The GradFirst Fellowship (GFF) provides two graduate students with research opportunities for hands-on experience working with faculty members seeking research assistance over the academic year. The GFF gives students a unique opportunity to use their technical and analytical prowess to contribute to a range of faculty projects while also building real-world skills and competencies with the support and guidance from a faculty mentor in the Faculty Scholarship Collaborative (FSC). The GFF will be supervised by FSC faculty mentor and will be expected to meet weekly with their faculty mentor.
Fellows will be called upon to support faculty research identified by the FSC. Depending on the Fellow’s skill set, such research assistance may include conducting literature reviews; doing data collection, cleaning and coding; conducting demographic and neighborhood analyses; performing quantitative or qualitative data analysis; doing program evaluation; or mapping. Fellows will be assigned to work on these requests and produce deliverables to share with and present to the faculty member. Fellows will also be expected to attend weekly meetings with their GFF mentor, periodic trainings and 1-2 quarterly Urban Collaborative events per academic quarter.
Students must be enrolled in a College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences graduate program, with priority given to areas of study that comprise the Urban Collaborative and its affiliated units: Nonprofit Management, Public Administration, Public Policy, Public Service, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Social Work, Sociology, and Sustainable Urban Development.