Harvard University Program on Survey Research

Subject: PROFESSOR ROBERT PUTNAM SEEKS POST-DOCS AND/OR QUANTITATIVE
R.A FOR INTERESTING PROJECTS ON SOCIAL RELIGION AND EQUALITY

Prof. Robert D. Putnam seeks 1-2 skilled quantitative R.A.s and 1-2
able Post-Docs for various large applied research projects:

The topics include

(a) The changing role of religion in American communities;
(b) A comparison of the role of religion in the US, the UK, and Ireland;
(c) Trends in American social inequality, especially among youth, over
the last half century; and

TESS is an NSF-funded infrastructure project called Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) that offers researchers opportunities to test their experimental ideas on large, diverse, randomly-selected subject populations.
Submit proposals on the website.

Opportunities to Earn and Learn in the Student Career Experience Program:

• Positions in related field of study
• Salary based on education and experience
• Duty location: Suitland, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, D.C.)
• Applications currently accepted

Positions Available:

Kids Survey Network (KSN) is a major educational research and development project funded by the National Science Foundation. KSN’s educational mission is to promote data literacy, engaging young people in the power and interest of inquiry and reasoningwith data, and preparing them for responsible and successful use of data in citizenshipand work. More broadly, KSN represents a new kind of learning environment—an “apprenticeship network”—that aims for an improved synthesis of depth, rigor, and enjoyment in informal learning.

The Joint Program in Survey Methods at the University of Maryland offers a summer fellowship to undergraduates interested in a career in survey methods.

The fellowship, located in Washington DC, provides a job at a federal statistical agency, courses and training, housing, and a stipend.  The deadline for applications is December 1, 2008.

http://www.jpsm.umd.edu/fellows/