National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility Early-Career Mentoring Institute

Application period now closed for 2024.

The application period for the the 2024 National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility Early-Career Mentoring Institute (ECMI), supported by the National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families, together with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) and the University of California, Davis’s Center for Poverty & Inequality Research (CPIR), has ended. Accepted applicants will be notified in early march. This weeklong convening, held in Davis, California, will provide valuable mentoring and career development opportunities to poverty and social mobility scholars who are in the early stages of their research careers and who have the potential for leadership in supporting members of populations that are underrepresented among academic researchers. Up to 15 scholars will be selected. Of these, the Center will support up to three scholars whose research focuses on Hispanic populations.

The Institute will address a wide range of mentoring and professional development topics, such as:

  • Becoming an Effective Mentor
  • Key topics in human services research
  • Building and Managing a Research Team
  • Developing Effective Writing Habits
  • Engaging with Media, Community Organizations, and Lawmakers
  • Grant Writing Strategies
  • Including participant voice in research
  • Studying hard-to-reach populations
  • Conducting policy relevant research
  • Incorporating a racial equity lens in research
  • Secondary data sources: promises and pitfalls

 

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