolio of the work done to date, 

  2. a proposal for the work to be done during the AIED DEIA Mentoring Fellowship, 

  3. a CV, and 

  4. optionally, a list of up to 3 possible mentors that the nominee would like to work with during the fellowship.

• Nominations should be sent by email to Amruth Kumar (amruth@ramapo.edu) and Vania Dimitrova (V.G.Dimitrova@leeds.ac.uk) with the subject heading “AIED DEIA Mentoring Fellowship”.

Selection of Fellows: Up to 5 Fellows will be selected based on their nomination package and participation in an AIED 2024 training workshop. Each selected Fellow will work with an AIED mentor for a year.

Mentoring of Fellows: 

• The Fellow nominees will be invited to attend an online training workshop during AIED 2024, where research methodologies will be discussed and potential mentors will be introduced.

• Throughout the year following the AIED 2024 conference, Fellowship awardees will meet with their mentors regularly once a month to flesh out their research and report progress.

• Fellowship awardees will be expected to submit a paper or poster co-authored with their mentor to AIED 2025. AIED 2025 registration fees will be waived for Fellows who submit their work to the conference.

• If the submission is accepted for presentation, the Fellow will also be awarded US $ 1,000 towards travel costs. They will be expected to attend the AIED 2025 conference in person and assist conference organization for up to 5 hours during the conference.

• If the submission is not accepted for presentation, if AIED 2025 is held in hybrid mode, the Fellow will be invited to attend the conference online.