B Lab Research Fellowship 2024 - Call for Proposals
B Lab is the nonprofit network transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet. Building on our standards and certification process, our network leads economic systems change to support our collective vision of an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy. The growth of the B Corp movement has also been of interest to researchers, and many seek to utilize the publicly available database “B Corp Impact Data” at Data.World. This database is made available and maintained by the Insights team at B Lab Global. A large part of the data, the wider B Impact Assessment data, is not easily accessible by researchers however, given data privacy considerations. Still, this can be an invaluable source of data as over 300,000 companies have registered on the B Impact Assessment, and a large number have completed significant sections of it. On top of B Corp data, this therefore represents a large database on corporate sustainability and governance efforts (see appendix below for further description of the data). The Insights team at B Lab Global is committed to advancing research on B Corps and the B Corp Movement. After a successful first year pilot program with our amazing 2023 fellows, the Insights team would like to continue the program for its second year and invite two to three new fellows to work on new research questions. These fellows will receive support to explore their research questions using the full datasets B Lab Global has available (and following necessary data protection steps and measures - see below). In this call, B Lab is inviting scholars to submit a 2 page proposal explaining the questions they would like to explore using the wide range of B Lab data. In this first pilot, B Lab is looking to host 2-3 fellows from diverse geographies.
Submission deadline: October 31, 2024
Submission address: insights@bcorporation.net
Attachment: Call for Proposals
We aim to announce the selection of the 2-3 fellows early December 2024, with a start in January 2025.