The Center seeks applications from affiliated faculty researchers who are interested in hiring a GSR (up to 50% time) for Winter and/or Spring 2013.  The Center anticipates providing up to four graduate students with research assistant positions.  Receipt of research assistance funds is contingent on agreement by the affiliated faculty member to write a two page policy brief in collaboration with the research assistant, to be disseminated by the Center.

The Center seeks applications from faculty affiliates who are conducting research related to our core research areas:

• Labor markets and poverty
• The non-cash safety net, broadly construed to include education and health policies
• Children and the intergenerational transmission of poverty
• Immigration and Poverty, especially in connection with the above three areas

Terms of the graduate research fellowship

By the end of spring quarter, the supervising faculty will, in collaboration with the GSR, write and submit a two page policy brief.  The policy brief will be a summary of the faculty member’s own poverty-related research (preferably the project for which the graduate student research assistant is hired), aimed at a general audience.  All briefs will be disseminated by the Center.  Examples of existing policy briefs are currently available on our website, and all future briefs are expected to follow a similar format. Guidance is available.

Due to limited funding available, eligibility extends only to resident graduate students and only to academic program graduate students (not professional school students).

Selection Criteria

Applications will be evaluated by an interdisciplinary group of senior scholars affiliated with the Center for Poverty Research.  Proposals will be evaluated on several factors, including:

• The project’s relevance to the Center’s core research areas;
• The student’s academic achievement;
• The student’s seniority—we are particularly interested in funding students who are at an early stage of their graduate career.

Application Instructions

The application must be initiated by an affiliated faculty member. Only applications in which a particular graduate student is identified as the potential GSR for an affiliated faculty will  be considered.  Proposals must be received by 5 PM on November 2, 2012. Please use the online application link at the bottom of this page to complete and submit the following elements:

1. A complete webform application, which includes the 250 word description of the anticipated research project, and 1) how it links to least one of the Center’s core research themes, and 2) a description of the project specific tasks that the research assistant will be engaged in.
2. Student’s academic transcript (unofficial is sufficient).

Go to the webform application