The Applied Research Fellowship Program is open for undergraduate and graduate students. The Fellowship Program supports multidisciplinary teams of students to work on real-world population health challenges. The project is in collaboration with City of Seattle. The team will consist of three graduate students and two undergraduates, with supervision by a faculty expert. The project team receives training in research skills and data collection, analysis and presentation to deliver a work product that meets the external client’s needs. The team will work closely with stakeholders at the City of Seattle to research strengths and future recommendations to support children-friendly cities. The team will combine descriptive and spatial data analysis to explore the volume and location of important daily amenities necessary for those with children – childcare facilities, transportation access, schools, laundromats and so forth – with qualitative data collection via interviews with Seattle’s constituents to better understand the needs of children and their caregivers. This research will result in recommendations of areas of improvement in Seattle’s goal of being a child-friendly city and ways child-friendliness can be monitored as time goes on. We are hosting an info session on February 26th from 11 a.m. -12 p.m. Please RSVP here.
The Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship Program is open for graduate students to start submitting applications! The Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship allows students to explore how best to deploy social enterprise models for innovations that are developed by University of Washington researchers. This is a 10-week program over the summer. Four fellows will be selected from across a variety of disciplines and investigate a range of projects. The projects are focused on finding ways to deploy social impact innovations. We are hosting an info session on Thursday, March 12th from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. for students to learn more about the opportunity. RSVP to the info session here.
For any questions, please reach out to Arti Shah at artishah@uw.edu