(for graduate students in all years/programs)
These roles may include program administration, workshop design and facilitation, communications and outreach, research, assessment, community partnership support, and/or operations support. Applicants must be enrolled as graduate students (in any program/year) at Brown University for the academic year. Applications are now open for the summer and academic year 2024-2025 for the following positions with a deadline of Monday, April 15, 2024:
- Swearer Center Campus Partnerships Graduate Assistant
- Swearer Center Campus Partnerships Data & Evaluation Graduate Assistant
- Swearer Center Community-Based Learning and Research (CBLR) Fellowship Graduate Assistant
- Swearer Center Community-Engaged Learning Graduate Assistant
- Swearer Center Community-Engaged Research Graduate Assistant
- Swearer Center Community Partnership Graduate Assistant
Graduate Proctorship in Community-Engaged Scholarship
This one-year renewable fellowship is open to doctoral students (3rd year+) with a focus on social science research related to community engagement, higher education, community development, assessment, and/or organizational change. Applications are now open for the 2024/2025 academic year, and are due on May 6, 2024, by 5:00 pm EST.
Graduate students currently enrolled in a master's or doctoral degree program at Brown can apply for a Royce Graduate Student Research Award of up to $5,000 through the Swearer Center. These awards support expenses related to community-engaged research, as well as the creation of a product, analysis, or other outcome that will be shared with a community partner and/or disseminated to broader public audiences. Applications for Fall awards open in January and for Spring awards open in September. Please check UFunds for applications and award information and direct questions to [email protected].
The Swearer Center recognizes our outstanding undergraduate and graduate students with four annual student awards.
The Engaged Scholarship Award for Graduate Students recognizes a Brown graduate student (PhD, Master’s, MD or other graduate programs) who has made community-engaged scholarship integral to their graduate experience. The award honors a graduate student whose research, teaching, and service activities exemplify the idea of community-engaged scholarship, understood as collaborative inquiry between university and community partners grounded in the values of reciprocity, mutual respect, and the co-creation of knowledge and/or creative activities.
Awardees
2022: Margaret Unverzagt Goddard
2021: Jocelyn Bell and Scarlett Bergam
2020: prabhdeep singh kehal and Anar Parikh
2019: Laura Garbes
2018: Meg Caven