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Open Call for Faculty Affiliates - Winter 2018

The West Coast Poverty Center is pleased to announce a call for nominations for new faculty affiliates. Self nominations are appropriate and welcomed.

If you have a colleague in mind whose research in areas of poverty and/or public policy should be recognized, or would like to submit yourself as a new faculty affiliate, please submit your application to wcpc@uw.edu by February 28th, 2018. Along with name and department affiliation, please include a current CV. A description of the duties and qualifications for faculty affiliates is below.

Thank you for your help in growing our community of poverty and policy scholars.

 

Duties and Qualifications for Faculty Affiliates

The WCPC draws faculty affiliates from across campus, including the School of Social Work, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, the School of Public Health, and the College of Education. Our affiliates are UW scholars with faculty appointments whose work contributes to our understanding of poverty and public policy in the US.

Faculty Affiliates are featured on our website, invited to Center activities, and included in our dissemination activities to local and national audiences. Joining the Center as a faculty affiliate elevates the visibility of your work in poverty and anti-poverty policy to potential students, cross-campus colleagues, and community collaborators. Affiliates are eligible to apply for small grants and recommend students for our dissertation funding. Affiliates take part in Center seminars - including attending and presenting their own work - and special events as interest and schedules permit. We occasionally ask affiliates to help the Center by reviewing small grants and assisting with planning Center activities such as conferences and the seminar series. Center activities create opportunities for faculty affiliates to meet and interact with one another and with graduate students from across campus. Most importantly, faculty affiliates provide intellectual leadership for the Center, helping to define and advance poverty research, educational and outreach activities.

WCPC generally has an annual open nomination period for faculty affiliates, or relevant faculty may be invited to be an affiliate based on collaboration with the Center. If you are interested in more information, please contact Research Director Shannon Harper at wcpc@uw.edu

 

About the West Coast Poverty Center

The WCPC has three broad goals: advancing knowledge and understanding of poverty and policy issues; training the next generation of policy researchers and practitioners; and disseminating high quality research to policy makers and other practitioners. The Center was launched in 2005 as one of three regional poverty centers funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and has since garnered additional support from the university and local philanthropic community, including sustaining support from our institutional home, the UW School of Social Work. In Fall 2016 we became a founding member of the ASPE-funded Consortium of U.S. Poverty Centers (CUSPC) led by the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Activities include a regular public seminar series; occasional Flash and Dialogue publications that disseminate new research to academic and practitioner communities; a doctoral-level course on the link between research and social policy; and a series of ongoing academic/practitioner Roundtables on topics including asset-building, housing, criminal justice, and early disadvantage. WCPC small grants help launch joint faculty-practitioner research projects and doctoral student fellowships support emerging scholars. We host an annual Poverty Summit which brings together local leaders from government and the non-profit sector to focus on poverty-related research and its lessons for our region.