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As part of the Keio University Ishii-Ishibashi Fund for Education and Research Development, Keio University offers the Keio University Global Fellowship (Study Abroad Grant for Privately Financed Students). This is a scheme whereby the university provides aid to students who completed an undergraduate or graduate degree at Keio University in order to allow them to study and obtain a degree at an overseas graduate school.
The selection criteria for the fellowship include reasons for going overseas, study and/or research plan, and academic records. Students selected as Keio University Global Fellows receive up to 5,000,000 yen in financial aid for the costs incurred from studying abroad including tuition and living expenses. The purpose of this fellowship is to foster an even greater number of individuals who play an active role in the global arena with a focus on Keio's transdisciplinary initiatives (Longevity, Security, and Creativity), which are at the core of the Top Global University Project, by supporting accomplished students who are rising to the challenge of studying at an overseas graduate school.
Reports from the Keio University Global Fellows 2023 can be found below.
Akari Kobayashi
Doctoral Student of the Graduate School of Letters
Studies at: University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
I am a first-year DPhil student at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, specializing in classical reception in the late Middle Ages. My primary research interests are in the reception of Ovid's Metamorphoses in late medieval English and French literature. Specifically, my doctoral research project centers around a text called Ovide Moralisé, a fourteenth-century Old French translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, as well as its rich afterlives, and engages with the questions of gender and sexuality.
The University of Oxford's vast and diverse resources, including the expertise of world-renowned scholars, the Bodleian Library's rich manuscript holdings, and the vibrant and supportive community of fellow students, have afforded me the ideal research environment to undertake a doctoral degree. I am eternally grateful to the Keio University Global Fellowship for their generous support, without which my study at Oxford would not have been feasible.
Sho Miyazaki
Graduate of the Faculty of Law
Studies at: Stanford University (United States)
I study political economics at The Stanford Graduate School of Business as a predoctoral research fellow (predoc). My current research interests lie in the empirical analysis of voting and the electoral system using new data combined with advanced statistical and econometric methods.
Under the mentorship of Professor Andrew Hall, I am researching the governance system of DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations that operate cryptocurrencies, for example) of Web3. Collecting data from blockchain, I analyze how voting and delegation system works for institutional decision making. While it may sound in-vogue, this research, in fact, is about political representation, a part of the classical study of democracy, and one of the applications of Jitsugaku, a scientific approach in order to reveal the empirical truth, that Keio has taught me.
I would like to thank Keio for its generous support. Acknowledging that my academic career is built on my experience at Keio, I will continue studying and researching hard to become a leading scholar who can contribute to society.
Shudo Yoshiara
Graduate of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Studies at: University of California, Berkeley (United States)
I am in the Master of Development Engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley in the US. As a graduate school student, I am deepening my practical skills and knowledge in the sustainable implementation of international development projects in developing countries and fragile, low-resource regions. The main theme of my research touches on renewable energy, disaster risk reduction, climate change mitigation/adaptation strategies, and geopolitics in Pacific Island nations and African countries – both parts of the world where I used to live.
In one of the projects I am involved in this semester, I am working with an international NGO on-site in the West African country of Nigeria – along with my international classmates who possess an impressive array of diverse expertise and talents – to develop a solar-powered irrigation system, as well as the policy for its implementation, to help empower Nigeria’s rural communities.
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the Keio Global Fellowship, which is allowing me to continue studying and researching abroad, amidst the current extremely unstable situation around the world, not to mention the uncertainty in various fields at the societal level.
(Office in charge of this fellowship: Planning Section, Office of the President)
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