The Center provides many opportunities to graduate students, from
mentoring on research and career objectives, to courses,
conferences, our annual graduate student retreat, as well as
opportunities in our visiting graduate student scholar program.
The Leonard and Gretchan Broom Center for Demography at UCSB now
invites submissions for oral and poster presentations at the 2026
All-UC Demography Conference to be held on the UCSB campus, in
the afternoon on Thursday, February 26th, and all day on Friday,
February 27th.
In February 2022, the Center for Poverty & Inequality Research
participated in the UC Davis Crowfund
campaign. The goal of our campaign was to fund small
dissertation grants for PhD students studying issues related to
poverty and inequality. Thanks to the generous support of our
donors, we raised $3,500! A huge thank you to those who made
these awards possible.
We briefly describe our grantees and their research below.
The Center hosts an annual graduate student retreat attended by
faculty and students engaged in poverty research from a variety
of disciplines. Faculty provide advice and workshops on grad
school success and the career market, while students give
presentations on their dissertation work to a crowd of
enthusiastic and supportive colleagues.
Students from the departments of including Economics, Education,
Human Development, Law, Nutrition, Psychology, and Sociology are
nominated by our research affiliates to participate.
